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NEWSLETTER | 10 Dec 2020

“Digital gold”: As bitcoin soars to record highs, hedge funds are capitalising on 2020’s crypto boom

When bitcoin hit an all-time high of some USD20,000 earlier this month, it rounded off a remarkable year for the world’s leading cryptocurrency – and fully underlined the arrival of the once-niche asset class on a rapidly-growing number of hedge fund firms’ radars.

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

RWC Partners' Clark Fenton believes the broad commodities complex is poised for a bull run after much of the global mining and energy sectors were “starved” of capital for a prolonged period.

Next gen of alt data

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

While the relationship between systematic hedge funds and alternative data sources is not new, quants have recently raised concerns that alt data is not giving the same alpha as it used to.

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

Axiom Alternative Investments, a French asset manager with EUR1.8 billion under management and offices in London and Paris, has continued to see positive inflows, despite the backdrop of an uncertain credit cycle and the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020.

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

Galaxy Plus, a platform for managers and investors providing an institutional level, “managed account like” experience in alternative assets, has added two new hedge fund managers.

Record number of candidates pass CAIA Level II exam

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the professional body for the global alternative investment industry, has announced that more candidates passed its most recent Level II examination than at any other point in its history, and it has welcomed its largest new class of Charterholders ever.

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

Fidelity Digital Assets has launched a new offering that enables clients on Fidelity’s institutional-grade digital assets custody platform to pledge bitcoin as collateral in a transaction.

Thu | 10 Dec 2020, 11:14

CLSA, Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, has deployed GigaSpaces In-Memory Computing Platform for algorithmic trade execution and for all client and exchange-facing management systems.