12 Nov 2020
State Street expands MediaStats offering with central bank and thematic indicators
State Street Corporation has launched State Street MediaStats Central Bank Indicators and State Street MediaStats Thematic Indicators - two…
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Hedge funds see second consecutive month of average performance decline
Hedge funds continued to face a difficult market environment in October as for a second consecutive month the majority of funds saw…
Acuity Trading announces new hires to drive news sentiment innovation
Acuity Trading is expanding its team with the appointment of Vladislav Novopoltsev as a Product Manager and Gustavo Avalos as a Data…
11 Nov 2020
Crux Informatics partners with Google Cloud to provide access to thousands of datasets
Crux Informatics (Crux) has partnered with Google Cloud to make it easier for Crux’s data suppliers to provide their data to customers. The…
Alternative fund managers demonstrated resilience in adapting to the new Covid-19 reality
Despite extreme levels of market volatility, increased trading volumes and disruptions to society due to Covid-19, alternative fund…
06 Nov 2020
Biden win with split Congress is “best outcome” for riskier assets, says Pictet chief strategist
Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management, says the US political gridlock of recent days following the closely-run…
04 Nov 2020
Hedge fund side letters survey reveals increase in fee discount clauses
A new Seward & Kissel study into the use of side letters in the hedge fund industry shows fee discount clauses are now the most common…
03 Nov 2020
Cappitech survey highlights ongoing transaction reporting challenges
Cappitech, a provider of regulatory reporting, best execution analysis and business intelligence solutions for the financial services…
How consumer data provider Yodlee can help bolster the buy-side portfolio-building process
Envestnet Yodlee, a data aggregation and analytics platform specialising in consumer spending data analytics, says asset managers are…
02 Nov 2020
Hedge funds “relatively prepared” for contested election result
Some hedge fund managers fear that a contested outcome in tomorrow’s US presidential election, followed by a prolonged wrangle over the…
Remote working could accelerate a regionalisation of the US hedge fund industry
Zoom has been the ultimate success story for 2020 as firms, globally, have adjusted to remote working. If I think about what the next best…
Bitcoin is standout performer amid global sell-off
Amid the global sell-off across all major asset classes last week bitcoin was the standout performer, rising 5.4 per cent versus gold…
New report highlights growing demand for smaller or newer hedge fund managers
The global hedge fund industry is currently facing headwinds from fee pressure, increased redemptions, and liquidations, with the situation…
30 Oct 2020
Post trade operations becoming increasingly challenging, says new report
Increased automation of the middle-office, and the use of secure cloud-based platforms should be key priorities for firms amid an…
22 Oct 2020
Refinitiv multi-asset market data now available on SteelEye platform
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has incorporated Refinitiv market data on its platform. SteelEye, a compliance…
