‘It’s wild out there’: crypto firms lure top bankers in price boom
Featured in the Financial Times – Huge gains in digital asset values are helping crypto firms to poach previously out-of-reach executives from some of the biggest companies in mainstream finance.
Financial advisers lead the institutional push toward crypto adoption
Featured in CoinTelegraph – In the past, there were plenty of reasons for financial advisers to dismiss Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies as a worthy investment, but all of that is starting to change as more institutions become attuned to the digital asset class.
TYR Capital integrates with Copper
Featured in Hedge Week – Investors placing funds with TYR Capital will be guaranteed greater security by Copper’s proprietary technology, which reinforces sophisticated internal processes with further protection against human error, fraud, or theft.
Crypto fund TYR Capital chooses HedgeGuard to shore up portfolio management
With HedgeGuard’s technology, TYR Capital will have faster, more agile oversight across its order books, with seamless risk management and real-time tracking and reconciliation of fund positions. The technology easily integrates with third parties so that TYR Capital’s activity across custodians, administrators, exchanges and wallets remains at its fingertips at all times. Costs associated with operational […]
Crypto hedge fund refutes JPMorgan’s claim that Bitcoin ETF is short-term negative for BTC
Strategists at JPMorgan Chase caused quite the stir in January when they informed clients that the approval of a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, or ETF, would be a short-term headwind for the digital asset. A United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency hedge fund manager is attempting to pour cold water on those claims, asserting that JPMorgan’s analysis isn’t […]
The Grayscale GBTC Premium
On the 8th of January 2021 in a note distributed to clients titled “Flows & Liquidity” J.P.Morgan published the following view: “The approval of a bitcoin ETF in the US this year would likely be negative for bitcoin in the near term”. Their main premises are as follows: There is optimism around the prospect of […]
Crypto hedge funds struggle to recover from ‘Bloodbath’
Vlad Matveev has learnt the hard way how volatile cryptocurrency hedge funds can be. The 50-year-old Muscovite invested $250,000 last year with California-based Cryptolab Capital, which targeted double-digit gains from trading crypto regardless of whether the market rose or fell. But Mr Matveev said his investment fell 98.5 per cent in value when the fund […]
Crypto hedge fund TYR Capital ends first year with strong double digit returns
At a time when the repercussions of CovidD-19 are taking a heavy toll on both stock markets and the hedge fund industry, TYR Capital has started 2020 with a performance of +11 per cent as of the 30 April, beating benchmark comparators[1] by significant margin during extreme volatility. Annualised Sharpe ratio was above 4. TYR Capital Arbitrage […]
Bitcoin investors are bracing for a key technical event — here’s what you need to know
Bitcoin faces a key technical event Monday known as the “halving.” Due to take place later in the day, industry insiders are debating what effect it might have on the cryptocurrency market. So what is the halving? You can think of it as an update to the underlying network that logs all bitcoin transactions. There […]
Banks and fund managers come back for another bite at bitcoin
Financial markets are cosying up once more to crypto. Institutions such as banks and asset managers have long had a vexed relationship with cryptocurrencies, put off by reputational risks, lack of regulation and volatile returns. But a spell of better performance is drawing them deeper in. Dedicated cryptocurrency funds returned more than 16 per cent […]
