16 Jun 2020
Campbell & Company becomes investment adviser to flagship fund
The Campbell Systematic Macro Fund, a series of The RBB Fund, has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Equinox Campbell…
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Hedge fund industry split over return to work and client meetings, as lockdown measures ease
Most hedge fund industry employees have been working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, but now firms are split over when staff…
Alt-credit investor Alpha Blue Ocean eyes funding squeeze with novel convertible bond investment model
Alpha Blue Ocean, the London-based alternative credit investor, is eyeing growing funding opportunities arising out of the sharp economic…
MUFG Investor Services selects EquiLend Spire as global securities finance platform
MUFG Investor Services' Global Securities Lending Solutions Group has selected the EquiLend Spire securities finance system as its core…
INTL FCStone Ltd launches NDF offering through Integral’s BankFX Platform
Integral, an FX technology partner for banks, brokers and asset managers, has announced that INTL FCStone Ltd has begun trading NDFs on…
CTAs up 0.44 per cent in May
As financial markets continued their recovery and economies began to reopen from Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns, managed futures were able to…
15 Jun 2020
IEX launches India’s first gas trading platform
Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), India’s leading and premiere energy market platform has launched Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), the first…
Shift to private capital continues as investors thirst for returns
As global investment markets became more efficient and persistent low interest rates saw returns dry up, institutional investors have been…
World’s largest cap intro event goes live as top allocators and managers come together for Funds4Food Covid-19 fundraiser
The largest capital introduction event in history has gone live today (15 June) with the launch of Funds4Food, a two-week network of…
Quantile completes first cleared interest rate initial margin optimisation run with LCH
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of multilateral optimisation services, has completed its first cleared interest rate initial…
SECDEX Digital Custodian goes live
The Seychelles-based SECDEX Group, which comprises a licensed, regulated exchange (offering traditional and digital assets), central…
12 Jun 2020
Lessons learned: How luck, as well as skill, drove CTAs’ performance during the historic coronavirus sell-off
Managed futures strategies experienced an entire year’s worth of performance dispersion during a dramatic first three months of 2020, with…
Blue River Partners acquired by IQ-EQ
Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US-based provider of outsourced solutions to private equity and hedge funds has been acquired by…
Tether becomes second largest altcoin behind Ethereum tokens
Tether.io, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has eclipsed Ripple’s XRP to become…
Energy hedge fund CF Partners predicts higher commodity price moves following oil rally
CF Partners Capital Management, a London-based energy-focused hedge fund, is betting on a continued price recovery in energy markets…
