Marex Spectron, a UK-based commodities brokerage company, has launched a new business, dubbed Nanolytics Capital Advisors, to develop alternative investment products.
The new products will be based on the company’s Nanolytics models, which were initially developed to meet the challenges in commodity markets that arose from the growth of high frequency trading (HFT).
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Nanolytics algorithms process billions of publically-available data points, covering multiple commodity markets utilising Marex Spectron’s institutional-scale infrastructure and systems, to exclude the effect of HFT trades and deliver insights into the underlying demand-supply balances that signals likely future price movements (alpha signals).
These alpha signals will form the basis of the Nanolytics Alpha Fund, Marex said.
Privium Fund Management (UK), an FCA-regulated investment manager, will run the fund, while Nanolytics Capital Advisors will operate as investment advisor.
Early-stage potential investors are in the process of doing formal due diligence on the investment strategy and all elements of operations. The strategy is currently traded by Marex Spectron in a managed account structure until the fund’s actual launch.
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By GlobalDataThe fund will be marketed to Qualified Institutional Investors only, with Bride Valley Partners mandated to assist in asset raising, the company said in its press statement.
Guy Wolf, global head of market analytics at Marex Spectron and the developer of Nanolytics has been seconded to Privium to act as portfolio manager to the fund.
The fund is restricted from trading base metals to prevent conflict with Marex Spectron’s LME business.
Marex Spectron CEO Ian Lowitt commented: "We are excited to bring this unique and innovative offering to market, leveraging the core intellectual capital of the firm. We believe that this offers investors a new and differentiated means of gaining exposure to commodities at a key point of the commodity cycle."
