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Alpha Theory, a portfolio management and decision-processing platform for the global alternative investment industry, has partnered with FactSet, a global financial digital platform, to provide investment managers with systematic factor exposure data.
In collaboration with FactSet’s Quantitative Analytics team, Alpha Theory has built a five-factor risk model leveraging the company’s Quant Factor Library – a point-in-time database of factor insights, including Value, Growth, Momentum, Volatility, and Beta.
The new dataset combines FactSet’s factor data with Alpha Engine, Alpha Theory’s customisable rules engine, providing investment teams with daily factor exposure and attribution.
Cboe Global Markets is expanding its corporate bond index product suite with two new offerings – new options on Cboe iBoxx iShares $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index futures and Cboe iBoxx iShares $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index futures, and extended trading hours for IBHY and IGIB futures.
The new options will be available from 10 July, while the extension to almost 24-hour per weekday trading will happen in the third quarter of 2023.
The $10.4 trillion US corporate bond market includes cash and exchange-traded fund (ETF) markets, with CFE’s IBHY and IBIG as the only exchange-listed futures products
It can be challenging for boutique hedge fund managers to make the jump from personal capital to institutional investment, but it doesn’t need to be. In this conversation with Dan Sondhelm (pictured), CEO of Sondhelm Partners, we uncover common pitfalls and practical strategies to ease this transition.Â
The European Energy Exchange has developed a platform for the future technical implementation of sale auctions and other trading instruments for hydrogen and its derivatives, aimed at both governmental and commercial players.Â
Hedge funds that want to be active in the crypto space are immediately faced with the difficulty of how to execute on their trading strategies. Other asset classes, like equities or commodities, don’t present this problem in such a heightened way because those markets have well-defined, regulatory-compliant ways to act on trade ideas.
This article argues that over-the-counter derivatives (for brevity, swaps) can help mitigate regulatory and operational difficulties that hedge funds face when executing on crypto trading strategies. The article focuses on US hedge funds and US regulations because the US generally presents the greatest difficulties for hedge funds
The rapid growth of digital assets has created unique challenges and opportunities as the industry balances the needs of an innovative, ambitious sector with the checks and balances needed to ensure the security and safekeeping of assets.
Market structures are developing to mirror traditional financial standards and against this backdrop, the custody of digital assets has come under sharper scrutiny. There are two key approaches to custody that investors and asset managers should consider, self-custody or managed custody. Each comes with its own set of benefits and drawbacks which investors must weigh when making their decision.
In this context, asset
In the context of growing demand for digital assets, hedge funds operating in the space need to make a choice critical to the growth of their business – do they build their digital infrastructure or buy in the capabilities from a third party? Their choice here can significantly impact the fund’s operational efficiency and selecting which best suits their specific fund and business can support their development in a fragmented and shifting market.
Arcesium, a global fintech serving sophisticated financial institutions including hedge funds and private equity firms, has partnered with Confluence, a global investment tech solutions provider, to deliver an integrated data management and analytics solution for middle/back-office operations for asset managers.
MarketAxess Holdings Inc, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has completed the the first client algorithmic trade executed across multiple protocols using Adaptive Auto-X, the company’s multi-protocol automated execution solution, currently in pilot.
MarketAxess also announced the next phase of the pilot, which will introduce additional liquidity-seeking strategies depending on trader objective, urgency or pricing requirements.
MarketAxess launched the Adaptive Auto-X pilot earlier this year, building on the success of an established suite of automation protocols. Phase one of the pilot provided users with low-friction automation workflows to interact with passive liquidity across RFQ, order book
Much of the financial industry still operates on legacy technology, resulting in fragmented systems and interfaces which leave participants unable to be as agile and responsive as they need to be. Cloud-native clearing and custody systems can improve efficiency while minimising cost and risk. Andy Volz (pictured), chief operating officer and head of prime sales, Clear Street, explains further
