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Axon Financial Systems, a provider of technology-enabled market data management, has launched its new brand and website, which includes an enhanced product platform offering a three-tier suite of market data management solutions. The new platform, which includes the product suites AxonKnowledge, AxonManage, and AxonWorks, is designed to strengthen Axon’s core customer offering and lay the foundation for the introduction of additional new products and services in the future.   Since its launch in 2014 Axon has been disrupting the market data management industry by using technology to streamline market data reporting and administration.   Axon products ease the burden of
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2017 measured 2.41 per cent, down from 3.48 per cent in March. "SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2017 of 2.41 per cent represents a sharp improvement on a year-over-year basis from 2.94 per cent reported in April of 2016," says Bill Stone (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies.   "This is the third consecutive month of improvement in the Forward Redemption Indicator compared to the same periods a year ago and is consistent with other recent data we have seen, including favourable results in SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement
The past week has been adverse for global macro and CTA hedge fund strategies, according to Lyxor’s latest Weekly Brief. This has taken place in the context of the announcement of general elections in the UK, which translated into trend reversals across UK assets.   Higher risk aversion in Europe ahead of the French presidential election also played a role.   Both strategies maintain sizeable long European equity exposures while some macro managers are also short European fixed income. Yet, the likelihood that Macron will win with a comfortable margin at the runoff on 7 May is supportive for both
By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace â€“ Cayman has seen a healthy increase in private equity funds year on year over the past decade. The popularity of Cayman private equity funds has been fuelled by both the evolution of hedge fund managers’ businesses into the private equity fund space and by the increased use of private equity funds to pursue distressed asset investments. The Cayman exempted limited partnership (ELP) structure is the most commonly used entity for Cayman private equity funds and is internationally recognised as a flexible, tax-neutral, low-cost fund vehicle. ELPs do not have their own legal personality and their
Tikehau Capital, a pan-European listed alternative asset management and investment firm, has appointed Peter Cirenza as head of its London operations, effective 24 April 2017. Cirenza will be responsible for helping develop the firm’s private asset strategies – private debt, real estate and private equity.   He will be running the London operations alongside chairman Lord Peter Levene.   Cirenza has been a member of Tikehau Capital’s advisory board since 2005. In this role, he has been supporting the company’s leadership team providing his insight as an outside expert in principal investing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions.   Bringing
Kempen Capital Management has launched a solution that enables professional investors to access the structured credit market in a cost-efficient manner. The Diversified Structured Credit Pool (DSCP) is a pool comprised of long-only structured credit funds carefully selected by Kempen, through which investors are able to gain access to three best-in-class structured credit specialists (GoldenTree, LibreMax and One William Street).   Kempen has a long history investing in structured credit managers since 2009, as part of its flagship fund of hedge funds (FoHF) Kempen Orange Investment Partnership. Its hedge fund solutions team includes three portfolio managers, who each have more
LOGiQ Asset Management has appointed Colleen McMorrow and the Honourable Joe Oliver to its board of directors, effective 21 April 2017. McMorrow (pictured) has also been appointed the chair of the board's audit committee.   McMorrow is an accomplished business professional who recently retired as partner from a 38-year career at Ernst and Young where she held a number of senior leadership positions.   She presently serves as a director on various boards and also participates in the capacity of chair of the Finance and Audit Committee for the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario board and as a member of
Matthew Chamberlain has been appointed as chief executive of the London Metal Exchange (LME), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), subject to the approval of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Chamberlain (pictured) will remain on the LME board and will continue as a member of HKEX’s management committee.   Chamberlain has been the interim chief executive since January 2017 and was previously the chief operating officer and head of strategy of the LME, and co-head of business development across the LME and LME Clear. During his time at the LME, Chamberlain has led the
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order of registration to London-based NEX SEF Limited, granting it registration status as a swap execution facility (SEF).  NEX SEF is a private limited company, incorporated in the UK and a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEX Group, also headquartered in London.   SEFs are platforms that operate under the CFTC’s regulatory oversight for the trading of swaps. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 authorized the creation of SEFs.   After a review of its application and associated exhibits, the CFTC has determined that NEX SEF demonstrated
Total hedge fund industry capital increased to a third consecutive quarterly record in the first quarter of 2017, as investors increased allocations to event driven and quantitative, trend-following systematic macro strategies. Industry assets ended Q1 2017 at USD3.07 trillion, a quarterly increase of USD47.2 billion (1.6 per cent), according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report, released by HFR.   In the trailing 12 months, total hedge fund capital has increased by 7.3 per cent.   The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) rose 2.4 per cent in Q1 2017 led by equity hedge strategies, while the HFRI

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