Hedge Funds Mixed in August
September 11, 2023
Hedge fund indexation firm HFR says August was a difficult month for many hedge funds with mixed performance from Macro… Read More »
Hedge fund indexation firm HFR says August was a difficult month for many hedge funds with mixed performance from Macro… Read More »
Hedge funds reinforced a strong June performance – the best returns for over two years – with continued gains in… Read More »
Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has entered into an agreement to buy FX, fixed income and equities algo trading technology… Read More »
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has reported increased revenues, but lower profits for the first half of 2022, within which… Read More »
Hedge funds had their best month since February 2021 according to the HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite Index, which surged… Read More »
With The Full FX View With the push for a consolidated tape (CT) seemingly mired in a back-and-fro between regulators… Read More »
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a report proposing a framework for designing open, inter-operable digital assets’ networks… Read More »
Barclays has released three key findings from its third annual fixed income market structure survey, identifying the continuing dominance of… Read More »
Macro hedge funds again managed to eke out gains amidst a much tougher environment for hedge funds generally, according to… Read More »
Data from Northern Trust reveals that thanks to global financial markets posting positive results during the first quarter of 2023,… Read More »
Sell side firms have a “broadly positive” outlook for their fixed income businesses in 2023, after an “era-changing” year in… Read More »
Bloomberg has announced plans to acquire fixed income technology provider Broadway in a deal that will help Broadway’s owner Ion… Read More »
Trading Technologies (TT) is back on the acquisition trail, announcing the addition of London-based fixed income platform AxeTrading. Terms of… Read More »
Macro strategies reinforced their dominance of hedge fund performance in 2022 with another good return in December, in spite of… Read More »
Fixed income trading venue MarketAxess, has named Chris Concannon, former head of Cboe Global Markets as its new CEO, shifting… Read More »
The extended run of positive months for Macro hedge funds continued in October according to indexing and analytical firm HFR,… Read More »
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has announced that Antulio Bomfim has been hired as head of global macro, a newly… Read More »
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published a paper discussing whether Europe should move to a one-day settlement… Read More »
After leading the way throughout 2022 Macro hedge funds finally took a back seat in July, with discretionary funds failing… Read More »
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management has adopted Bloomberg’s Rule Builder, a multi-asset, rules-based trade automation tool, to enhance the efficiency… Read More »
Three of the largest fixed income platforms have announced plans to form a joint venture to create a consolidated tape… Read More »
The 2022 UBS Global Family Office Report, which surveys 221 single family offices around the world, finds that digital transformation… Read More »
Hedge funds suffered in May, with even the recent star of the show – Macro – failing to hit positive… Read More »
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has unveiled Thomas Swaney as executive vice president and co-head of fixed income for the… Read More »
Fixed income connectivity and workflow specialist TransFICC has unveiled a new initiative to develop a consolidated Tape (CT) for fixed… Read More »
Manulife Investment Management has unveiled a raft of changes to its fixed income business which it says “strengthens the global… Read More »
The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published the final Standard for the sharing of investor allocation information in the… Read More »
Macro hedge funds posted strong, negatively-correlated gains in January as equity and fixed income markets suffered steep losses, while investors… Read More »
In a story that will be familiar to FX market participants, a survey released by the Association of Financial Markets… Read More »
Cowen has added to its outsourced fixed income trading team with the appointment of John Orrock as managing director. He… Read More »
Futures brokerage and clearing firm RJ O’Brien has named Amber Wright to global head of fixed income rates and e-trading… Read More »
Total hedge fund industry capital rose to surpass the $4 trillion milestone to begin 2022, HFR says, hitting an estimated… Read More »
Asset manager Ninety One, which spun off from Investec in 2020, has named Christine Reed as senior analyst, South America,… Read More »
Hedge funds advanced in December to conclude a strong year, according to the HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite (FWC) Index.… Read More »
The latest financial markets semi-annual survey by Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, finds that while respondents consider conditions to have… Read More »
Hedge funds gained in September, navigating a volatile month paced by sharp declines in global equities and fixed income, as… Read More »
In the latest edition of Currency Matters Colin Lambert talks to John Crouch, CEO, and Walter Bell, CTO, at Ideal… Read More »
Marketnode, a Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Temasek digital asset joint venture, has unveiled its initial partner ahead of impending product… Read More »
ScotiaBank has unveiled a series of electronic trading tools aimed at delivering execution services to equities, fixed income and FX… Read More »
Bryan Harkins, president of Cboe’s Bids Trading and former head of Markets at the exchange group, has joined electronic credit… Read More »
With pre-trade transaction cost analysis tools widely available in equities and FX markets, in fixed income, due to the highly… Read More »
Former head of the Bank of England’s FX Division, Michael Cross, has been named as chief information officer for global… Read More »
Barclays has released some high-level findings of a survey of fixed income traders, which finds that automation is starting to… Read More »
Fixed income technology provider Overbond has partnered with connectivity provider IPC to integrate the latter’s point-of-trade voice transaction data into… Read More »
Cryptocurrency and FX liquidity provider B2C2 has named Nicola White as president of its US operation. White joins from Citadel… Read More »
NatWest Markets has revealed it has partnered with fixed income connectivity solution provider TransFICC as part of its technology transformation.… Read More »
Fixed income platform Tradeweb Markets has named Dan Cleaves as managing director and head of its Dealerweb central limit order… Read More »
FlexTrade’s order management system (OMS) has been selected by UBS Execution Hub for its core platform. UBS Execution Hub taps… Read More »
Deutsche Bank has launched a new set of foreign exchange indices to track 21 emerging markets currencies, reflecting, the bank… Read More »
Societe Generale has announced the appointments of Sylvain Cartier and Alexandre Fleury as co-heads of global markets activities as of… Read More »
