Cryptocurrencies

Institutional investors are leaning into volatility harvesting strategies, such as put spreads, strangles or condors, over traditional hedging for risk managed crypto exposure.

Crypto exchange-traded funds using derivatives could boost institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies by offering traditional investors a more accessible and regulated entry point.

Some U.S. equity market records were broken this week but not the type that would draw any applause in the middle of an election year. The Nasdaq had its worst day since 2022 on Wednesday with the major tech rout wiping out USD1 trillion from the composite index.

Investors are pouring record amounts into exchange-traded funds, but calling them a purely passive investment option is no longer cool (or accurate). Options-based ETFs have been making plenty of headlines lately and a debate about whether the market can handle the insatiable appetite for them made for an interesting discussion at Global EQD in May.

A paper co-authored by GIC and JP Morgan Asset Management this week looked at how hedge funds have more value than ever to offer institutions as geopolitics become more tense and a higher for longer rates environment becomes the new normal.

This week’s noise has made ignoring the cryptocurrency space almost unavoidable, maybe to the chagrin of the more traditional anti-crypto naysayers.

Was it the least equity-specific EQDerivatives event ever? Some audience members and speakers at the Wynn earlier this week were wondering.

The hedge fund space is in a strange place with the end of first quarter of this year being the 22nd consecutive month investors have pulled money out of the sector, according to the latest data from Nasdaq eVestment.

Paul Ebner, previously a portfolio manager and researcher at One River Asset Management before it was acquired by Coinbase, has announced he is launching his own independent advisory business for a variety of investors.

Bad news never has the effect you think it will, especially so in the derivatives space. But for once, options prices this week seemed to be taking into account the unsettling combination of the Fed signaling that rates might in fact stay higher for longer and tension in the Middle East reaching a boiling point.