April 2016
Note Investors increasingly embrace quantitative strategies
Over two thirds of respondents of the Deutsche Bank annual Alternative Investment Survey invest in systematic strategies, including one in every two who plan to add to one or more quantitative sub-strategies in 2016. The largest investment consultants and pension funds are (...)
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April 2016
Note Are markets becoming more unstable?
Readers of financial news may believe that ‘market corrections’, or ‘shocks’, or ‘five-sigma events’ are more common than they used to be. Winton Capital Management look at the historical data for a number of financial markets and find that there is no evidence for increasing (...)
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April 2016
News Institutional investor appetite is back for quant funds
The recent CTA performances encourage institutional investors to more closely monitor this type of hedge fund. Thus, according to Preqin, 52% of them wish to increase their exposure to this type of alternative strategy this year (vs 14% last (...)
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April 2016
Interview Pierre Richert : « It is important to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for quant funds »
Pierre Richert, Agrica CFO – mutual company dedicated to the agriculture sector – still does not invest in quant funds. He considers necessary to enhance transparency, performance attribution and especially regulation for this kind of (...)
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April 2016
Interview Donald A. Steinbrugge : « A new CTA fund must have a strong differential advantage to have any chance of competing in the institutional market place. »
Donald A. Steinbrugge, managing partner at Agecroft Partners – US third party marketing firm specialized in hedge funds - gave us information regarding demand from institutional investors for CTAs
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April 2016
News Killer Quarter Has Hedge Funds down 2%
During the first quarter of 2016, hedge funds suffered a 2% drawdown according to the Lyxor Hedge Fund index. Across hedge fund strategies, CTAs and Merger Arbitrage have been the only segments of the industry being able to post returns in positive territory in (...)
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January 2016
Innovation Euronext launches sugar contract
Euronext announced that it will be launching a new Sugar commodities futures contract in the autumn of 2016, subject to regulatory approval. Aimed at all the actors of the European Union Sugar ecosystem, the contract will allow the industry to hedge its positions against (...)
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December 2015
News CTA Launches Fall to Lowest Level Since 2006
Fifty CTAs launched in the first nine months of 2015, and the year looks set for the fewest launches since 2006, when 66 CTA funds launched. As a proportion of all hedge funds launched each year, the fraction represented by CTAs has fallen below 10% for the first time since (...)
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October 2015
Innovation Euronext extends the segment for Spotlight Options to France
As part of its strategy to develop its derivatives segment, Euronext introduces today the first “Spotlight Options” on the Paris market. The dedicated segment for spotlight options benefits from a unique market model designed by Euronext to give more visibility to underlying (...)
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October 2015
News Euronext announces monthly trading volumes for september 2015
The September 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €8,071 million (+35% compared with September 2014). It was the most active September month in terms of average daily transaction value since 2008. Furthermore, 18 September was the (...)
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September 2015
Innovation Euronext launches the Euronext BeNe 40 Equal Weight Index
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced the launch of the Euronext® BeNe 40 Equal Weight index, an index reflecting the 40 most traded companies included in the BEL 20® and AEX® indices.
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September 2015
News Norexeco launches derivatives exchange platform for the pulp and paper industry
Norexeco ASA is set to start exchange services for the pulp and paper industry, becoming the world´s only derivatives exchange for this sector. Norexeco is supported by European Commodity Clearing (ECC), Europe’s leading clearing house for energy and related products, which (...)
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September 2015
News Euronext adds options on Flow Traders to its spotlight segment
Additional Spotlight options promoted to standard segment, thanks to lively trading
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September 2015
Note Is Factor Investing a Welfare-Improving New Investment Paradigm or Yet Another Marketing Fad?
In a new study entitled “Factor Investing: A Welfare-Improving New Investment Paradigm or Yet Another Marketing Fad?”, drawn from the Lyxor research chair on “Risk Allocation Solutions”, EDHEC-Risk examines the relative efficiency of standard forms of practical implementation of (...)
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August 2015
News Euronext announces record volumes
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, yesterday announced record trading volumes on its markets on 24 August 2015.
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