Digital Assets Report

Latest News

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, reference data and end-of-day pricing, has launched a Worldwide Cost Basis service (WCB). The WCB service has been designed to enable users to track both a security’s cost basis, its evolution and all its descendant’s cost basis and evolution up to the current date.   The service includes all events that affect cost basis and the number of units. The WCB information is delivered via FTP, either via exchange or on a portfolio basis.    The events covered by the WCB service are: bonus; merger; capital call; return of
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) saw a significant increase in trading volumes in 2016, setting new records in its core markets – power, gas and CO2 markets – and also achieving growth in new market segments. “In 2016 we succeeded in further strengthening our position as the leading energy exchange – in particular, in our core markets, while achieving significant growth in our new markets,” says Peter Reitz (pictured), chief executive officer of EEX. “Our customers benefit from one-stop-shop access to a broad range of energy and commodity products. In 2017, we will continue to work on increasing market shares
Sprott has appointed Ron Dewhurst to its board of directors, effective 9 January 2017. He will stand for re-election at the company's next annual general meeting.   “With more than 40 years of experience in the asset management and investment banking industries, Ron has a long track record of guiding the growth of successful asset managers and we are pleased to welcome him to the board,” says Peter Grosskopf, chief executive officer and director of Sprott.   Over the course of his career, Dewhurst has held many senior leadership roles in the US and Australia, most recently serving as executive vice
Active asset manager Quaero Capital is expanding into Asia with licensed local fund distributor Peak Capital to promote Quaero’s Family Enterprise Fund and other high conviction investment strategies to professional investors in the region. Quaero Capital is a specialist asset management boutique based in Geneva with offices in London and Paris. Its approach is to ‘hot house’ new and exciting investment strategies, testing them in the market place with a view to generating excess returns over the long term for its investors.   Quaero Capital managers Marc St John Webb and veteran investor Philip Best are well known in Europe
New York law firm Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen has appointed Jared R Gianatasio, Jason W Soncini, and Christopher M Terry as partner at the firm. "Jared, Jason and Chris each have a proven track record of excellence and a commitment to exceptional client service,” says managing partner Andrew Chonoles (pictured). “They have shown a great ability to collaborate with their colleagues and to advise clients on complex legal issues to help them achieve their goals. We are honoured to call them partners, and look forward to their future successes.”   Gianatasio has extensive experience representing market participants in the
Linedata has launched a new version of its fund accounting solution, Linedata Mfact. Based upon client feedback and an evaluation of market trends, Linedata Mfact offers a range of improvements designed to deliver increased operational efficiency and compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.   The new release offers greater integration with Linedata’s business process management tool, Linedata Optima, which offers customisable tools that sit across Linedata’s suite of fund services products. This increased integration is designed to automatically bring areas of potential concern and improvement directly to the users’ attention, without the need for detailed examination of reports, as well as
Wall Street Horizon and Estimize have partnered to provide their respective datasets to each other’s platforms in an effort to help investors find additional sources of alpha. Effective immediately, Wall Street Horizon Enchilada subscribers will have access to Estimize’s crowdsourced earnings and economic estimates, and Estimize’s clients will have access to Wall Street Horizon’s forward-looking earnings date calendar.   Quantitative and systematic investors use Wall Street Horizon’s and Estimize’s unique datasets in a variety of different ways to generate alpha. These firms rely on the accuracy of Wall Street Horizon’s earnings dates and Estimize’s earnings estimates to forecast upcoming volatility
Maitland is one of the industry's largest independent hedge fund administrators with USD280 billion in AuA. With more than 1,300 employees across 16 offices globally, Maitland is more than a fund administrator. It is a global advisory group, with its roots as an innovative law firm in Luxembourg in 1976 offering cross-border structuring solutions to corporates and some of the world's wealthiest families.  This in-house legal and tax expertise, as well as Maitland's independence, set it apart from most other fund administrators – and means that it is ahead of the game when it comes to administrators moving up the
DMS Governance specialises in providing global fund governance with the firm best regarded for the provision of offshore independent directors in the Cayman Islands. The second core business line is its UCITS and AIFMD management company and platform based in Dublin and Luxembourg.  "The demand for our European range of solutions has exceed expectations to the degree that we have doubled out footprint in Ireland and just relocated a senior executive team to Luxembourg to support the growth. Whilst proud of the now 94 mandates secured, what pleases me more is our ability to adapt to our clients changing needs
As William Samuel Johnson, one of the US founding fathers once said: “He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”  Well, it’s fair to say that adversity has been a common trait in the hedge fund industry over the last couple of years as managers have struggled in their alchemical quest to turn base ideas into investment gold.  Performance has lagged broader market indices, trades have become crowded, investors have become more astute and cutthroat in their allocation process, cybersecurity threats have risen exponentially, whilst the weight of regulatory compliance has continued to build.  2016 was, in

Special Reports

FeatureD

Events

16 May, 2024 – 8:30 am

Directory Listings