6/18/2021 3:46:40 PM Hedge funds expect to hold 7% of assets in crypto within five years By Carlos Alonso Torras A survey of 100 hedge fund CFOs globally, conducted by fund administrator Intertrust, found that executives expect to hold an average of...
5/21/2020 5:35:59 PM Crypto hedge funds struggle to recover from ‘bloodbath’ By Faisal Kawar After a strong April, the total value of the crypto market comes to $265b. Crypto hedge fund returns are at 13.4% this year - compared to...
4/3/2020 5:37:23 PM Ken Griffin’s Virus Plan Now Includes Emergency Trading Site in Florida By Faisal Kawar Market-maker Citadel Securities opened a temporary Palm Beach trading floor at a hotel while keeping all 24 staff from NY and Chicago...
3/27/2020 5:05:18 PM Glitchy coronavirus markets cause quant funds to misfire By Faisal Kawar Renaissance, Two Sigma and DE Shaw suffer unusual setbacks with average quant fund losing 14% this year per Credit Suisse estimate. ...
12/19/2019 11:45:45 PM FCA investigates Bank of England security breach By Faisal Kawar The UK’s financial watchdog has launched an investigation into a security breach at the Bank of England that allowed hedge funds early...
12/19/2019 7:43:32 PM Hedge funds eavesdrop on vital Bank of England briefings By Faisal Kawar A head start of a few seconds allows hedge funds to make millions, as The Times discovered that one of the Bank of England's suppliers...
1/11/2019 6:54:28 PM ‘Extraordinary’ Month Heaps Further Pain on Hedge Funds By FinTech Collective While many in the financial community believe that volatility is good for hedge funds, it's only true if you are on the right side of the...
11/2/2018 8:53:47 PM US quant fund expands abroad as algos dominate at home By FinTech Collective As quant funds compete away alpha in the US, some are looking to foreign markets to bring their craft. The FT highlights how Schonfeld is...
9/28/2018 8:04:21 PM Robinhood releases an official statement, says they do not sell customer information By FinTech Collective Robinhood felt the need to clarify that exchanges and liquidity providers must compete to fill orders at the best price, which ultimately...
10/20/2017 1:33:58 PM Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Top 100 for First Time By Gareth Jones Of the 110 funds, 84 were launched in 2017, 11 in 2016 and the remainder previously. Assets across the 110 funds rose to $2.2B
10/6/2017 12:00:00 AM Why are hedge fund groups turning to fintech alternatives for investment? By FinTech Collective Hedge funds seem to be increasingly turning to FinTech startups to open up new investment opportunities in previously illiquid,...
4/6/2017 1:44:39 PM Reorg Research Officially Launches Reorg Covenants By FinTech Collective Portfolio company Reorg Research, the leading provider of news and analytics for distressed debt investing, has a launched a new...
12/13/2016 12:57:15 PM Hedge Fund Driven by Anonymous Ideas Gets New Investments By FinTech Collective Numerai, the San Francisco based hedge fund built on machine learning, has closed a $6m Series A led by Union Square Ventures.
12/13/2016 12:51:54 PM 7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain By FinTech Collective Richard Craib, founder of Numerai, pays a legion of anonymous data scientists with bitcoin to build machine learning models on his...
11/4/2016 10:02:25 PM Former SAC Trader Launches Company Focused on Big Data By FinTech Collective Institutional Investor highlights how Nadir Khan's Qineqt will use big data and fundamental analysis to help hedge funds and other...
2/18/2016 3:09:47 AM Hedge Fund Manager Puts Profile on Social Media, Lures $20 Million By Gareth Jones What started out as a research platform, SumZero has now started to win respect by surfacing small hedge funds with unique investment...