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Muddy Waters Capital, an activist investment firm, has appointed Terrence L Ing as Head of Credit.  Ing will identify opportunities for activism within the corporate credit market, including investment grade credits that could re-rate to high-yield, and in companies with financial statements that obscure economic reality through heavy use of financial engineering. Ing will also assist Muddy Waters with expressing its views through derivatives and various securities across the capital structure. Prior to Muddy Waters, Ing served as a portfolio manager and senior analyst for PIMCO's USD3.3 billion Global Credit Opportunity Hedge Fund, where he focused on cross sector credit
April hedge fund returns were generally positive with 2/3 of reporting funds up during the month, but smaller funds outperformed larger managers, a trend which has persisted throughout the year, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report. Commodity funds excelled in April and distressed funds rebounded for a second consecutive month. There were pockets of losses from macro and large managed futures funds which weighed on industry returns.  Commodity hedge funds produced average aggregate returns of +4.10 per cent in April, bringing YTD returns to +6.01 per cent. The group benefitted from a surge of higher prices across the
China is in the midst of a poor-quality rebound, says Geraud Charpin, Portfolio Manager, BlueBay… Risk assets were trading weaker in the past week amidst volatility in currencies, an unconvincing earnings trend dotted with notable misses and the realisation that asset prices have gone up again while global economic conditions are getting more stretched rather than stronger. A number of themes were discussed across desks and it is macro themes rather than bottom up stories occupying the minds of our analysts.   There are a lot of discussions across the firm about whether China should matter in the here and
Professor Riccardo Rebonato, a specialist in interest rate risk modelling with applications to bond portfolio management and fixed-income derivatives pricing, has joined EDHEC-Risk Institute. He has also joined the EDHEC Faculty. Professor Rebonato was previously Global Head of Rates and FX Research at PIMCO. He also served as Head of Front Office Risk Management and Head of Clients Analytics, Global Head of Market Risk and Global Head of Quantitative Research at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Prior joining RBS, he was Head of Complex IR Derivatives Trading and Head of Head of Derivatives Research at Barclays Capital. Riccardo Rebonato has
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has selected Fortinet to optimise key aspects of the firm’s email and network security, and enable enhanced cybersecurity capabilities for client firms.  The deal has seen Options deploy Fortinet’s end-to-end, next generation firewall solution known as FortiGate and industry leading, email security platform, FortiMail, to heighten protection against spam, malware and other message-borne threats. Fortinet‘s solutions, which protect the most valuable assets of some of the largest enterprise, service provider and government organizations across the globe, have been deployed right across Options’ suite of managed infrastructure
Both the National Futures Association (NFA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are becoming increasingly active in assessing the ‘cyber preparedness’ of registered investment advisers, using specialist IT teams to conduct audits.  The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations examined 49 registered investment advisers and 57 registered broker dealers in 2014 and in January 2015 reported that 74 per cent of the registrants interviewed experienced a cyber-related incident.   On 1 March 2016 the National Futures Association formerly introduced the Cybersecurity Interpretive Notice. Cybersecurity risk assessments with regular reviews, written information security policies, staff training, vendor due diligence, deployment
This report outlines the main talking points from a recent cybersecurity panel event, where experts provided four core principles which fund managers should consider to create a viable cyber threat program. Please click here to download a copy of this special report.  
Imagine Software, a provider of front-to-back office risk and portfolio management to asset managers, investment banks, prime brokers, hedge funds, and institutional investors, has revealed that more than 85 per cent of its clients are using apps or leveraging their financial platform to gain an edge in the market or to streamline operations. Imagine's cloud offering, launched as the industry's first in 2000, includes the Imagine Financial Platform (IFP). Using the IFP, Imagine's clients and service providers can tap into Imagine's wealth of analytics and data from any device, anytime, anywhere, to solve their most complex problems or to enhance
HazelTree, a provider of integrated treasury management solutions has named hedge fund industry veteran Sameer Shalaby as the company’s president, chief executive officer and board director.  He replaces Stephen Casner, who will continue with HazelTree as its global head of partnerships to forge key strategic relationships with major industry players. Shalaby, 48, joins HazelTree with more than 25 years of software industry experience and extensive financial technology and hedge fund expertise. As HazelTree’s new CEO, his top priorities will be accelerating the company’s global growth, increasing focus on customer service and driving product innovation. Sameer Shalaby most recently was the
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a proposed amendment to a final order the CFTC issued on 28 March, 2013 that exempted certain specified transactions of six Regional Transmission Organisations and Independent System Operators (RTO-ISO Order) from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations. The RTO-ISO Order exempted contracts, agreements, and transactions for the purchase or sale of the limited electric energy-related products that are specifically described within the RTO-ISO Order from the provisions of the CEA and CFTC regulations, with the exception of the CFTC’s general anti-fraud and anti-manipulation authority, and scienter-based

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