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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Commodity Hedge Fund Definition: A commodity hedge fund buys and sells futures contracts and other derivatives based on mining, energy, power, and agricultural products and earns profits via fundamental and technical analysis; the trading may be systematic, discretionary, or both. If you deliver 5,000 bushels, that’s a profit of $5,000.

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What is Salvage Value? Explanation and Examples in Finance

Peak Frameworks

Formula: Annual Depreciation Expense = (Cost of Asset - Salvage Value) / Useful Life Declining Balance Method Methodology: A more accelerated depreciation method, where depreciation expense decreases over time. Salvage Value Role: Acts as a threshold that depreciation cannot reduce the book value of the asset below.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

For some asset managers and hedge funds, the seemingly impossible notion of all traders not physically sitting together on a centralised desk and communicating face-to-face was all but wiped away overnight as the hybrid working setup was forcibly tested and passed with flying colours.

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Trading at the frontier

The TRADE

She joined Ninety One in 2021 from Royal London Asset Management where she had been head of dealing for three years. In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. Gibson is a seasoned trader with an extensive career in markets.

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Leaders in Trading 2023: Meet the nominees for… Outstanding Market Data Provider

The TRADE

BMLL Technologies BMLL provides its clients – banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, global exchange groups, academic institutions and regulators immediate and flexible access to Level 3, harmonised, T+1 historical order book data and advanced pre- and post-trade analytics at scale.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

The TRADE

So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” It should be noted that in a market which has experienced provider exits, the shedding of less profitable clients and with looming increased capital requirements – don’t underestimate the lure of staying power and commitment to the business.

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