Hedge Funds Start 2025 Well; Macro and Currency Included
February 12, 2025
Hedge funds had a strong start to 2025 according to indexation and analytics firm HFR, which reports its HFRI Fund… Read More »
Hedge funds had a strong start to 2025 according to indexation and analytics firm HFR, which reports its HFRI Fund… Read More »
The latest semi-annual surveys of FX turnover published by the world’s seven major FX committees shows that activity slackened off… Read More »
As was the case with the other platforms to report FX volume data, CME Group also had a good start… Read More »
The foreign exchange market has undergone significant changes over the past decade as regulatory mandates, technological advancements, and new entrants… Read More »
Final data for 2024 shows that, thanks to increased volatility and possibly more customers putting their dealers in competition, FX… Read More »
As is probably to be expected given its major focus on improving settlement procedures, the latest iteration of the FX… Read More »
Trading platforms will have to explicitly state what they do with data derived from client transactions, whether executed or not,… Read More »
Jack Linker is celebrating 50 years in the FX industry, a period that has seen tremendous change. Colin Lambert sat… Read More »
Welcome to 2025, and in the spirit of a happy new year, let’s start by giving someone a kicking! What… Read More »
A volatile year came to a mixed close for hedge funds according to indexation and analysis firm HFR, with its… Read More »
2024 closed out with a relatively quiet month-end benchmark fix, with savings from using a longer calculation window largely in… Read More »
Market volatility brought some relief for CTAs in November, bringing to an end a period of mixed performance by the… Read More »
Singapore Exchange has reported its highest FX turnover to date in November, with several contract records, while CLS had its… Read More »
There has been a bit of a buzz around the news that LSEG is changing tack in its FX business,… Read More »
With only a couple of weeks to go until the end of 2024 it feels like an opportune time for… Read More »
Currency traders were once again a rare beacon of light in an otherwise tough month for CTA strategies in October,… Read More »
The rise in geopolitical tensions and the US election, have led UK fund managers to increase their FX hedging activities,… Read More »
Two weeks ago I wrote about the feedback initiative from the GFXC, part of which covered FX settlement, within which… Read More »
The October month-end provided the second lowest potential savings for using a longer calculation window for the London 4pm Fix,… Read More »
As reported by The Full FX on 17 September, Hugh Whelan has joined SGX FX, the OTC business of Singapore… Read More »
In contrast to the earlier group of platforms to report FX turnover, both LSEG FX and 360T saw a month-on-month… Read More »
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published a Transparency Draft aimed at updating its Statement of Good Practice for… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video in our series, Tabitha Smith, head of FX digital sales for EMEA at Citi, talks… Read More »
With the world and payments and settlements rapidly evolving, the Bank of England says it has been “encouraged” by the… Read More »
FX benchmark and reference data provider Siren FX has unveiled a partnership with market data provider QuantHouse to integrate its… Read More »
CTAs had their third consecutive monthly decline in performance in July, according to the Barclay CTA Index, managed by BarclayHedge,… Read More »
Currency traders were the only sub-class to return a positive performance as CTAs in the Barclay CTA Index, managed by… Read More »
It was two solid months in a row for CTAs, with the Barclay CTA Index from Barclayhedge reinforcing February’s almost… Read More »
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has announced the planned inclusion of currency derivatives in its holiday trading programme, which… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video interview, Colin Lambert discusses the importance of smarter FX hedging strategies with Mattias Eriksson, CEO… Read More »
CTAs continued their strong collective 2022 with the Barclay CTA Index rising 0.22% in October with over 90% of funds… Read More »
CTAs have continued to thrive in the volatile conditions in markets, with the Barclay CTA Index, managed by BarclayHedge, rising… Read More »
As has been the case for much of this year, macro hedge funds had another strong month in September, amidst… Read More »
After a month off, macro funds once again performed strongly in August, helping propel the HFRI Index to positive territory… Read More »
The Barclay CTA Index managed to eke out a 0.35% gain in June, as CTAs continued their strong collective 2022.… Read More »
CTA performance dipped for the first time since November 2021 according to the Barclay CTA Index from BarclayHedge, which has… Read More »
With volatility providing more trading opportunities, CTAs were quick to take advantage in April according to the Barclay CTA Index,… Read More »
CTAs had a reasonable start to the year, with the Barclay CTA Index recording a 0.63% rise for the month… Read More »
Manulife Investment Management has unveiled a raft of changes to its fixed income business which it says “strengthens the global… Read More »
Confirming that November was a tough month for investors, the Barclay CTA Index, managed by BarclayHedge, fell 1.2%, it remains,… Read More »
September was a rare down month for cryptocurrency traders in the Barclay CTA Index, which is up 0.34% for the… Read More »
Following the release last month of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s guidance paper on last lookin FX markets, oneZero is… Read More »
After a period of relatively quiet month-end London 4pm FX benchmark Fixes, August saw some significant moves ahead of, and… Read More »
Andrea Sanna has joined FCA regulated matched principal firm Alp Financial as senior liquidity manager to head up the execution… Read More »
CLS says it handled $1.745 trillion per day in traded FX volume during July, an across the board drop from… Read More »
It was suggested to me last week that the growth in outsourced trading in equity markets will inevitably spill over… Read More »
Digital assets trading technology provider Talos, has added a new feature to its platform to allow users to define and… Read More »
Oanda has named John Farda as managing director and head of North America, he will be based in New York… Read More »
The first group of FX platforms to report average daily volume (ADV) data, highlight a drop off in activity from… Read More »
Along with pre-hedging, last look has been one of the perennial challenges for the Global FX Committee as it seeks… Read More »
