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DMS Offshore Investment Services 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 interest in the platform has accelerated this year to the point where the management company has secured more than 60 fund mandates with close to 40 launched.  "In addition, we have over 100 risk clients to whom we are providing a range of risk and reporting services," comments CEO, Anne Storie (pictured). She continues:
Hendrik Klein and his team at Zurich-based Da Vinci Invest AG have been trading futures on Eurex since 1995, using a sophisticated algorithm to track economic indicators. In 2009, when Need to Know News brought out a computer-readable news feed, Klein immediately implemented it into the Da Vinci algorithm.  The proprietary strategy that resulted was highly successful, generating nearly 14 per cent between August and December of 2009. On 1st June 2011, the strategy, which scans newsfeeds for econometric indicators such as non-farm payroll data, US unemployment figures to trade as soon as there are discrepancies between the consensus view
Whereas previously investment managers might have looked at risk from a `check-the-box' perspective, today's regulatory environment and the growing sophistication of institutional investors is requiring them take it more seriously. There is, according to Bennett Egeth, President of Broadridge Investment Management Solutions, a need to generate consistent, reproducible risk reporting for regulators.  "Risk requirements have a ripple effect with managers having to explain how they arrived at the risk numbers being reported. They're detailing what their assumptions were in calculating risk, how those assumptions have changed (if at all) from the previous quarterly filings, and where the data came from
Blue Diamond Asset Management is an independent privately owned company based in Pfaffikon, Switzerland. The team of 4 investment professionals and one COO has a singular focus on the Non-Directional strategy. The strategy uses systematic, proprietary investment processes to capture opportunities arising in the equity volatility markets to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns. Since the strategy launched on 30 September, 2011 it has generated a gross annualised return of 31.9 per cent, 21.6 per cent net.  The fund itself commenced trading on 1st May, 2012. To demonstrate the robustness of the strategy, it has generated +0.7 per cent average monthly return
2015 was a big year for Concept Capital Markets, LLC having entered into an agreement to be acquired by Cowen Group, a leading growth investment bank and alternative investment firm with a heritage dating back to 1918. The transaction was completed 1 September 2015 and thanks to the significant financial and intellectual resources that Cowen has at its disposal, the newly named `Cowen Prime Services’ division is now well positioned, and resourced, to further expand its prime brokerage offering. “The acquisition is a validation of Concept Capital’s capabilities in the marketplace and a realisation that with the firms’ shared view with respect
According to Stephen Burke, Managing Director, EMEA, at Cordium, one of the world's leading regulatory compliance consultancies, regulation has changed the fund market. There is much more complexity and both investors and regulators are more exacting. This has led to Cordium focusing on its software proposition, which culminated in the launch of a product solution set earlier this year around how clients organise their compliance arrangements and engage with their compliance programmes.  "This software includes Cordium ELF, a personal compliance software management system, Cordium Pilot, a compliance workflow management tool, and Compliance Trak, which provides AML functions; in aggregate,
For the sixth consecutive year, the Best Global Accounting Firm is Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP. With a staff of more than 350 and numerous specialised industry and service teams, Anchin is a full-service accounting, tax and advisory firm that provides investment companies, privately-held businesses, and HNW individuals with a wide range of traditional and non-traditional services. Jeffrey Rosenthal, CPA, is Partner- in-Charge of Anchin's Financial Services Group. 2015 was, he says, a `breakthrough year'.  "We saw a significant increase in the number of startup funds, and a growing trend in family offices establishing funds for investing purposes and having those
Agecroft Partners was founded by Don Steinbrugge, who has 32 years of experience in the institutional investment management industry, including previously serving as the head of sales for one of the world's largest hedge funds and institutional investment management firms.  "Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing," says Steinbrugge (pictured). "Most third party marketing models are based on leveraging personal relationships and doing extensive entertaining. Ours has been to build a global brand with a reputation as an industry thought leader, strong institutional investment knowledge and representing very high quality manager.s” Steinbrugge has been a prolific
ACA Aponix provides financial services firms with a 360-degree, independent approach to technology risk and governance. Over the past 12 months, the firm has grown its client roster to 150 clients spanning the US and Europe, and is now signing contracts in Asia. To support this expansion, its client-facing team has grown by 300 per cent and added offices in London and the West Coast of America in addition to New York.  Cybersecurity has become one of the most important operational considerations for hedge fund managers today, particularly as regulators such as the Securities Exchange Commission in the US make it a
With fund raising set to become even more challenging in 2016, hedge fund managers have their work cut out but as this industry has proven time and again, innovation and coming up with creative ways to attract investor dollars – as well as trade markets – is never far away. Hedge funds thrive on adversity, although one feels that with performance having lagged for a couple of years, 2016 could be a particularly important year.  Not that this was a concern for the fantastic selection of hedge funds at this year's Global Hedgeweek Awards event, with each of our winners having

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