More than a quarter of decision-makers in buy-side financial firms (28 per cent) cite fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest data management challenge they face, according to the results
Digital asset investment products saw another quiet week last week, with minimal net inflows totalling USD2.9 million, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report from CoinShares. After a few weeks of inflows into bitcoin outflows have now been
International law firm Proskauer has announced the results of the Proskauer Private Credit Default Index for the first quarter. The default rate continued to decline since peaking in Q2 2020. In Q1 2021 the overall default rate was 2.4 per
Professional investors believe the boom in cryptocurrency trading has further to run with nearly one in three expecting the level of trading to increase dramatically over the next 12 months, new global research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross shows.
More non-equity hedge funds are offering founder share classes in a bid to attract capital and get new launches off the ground.
While investors pulled USD9.36 billion from the global hedge fund sector in March, quarterly flows remained positive, at +USD17.68 billion, according to the just-released March 2021 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. Hedge funds’ strong performance so far this year,
Brazilian hedge funds are providing attractive risk-adjusted return for domestic investors, with a 23.38 per cent one-year return, according to research published by Preqin, the global leader in alternative assets data, tools and insights. Preqin analysed the data of 349
A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom and Deribit, offers insights into how proprietary trading firms are approaching the cryptocurrency markets, both spot and derivatives. The survey also explores how this differs between those firms created specifically
The global hedge fund business returned +0.18 per cent in June, bringing year to date (YTD) performance for the industry to +9.22 per cent, the best first half performance since 2009, according to the just-released eVestment June 2021 hedge fund
Versor Investments, a quantitative investment management firm focused on alternative investment strategies, has published a new white paper titled “The Environment for Merger Arbitrage: 2021.” The paper is co-authored by Versor Founding Partners Deepak Gurnani and Ludger Hentschel who have
