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UCITS hedge funds delivered on their pledge of portfolio diversification during the coronavirus-fuelled market meltdown this year, and investors should now consider putting more of their money into the sector to seize on continued market dislocations, Lyxor Asset Management says.
A new Lyxor study led by Bernadette Busquere Arnal, European head of hedge fund research, and Nathanael Benzaken, chief client officer, forecasts further growth in alternative UCITS, after the sector outflanked broader market indices during the Covid-19 crash in March.
The commentary also suggested the pandemic is further driving sustainable investment trends among UCITS hedge funds.
While the HFRI Liquid
A new company, LedgerEdge, has been launched by David E Rutter with the aim of building an ecosystem for the interchange of data and assets in the corporate bond market.
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By Xavier Parain (pictured), CEO, FundRock Management Company – The impact of Covid-19 has altered the mechanics of almost every profession, and the fund management is no different. Here are four things that we have learnt about the way that fund managers have mitigated systemic risk during the crisis and slowed the spread of market contagion.
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published two memos on alternative risk premia (aka dynamic beta) investing focusing on Backtesting and Broker Dealer Practices.
FlexTrade Systems (FlexTrade), a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems has announced direct availability of Liquidnet Targeted Invitations in its multi-asset trading blotter for equities.The functionality provides traders with targeted natural liquidity from other Liquidnet buy-side members and selected brokers, directly into the parent order blotter. With a minimum order size of 3 x LIS for EMEA equities, 25k shares/15 per cent ADV in Americas, and USD1.5M/25 per cent ADV in APAC, and an average execution size of about USD1.8 million, this quick availability of this actionable liquidity is critical for achieving Best Execution. Traders can access the
Digital asset trading, research and data company Brave New Coin has agreed a multi-year partnership with Toronto Futures Options Swaps Exchange tFOSE, a new Canadian-based derivatives exchange and clearinghouse currently seeking regulatory approval in Canada. Brave New Coin will design, calculate and administer a suite of cryptocurrency indices to power cash-settled options trading on tFOSE.
Following the successful launch of perpetual swaps in Q2 of this year, Huobi Futures will be aiming to launch bitcoin options trading in Q3. Bitcoin options are a form of financial derivative that gives the trader the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell Bitcoin at a specific price at a certain date of expiry.
Huobi Futures will be offering these Options contracts in the European style which means that the buyer of the Option can only be exercised at the expiration. The Options contracts will, at first, only be available for Bitcoin.
Huobi Global is committed to enriching
CoinDesk, a blockchain and cryptocurrency news and information platform, has launched its Research Hub, a point of connection for the broader investor audience to access research on digital assets and markets. “It’s about helping our audience by showing them a wider range of quality research than just what CoinDesk produces, and helping the industry by sharing others’ work more widely. If the sector has a diverse range of research that gets in front of an audience eager for information, then everybody wins,” says Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk’s Director of Research.
The Research Hub will go beyond CoinDesk’s own reporting on the digital
Triad Securities Corp, a full-service, agency-only brokerage firm, has issued its Q2 2020 Quarterly Snapshot on US IPOs and secondary offerings.Published in conjunction with Argus Research, the report provides ECM (equity capital market) trends along with tables showing the performance of the largest Q2 2020 IPOs, the most promising upcoming IPO candidates, the top 20 Unicorns and top 20 underwriter performance.
In the second quarter, the IPO and Secondary market roared back to life, with the total number of IPOs (46) exceeding those from Q1. High-quality companies came public in Q2 and the ratio of positive issue-opens to negative-issue opens
Graham Capital Management, the long-running US quant hedge fund manager, is launching its multi-asset diversified quant strategy, the Graham Quant Macro fund, on Lombard Odier’s PrivilEdge UCITS fund platform.
