(Opalesque) In the week ending March 13th 2020, Eurekahedge said that hedge funds had the strongest outperformance compared with broad financial markets since 2009 last month as the coronavirus outbreak began to infect markets.The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was down […]

(Opalesque) London-based global specialty reinsurer Canopius has acquired Bermuda-based Multi-Strat Holdings Ltd. Multi-Strat Holdings is a specialty reinsurer focused on casualty reinsurance and casualty reinsurance linked security (ILS) transactions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canopius is one of the top […]

(CNBC) Stock futures plunged Sunday night even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak.Stock market futures hit “limit down” levels of 5% lower, a move made by […]

(CNBC) Markets always rush to price in future economic conditions and often overshoot in the process. But can the recent near-30% crash in three weeks through Thursday have properly discounted an economic path now being set by an intentionally extreme […]

(CNBC) The Financial Services Forum, which includes some of the biggest banks in the United States, announced Sunday that its members would stop stock buybacks through the second quarter of the year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The group — […]

(Hedgeweek) The Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a temporary ban on the short selling of certain Italian stocks, which will last until the end of Friday’s trading, in a move to calm the sustained frenzied selling following hefty slides in […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund losses picked up in February with the industry down 2.81 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P Total Return Index […]

(Hedgeweek) CloudQuant says it has proven the value in the Precision Alpha Machine Learning Signals (PA Signals) alternative data set. Its detailed data science study shows a long-short portfolio outperforms the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF by an average of 37.9 […]

(Hedgeweek) Recent spikes in Korean stock market volatility following the global sell-off could see an upswing in margin calls in its autocallables market, potentially driving the index even lower, with investors taking advantage of the higher volatility to obtain higher […]

(Opalesque) The global hedge funds industry posted aggregate performance of -2.53% in February 2020 bringing YTD returns to -2.82%, according to the just-released eVestment February 2020 hedge fund performance data. While disappointing on the face of it, the aggregate figure […]

(Hedgeweek) Cineworld, the London-listed cinema group heavily shorted by a number of hedge funds, saw its share price tumble on Thursday amid the continued market sell-off on the back of the coronavirus outbreak. To read this article:

(CNBC) Cryptocurrencies took a battering following a global sell-off in stocks, with bitcoin seeing a near 40% plunge. The market capitalization, or total value of the entire cryptocurrency market plummeted around $93.5 billion in the space of 24 hours as […]