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Exchange Data International (EDI)m a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data services, has launched a flexible volatility dataset series. The buy-side, sell-side and their service providers have been prompted to take advantage of opportunities in the markets and recalibrate pricing and risk models in order to properly value and hedge portfolios due to last week’s significant volatility across the global financial markets.
Jonathan Bloch, CEO of EDI, says: ”We have pulled together volatility data from across asset classes so that professional investors can receive a holistic view of what is happening in the financial markets. Volatile markets
Alpha Sigma Capital (ASC), a new blockchain investment and digital currency hedge fund, officially launched on 6 January, 2020, with a focus on delivering growth capital to blockchain companies with a multi-strategy hedge fund that utilises tokens, cryptocurrencies, equities, derivatives, and private investments. Founded by Enzo Villani and Michael Onghai, two serial entrepreneurs with extensive experience in private equity, public equities, M&A and portfolio management came together to fill a need in the market that allows institutional investors to invest in digital assets via a professionally structured fund that deems liquidity and proven success as key investment criteria. Hedging allows the
Brummer & Partners, the long-running Swedish multi-strategy hedge fund firm, is maintaining its market neutral approach and focus on diversification after its flagship strategy stumbled during the recent steep market sell-off.
In a note to investors this week, founder Patrik Brummer and Mikael Spångberg, CEO and portfolio manager of the Brummer Multi-Strategy fund, said markets are set to be characterised by “great concern and high volatility” for some time.
Brummer Multi-Strategy, the firm’s flagship multi-strategy fund of funds vehicle, has fallen 3.5 per cent so far this month, and has now lost 3 per cent since the start of 2020.
Crypto Broker has launched limit order functionality on its Crypto Asset Trader (CAT) to manage risk in the face of rising Coronavirus-related volatility across both crypto and traditional markets. Crypto Broker frees institutional and professional investors from constant monitoring of live prices with multiple exchanges and brokers around the globe, so they can focus on their core capabilities. As the first professional crypto broker in Europe to offer this functionality 24/7, Crypto Broker is one of a very few worldwide that enable highly secure crypto trading with best-price execution, a growing range of trading pairs, and professional liquidity. Limit orders are
With the US presidential election campaign rapidly gathering pace, the issue of political contributions – and the potential for conflicts of interest – has become a major issue on fund managers’ compliance radars.
The market fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will see continued volatility across equity, credit and commodity markets – but also potential investment opportunities.
The European Securities and Markets Authority, the pan-EU financial watchdog, tightened rules on short-selling on Monday, and will now require hedge funds and other holders of net short positions to notify their respective national regulators of positions greater than 0.1 per cent of a company’s share capital.
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital asset trading platform, has onboarded Fulgur Alpha, a USD280 million Bahamas-based absolute returns crypto hedge fund, consolidating its position as the leading source of liquidity for institutional investors in the crypto space.The launch of Fulgur Alpha on Bitfinex will put the fund among the three biggest on an exchange widely recognised as providing the best liquidity in Bitcoin. Fulgur Alpha, which is accessible only to professional investors, aims to increase the size of its assets under management in 2020.
The onboarding of Fulgur Alpha cements Bitfinex’s place as an exchange offering a robust trading infrastructure that
Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares Group, a leading digital asset management firm, today commented on recent market volatility and CoinShares Group’s operational continuity…In light of recent developments in both traditional and digital asset markets, we want to address our clients and the larger community about its operational continuity and robustness, and to share what we are doing throughout the Group to manage the significant amount of uncertainty and risk that results from current volatility levels.
Since 2014 and our launch of the world’s first regulated bitcoin fund, the Group has gone through periods of significant market turbulence, and will do
Seven ways the effects of the Coronavirus will impact the hedge fund industry
Seven ways the effects of the Coronavirus will impact the hedge fund industry