Europe, Middle East and Africa

Institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe, namely hedge funds and asset managers, are entering futures contracts on the Nifty 50 index as a way to add alpha and rebalance their portfolios.

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.

Uncertainty around the U.S. presidential election is ushering in opportunities to play relative value volatility strategies between Europe and the U.S. Simon Aninat, senior portfolio manager for volatility and overlay strategies at EUR382 billion Ostrum Asset Management, said implementations could include...

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.

Portfolio managers at Newton Investment Management are implementing more derivative-based structures and strategies in the firm’s Real Returns strategy. Lars Middleton, portfolio manager at Newton Investment Management, said more illusive diversification within multi-asset portfolios over recent years has prompted this change. 

Systematic strategies have been a popular choice for investors to navigate the market in recent years but Valentin Petrescou, global macro portfolio manager at Lombard Odier 1798, said they can often rely too much on backtest optimization and past correlations, which can create adverse outcomes. He said a combination of systematic and...

Investors are increasingly concerned about volatility with high interest rates, inflation, geopolitical tensions and more than half the world headed to the polling booth. For asset owners and asset managers, this shifting landscape is causing a fog of uncertainty or as AP3’s head of strategic asset allocation said, investors are hiking in the mist.

Correlation between stocks is the lowest it has been in decades across the U.S. and in Europe. “This puts us at risk of a correlated market shock that...

In this week’s EQDerivatives People Move Roundup, we report on the latest buyside and sellside moves, including new additions at Campbell & Company, Société Générale and more.

Linus Nilsson, who joined Tidan Capital as head of systematic strategies on July 1, is preparing to launch a standalone systematic fund. The strategy is going live next week as part of a mandate with a U.S. institutional investor and will launch as a standalone fund later this year.