Category: Hedge Fund News
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The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is set to unlock global “megatrends” this year, including consumer and corporate technology, healthcare, and sustainability themes – and hedge fund investors can expect a “rich environment for growth”, a major new study by JP Morgan Asset Management suggests. The firm’s 2021 Global Alternative Outlook also predicts a rebound in equity market fundamentals as economies recover from the Covid crisis, as well...
Hedgeweek’s annual Global Outlook aims to take the temperature of the cosmopolitan hedge fund community, gauging how managers of all stripes intend to deal with the investment and operational challenges – and opportunities – confronting them this year…
One thing I always keep a close eye on as part of my investment research is the list of the most shorted UK shares. These are the shares that hedge funds and institutional investors are betting heavily against. When stocks are heavily shorted, it pays to be careful. The hedge funds don’t always get things right yet, quite often, they do. Carillion, Thomas Cook, Debenhams… these were all...
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex is to launch trading for ETH 2.0, allowing its users to exit or enter an ethereum (ETH) 2.0 staking position. ETH 2.0 will be available to trade with US Dollars (ETH2/USD), ethereum (ETH2/ETH) and tether tokens (ETH2/USDt) on 21/01/21 at 14:00 PM UTC. ETH 2.0 tokens represent ETH holdings successfully staked on Bitfinex’s ETH 2.0 staking service, and thereby locked on the beacon...
Genesis, a specialists in digital currency prime brokerage services, has appointed Dr Derar Islim to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Pragma, an independent algorithmic trading technology provider, has launched a new generation of deep-learning enabled execution algorithms. Pragma initiated the project in 2018 to see if deep neural networks could be applied to an execution algorithm’s micro-trading, engine–governing decisions such as the routing, sizing, pricing and timing of orders – and deal with complex multi-dimensional trading challenges more effectively. Following a beta launch in 2020, Pragma managed a...
New data released by Trading Platforms indicates that it costs USDF25.2 million per day in electricity to process bitcoin transactions. The consumption cost is based on bitcoin’s 30-day average transaction of 328,418 as of 17 January, 2021, and the energy footprint per 1 BTC transaction confirmation of 612 kWh equivalent to USD76.74. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
CARL has launched the CARL mobile application, a new digital investing tool that 'puts the power of quantitative hedge funds in the hands of regular accredited investors'. This new quant hedge fund opportunity is available now in the Apple App Store with an Android version in the pipeline. CARL is able to bring leading global quant hedge funds to regular accredited investors with a buy-in as low as...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has issued a discussion paper on market structure, putting forward a set of proposals designed to enable the Exchange to modernise and adapt to emerging trends and evolving customer needs. The proposals aim to achieve increased transparency and a structurally fairer and more efficient marketplace. They also take account of the rapidly increasing digitisation across commodity trading and the physical metals industry more...
Tourmaline Partners, an independent outsourced trading solutions firm, has marked the 10th anniversary of its business. The firm currently serves more than 350 institutional investor clients including hedge funds and asset managers of all sizes. Its non‐competitive relationships with more than 400 global brokers provide clients with access to liquidity at all major exchanges, dark pools, and other off-exchange trading venues around the world. Tourmaline’s unique business model...
Article contentBOSTON — U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management, known for its activist bent, is closing its 20-strong office in Hong Kong after moving responsibility for Asian investment decisions to London and Tokyo over the past three years.The 44-year-old firm told investors the Hong Kong workforce was being moved to London and Tokyo, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.The Hong Kong closure does not signal a...
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management plans to close its Hong Kong office and shift its remaining staff to Tokyo and London, one of the biggest financial firms to exit the city amid the worst recession on record.The US hedge fund has been winding down its operations in the city for several years and stopped investment activities in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year, according to people familiar...
