04 Jan 2021

MJ Hudson acquires PERACS

London-head-quartered asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired fund and portfolio performance specialist PERACS. Read the full…

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31 Dec 2020

Hedge fund launches rise as industry positions for growth in 2021

New hedge fund launches increased to the highest level in five quarters in Q3 2020 on optimism in the US economy, as managers and investors…

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18 Dec 2020

Over 70 per cent of hedge fund firms are confident about business prospects in 2021, says new AIMA HFCI index

Over 70 per cent of hedge fund firms are positive about their business prospects for the coming year, according to AIMA's new Hedge Fund…

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18 Dec 2020

MSCI ESG Research now available on Refintiv Eikon and Workspace platforms

MSCI ESG Research reports are now available to Buyside users by request on the Refinitiv Eikon and Workspace platforms – including mobile…

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16 Dec 2020

Hedge funds up 5.54 per cent in November, says Backstop BarclayHedge

The hedge fund industry reversed two consecutive months of losses in November, returning 5.54 per cent for the month, according to the…

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15 Dec 2020

ED&F Man Capital Markets and Vela collaborate on US Equities and Equity Options execution offering

Vela, an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, is now offering execution…

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11 Dec 2020

Brexit: "UK heading for the worst possible outcome at the worst possible time", says Crimson Black Capital's Ansal

Ayush Ansal, chief investment officer at the hedge fund, Crimson Black Capital, comments on the prospects of the UK leaving the EU without…

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10 Dec 2020

AIMA CEO Jack Inglis sees hedge fund “renaissance” next year as ESG, blockchain and digitalisation accelerate changes

2021 will see an “acceleration of trends” across the hedge fund industry, according to Jack Inglis, CEO of the Alternative Investment…

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10 Dec 2020

Commodities “poised for a bull run” after years of underinvestment, says RWC Partners

RWC Partners' Clark Fenton believes the broad commodities complex is poised for a bull run after much of the global mining and energy…

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08 Dec 2020

EDI challenges new CME fees as anti-competitive and illegal

Challenger data provider, Exchange Data International (EDI), has written to the CFTC, the heads of the relevant Committees of the US House…

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08 Dec 2020

OptionMetrics launches IvyDB Asia 2.0 with updated and enhanced historical options data for markets in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia

OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors and academic researchers, has launched…

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08 Dec 2020

IHS Markit extends support for unstructured data and adds one million industry research reports to data lake

IHS Markit has extended its Data Lake to support unstructured content using the latest natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Read…

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07 Dec 2020

Contextualising alternative data is key to garnering true insights

The world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion of data over the last few years. Most of us will be familiar with the term Terabyte,…

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07 Dec 2020

CubeLogic partners with Numerix & IOWArocks to launch new Risk-as-a-Service solution

CubeLogic, a provider of enterprise risk management solutions, has launched a new Risk-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering developed in…

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07 Dec 2020

Europe’s liquid alternatives market is in line for a boost

The short-term outlook for liquid alternatives in Europe remains pessimistic, but the promise of uncorrelated returns is expected to boost…

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