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Dalzell Trading has entered into a joint marketing and research payment agreement with Unicus Research.
Unicus Research is an investment research firm dedicated to providing asset managers proprietary and custom research strategies. Dalzell Trading is an outsourced equity and options trading firm that will facilitate the efficient payment for research strategies from Unicus Research.
David Dalzell, founder and CEO of Dalzell Trading, says: “We are thrilled that Laks Ganapathi and her team at Unicus Research have partnered with us to provide best-in-class services to asset managers. Dalzell Trading will provide Unicus clients with a professional trading desk dedicated to streamlining
More non-equity hedge funds are offering founder share classes in a bid to attract capital and get new launches off the ground.
Leeds Equity Partners (Leeds Equity), a New York-based private equity firm, is investing in OptionMetrics, an options and futures database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide.
Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
The longstanding Chief Risk Officer of European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC), Dr Thomas Siegl, will leave the company at the end of April 2021 after his appointment expires. Siegl did not seek an extension of his contract for personal reasons.
Austrian-born Siegl was appointed to the ECC Executive Board on 1 May 2010 and has been responsible for risk controlling and risk management at the clearing house since that time.
Peter Reitz, Chief Executive Officer of ECC, says: “During his time on the Management Board, Thomas Siegl has made a considerable contribution in establishing and further developing the risk management
While investors pulled USD9.36 billion from the global hedge fund sector in March, quarterly flows remained positive, at +USD17.68 billion, according to the just-released March 2021 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report.
Hedge funds’ strong performance so far this year, which has sparked renewed interest in the business among some investors, also added to overall assets under management (AUM), increasing total hedge fund business AUM to USD3.417 trillion at the end of Q1.
“The theme of broadly distributed inflows we’ve seen in previous months this year slowed in March, with the overall proportion of funds with inflows in March
Qontigo, an investment intelligence specialist and provider of banalytics and indices, and Siepe, a provider of technology, data and analytics solutions, have entered into an exclusive partnership to launch Axioma Risk: Elements, a pre-defined selection of data analytics from the Axioma Risk risk management platform.
Siepe will be offering clients a bespoke configuration of risk analytics across multiple asset classes, with Axioma Risk: Elements providing an entry point for hedge funds, asset managers and other fund managers to integrate a fixed set of fundamental statistics, stress tests and risk settings from the more comprehensive, cloud-native Axioma Risk enterprise software. In
A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom and Deribit, offers insights into how proprietary trading firms are approaching the cryptocurrency markets, both spot and derivatives.
The survey also explores how this differs between those firms created specifically to trade these assets vs firms entering these markets alongside their existing business trading “traditional” assets.
Proprietary trading firms have been early adopters of crypto derivatives:
81 per cent of those already trading crypto derivatives do so alongside the spot market.
Some 40 per cent began trading spot before moving onto derivatives, 32 per cent started with derivatives and
Versor Investments, a quantitative investment management firm focused on alternative investment strategies, has published a new white paper titled “The Environment for Merger Arbitrage: 2021.”
The paper is co-authored by Versor Founding Partners Deepak Gurnani and Ludger Hentschel who have over 40 years of combined experience in quantitative investing and research. This paper follows Versor’s previous release in February of a white paper titled “Global Macro: Portfolio Diversification for Turbulent Times.”
The new paper, which looks at merger arbitrage trends over the past 18 years, provides perspective on the attractiveness of the current merger market environment. The paper also examines
IOWArocks, the global marketplace for data, tech, and services, has added First To Invest to its established data marketplace.
First To Invest use big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events on public, private companies, and specific topics from news articles, press releases, and financial social media. They cover 10,000 companies globally with 400 corporate event categories including; M&A, new deals, partnerships, ESG, regulatory decisions, management and stakeholder changes, expansions to new markets or product categories, new products, price changes, new agreements, FDA decisions, financial reports related events, macroeconomics, and much more.
Jordan Mizrahi, First To Invest
On the back of impressive performance in 2020, this is the time for hedge fund managers to seize the moment and build on the momentum, and growing investor appetite in the asset class.
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