Capstone Investment Advisors, the global volatility and derivatives-focused hedge fund, believes the lack of volatility both in the US election polls and president Donald Trump’s personal approval ratings suggests Democrat challenger Joe Biden is on course to win the 3 November election.

Oyster BM Alternativos – an alternative UCITS fund of funds launched a year ago by SYZ Capital with Spain’s Banca March, and led by hedge fund industry veteran Cédric Vuignier – has weathered 2020’s turbulence to grow its assets to EUR100 million (USD118.1 million), making gains in Japanese and convertible arbitrage-focused positions.

By Joshua D Kestler, Global Head of HedgeMark, BNY Mellon – In the 12 years since the 2008 financial crisis, many large institutional investors have adopted Dedicated Managed Account (DMA) structures in order to address the challenges in commingled hedge funds that were exposed during the crisis. These investors were well-prepared to more effectively manage their portfolios through the market volatility which has resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic while eliminating many of the structural risks that can be exacerbated during a crisis scenario.

Accelerate Financial Technologies' (Accelerate) suite of institutional-calibre alternative ETFs, inclduing the Accelerate Absolute Return Hedge Fund (HDGE) and Accelerate Arbitrage Fund (ARB), have been added to the RBC Dominion Securities A+ platform.

A&A Investment Adviser's Luxembourg’s entity has agreed to terms with an Asset Management Firm to acquire an Irish ICAV, which it says will be one of the most innovative launch platforms for quantitative sub-funds in UCIT's format in the European market.

FEG Investment Advisors (FEG), an independent investment consulting and OCIO firm, has selected Diligend, a provider of investment management software, to automate and digitalise the collection of manager data and documents in its operational due diligence (ODD) of investment managers across public and private markets and hedge funds.

Huobi Futures has announced its latest offering that looks to take advantage of the ever-growing and popularising stablecoin market, USDT-Margined Swaps. 

Alma Capital Investment Management has signed an agreement with Rothschild & Co Asset Management Europe to take over the InRIS alternative UCITS platform. 

Global multi-asset manager Fulcrum Asset Management has hired Filippo Cartiglia, former chief international economist at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, as a senior member of its investment team.

US long/short equity hedge funds are said to be “cautiously” positioning their portfolios on a Joe Biden victory in next week’s US presidential election.