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GoDoFX, a brokerage in the UAE, has selected Integral MarginFX to support the growth of its FX and CFD business.
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Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy hedge fund vehicle is flat for the first half of the year, after June brought trend reversals in currencies, bonds and gold, and sharp rotations across equities, leading to losses in several of its underlying funds.
Professional investors are forecasting a surge in commodities trading over the next 12 months as the so-called commodity supercycle takes effect, new global research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross shows.
Its research among professional investors around the world responsible for around $380 billion in assets under management, found 84 per cent expect the level of trading in commodities to increase in the year ahead with 29 per cent forecasting a substantial increase.
A key driver is that 81 per cent of them believe markets are entering a commodity supercycle where commodities trade above their long-term price trend for decades-long periods,
The latest edition of the AIMA Hedge Fund Confidence Index (HFCI) – a global index that measures confidence hedge funds have in the economic prospects over the next 12 months – reveals that the average measure of confidence has risen to +19.5, up from an average of +18.4 in Q1.
Based on a survey of more than 300 hedge funds accounting for approximately USD1 trillion in assets, respondents are asked to choose from a range of -50 to +50, where +50 indicates the highest possible level of economic confidence over the next 12 months.
More than 90 per cent of funds
Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange space, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms of USD51.0 billion in June 2021.
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group has reported its Q2 and June 2021 market statistics, showing it reached average daily volume (ADV) of 18.4 million contracts for both the second quarter and the month of June.
According to CME Group’s latest figures, overall ADV increased 5 per cent, while interest rate futures and options volume rose by 25 per cent, including: Record SOFR futures ADV of 118K, an increase of more than 200 per cent, and a 19 per cent increase in interest rate options.
CME Group also saw record bitcoin futures and options ADV of 26,575 contracts, as well as record
BlackRock has launched the Systematic Multi-Strategy ESG Screened Fund (the Fund), its first single-manager multi-strategy liquid alternatives UCITS fund with daily liquidity in Europe.
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Quantology Capital Management, a Paris-based systematic long/short equity-focused hedge fund firm, has launched a new strategy, Quantology US Equity.
The new fund aims to outperform the Nasdaq 100 Index, described by Quantology as “the best performer and the hardest index to outperform over the last 10 years.”
The launch comes as the firm’s Quantology Absolute Return strategy ended the first half of 2021 in negative territory, down just over 1 per cent having lost 0.5 per cent in June.
In a strategy update, Quantology said its flagship systematic long/short US-focused market neutral equity hedge fund, which trades Nasdaq and NYSE-listed
Value investment boutique Oldfield Partners (OP) has appointed Tom Underhill, with responsibility for UK business development across the wholesale and institutional channels.
Alongside working with both clients and prospective investors, Underhill will be helping OP expand their reach within the UK intermediary space.
Underhill’s appointment reflects OP’s focus on introducing its contrarian, Value-oriented global equity strategies to a wide range of UK investors.
Underhill was previously Head of Discretionary at Artemis Investment Management and has over twenty years asset management experience focused on intermediary clients in the UK, Channel Islands and Dublin.
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