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Sanjay Shah, the British hedge fund trader accused of masterminding an allegedly fraudulent cum-ex trading scheme has told a Danish court that there was nothing illegal in his receipt of more than DKK9bn ($1.3bn) in dividend tax refunds from the country’s authorities.
Nearly nine out of 10 institutional investors and wealth managers recognise digital assets’ role in diversified portfolios with half believing they should represent a moderate portion of portfolios, according to a survey led by London-based digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital Asset Management.
On-chain digital asset management platform Hashnote has partnered with CoinDesk Indices to launch the Hashnote CoinDesk 20 Fund, which tracks the global digital asset benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index.
Derivatives and securities exchange network Cboe Global Markets has launched options on three new MSCI indices – Cboe MSCI World Index Options, Cboe MSCI ACWI Index Options, and Cboe MSCI USA Index Options.
Former Millennium Management money manager Sameer Garg has joined Caxton Associates to work in macro and cross asset volatility trading in Dubai, as part of the global macro hedge fund firm’s expansion plans in the emirate, according to a report by Bloomberg.
ASK Hedge Solutions, a subsidiary of Blackstone-backed ASK Asset and Wealth Management Group, has launched the ASK Absolute Return Fund, its first long-short fund and an open-ended Category III Alternative Investment Fund.
A number of  high-profile hedge fund and private equity firms are discussing ways to deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on the financial industry’s use of disappearing messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Digital asset investment products saw record weekly inflows totalling $2.9bn last week, beating the prior week’s all-time record of $2.7bn, according to the latest Digital Assets Weekly Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
Hedge funds have increased their investments in financial stocks in North America, Europe and Asian emerging markets, at a time when European and US banking indices are soaring, according to a report by Reuters citing a note from the Goldman Sachs Group’s prime brokerage desk. 
Freddie Sizer, who led European physical gas trading at Freepoint Commodities, has left the commodities trading company to set up his own hedge fund firm focused on gas and power investments, according to a report by Bloomberg. 

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