Viewing investment opportunities through a credit lens while adopting both a special situations approach, often involving equities, and a macro approach approach, using a variety of macro instruments, Westfield Investment employs a highly-differentiated strategy to capture idiosyncratic alpha. Founder, Ren Gao explains all…  »

Tradeweb’s Monthly Activity Report, which captures trading activity in fixed income, derivatives and ETF markets on the platform, reveals average daily notional volume of USD584.4 billion for the month of October 2018, which is up 38.8 per cent on a year-over-year basis, despite a slowdown from the record highs seen in September 2018. »

By Daniel Carpenter, Head of Regulation at Meritsoft – “Not my problem gov” has long been the response from the major investment managers when it comes to settling transactions. In fairness, why should a BlackRock or Fidelity really care? After all, most of the time their brokers are responsible for telling a custodian bank about the specific settlement date. »

Deutsche Bank has issued the Solactive China Consumer Index Certificate based on the Solactive China Consumer Index which is targeted at investors who seek the ability to participate in the growth of retail sales in China. »

Global Fund Media has returned to Cryptocurrency and blockchain with this November Special Report, featuring contributions from Swisscom Blockchain and Crypto Fund on how they offer grown-up solutions to investing in or holding cryptocurrency assets… »

Looking for a post-Brexit, EU hub for global fund distribution? This report reveals how Luxembourg offers a complete toolbox for the job, from innovative fund structures such as the RAIF to solutions for the blockchain and cryptocurrency investment era… »

March this year saw Markov Processes International (MPI) launch hedge fund indices with data from BarclayHedge. The MPI Hedge Fund Indices were designed to deliver performance benchmarks by pairing monthly hedge fund indices with daily tracker indices comprised of liquid securities that enable daily monitoring of hedge fund performance and risk. »