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NEWSLETTER | 20 May 2020

Lighthaven Capital to donate 25 per cent of performance fees to fund Covid-19 research

Traditional long/short fund Lighthaven Capital has committed to help in the fight against coronavirus by donating 25 per cent of its performance fees to fund research into Covid-19. Here, Founder and CIO Eric Cheung explains how a forward-thinking outlook is key to the firm’s investment philosophy…

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

Investors pulled more than USD85 billion out of hedge funds during March – some 2.7 per cent of total industry assets globally – amid growing fears over the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, new data from BarclayHedge shows.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

Truss Edge has announced further functionality and enhancements to its straight through processing technology platform for hedge funds.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

FXCM Group, an international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services, has made its stock basket offering tradeable by customers on its Australian and South African entities.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering trading insights and analysis, has launched an Intraday Pattern Feed for stocks and ETFs.

Visible Alpha releases 184 industry data sets

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

Visible Alpha, an investment research technology firm, has launched 'standardised industry metrics,' a proprietary data set that enables market participants to quantify and compare market expectations for companies across 184 industries.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

Alternative credit fund management is the focus of three new memos published by The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), covering fund structuring considerations, valuation, and conflicts of interest.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

TORA, provider of a cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has added Mark Mazor & Joe Zonenshine to the firm’s global outsourced trading team.

Wed | 20 May 2020, 11:34

FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has appointed Paul Beatty, a former Bloomberg Tradebook vet and industry veteran with over 25 years’ experience in FX, as Director of Business Development.