River and Mercantile Derivatives, part of River and Mercantile Group, has been awarded a GBP1.2 billion structured equity options mandate for Worcestershire County Council Pension Fund (the Fund). The Fund was seeking downside protection for its passive UK, US and
The founding CEO of The Crypto Company, one of the first publicly traded companies investing in blockchain, has formed a specialised hedge fund to directly invest in businesses associated with distributed ledger technologies (DLT). Mike Poutre, a three-time CEO of
London-based asset management consultancy MJ Hudson is to acquire the Jersey administrator, Anglo Saxon Trust (AST), subject to Jersey Financial Services Commission regulatory approval and certain other conditions. AST is an established provider of company and trust formation, registrar and
Thesis Unit Trust Management Limited (Tutman), an independent Authorised Fund Manager (AFM), CRUX Asset Management Limited (CRUX), an independent fund management company, and Sanditon Asset Management Limited (Sanditon), an independent investment management firm, have transferred two Sanditon funds to CRUX.
Hedge fund managers ended September 2019 mostly flat, with the equal-weighted index down 0.13 per cent and the asset-weighted index up 0.15 per cent, according to data released by Eurekahedge. The continuation of the US-China trade talks and the ECB’s
The EQ Derivatives survey finds that alternative risk premia strategies have been adopted by innovative pension funds around the globe since the Global Financial Crisis, with assets invested in the strategies now poised to grow 35 per cent by 2019
The Citco Group of Companies (Citco) has expanded partnership with Solovis, a multi-asset class portfolio management, analytics and reporting platform for asset owners and allocators. The strategic partnership with Solovis spans business, technology and services and includes an equity investment
Confluence Technologies, a specialist in investment data management automation for regulatory, financial and investor reporting, has acquired StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics, asset data services and data management tools for the global asset management industry and asset management
Fulcrum Asset Management (Fulcrum) has launched the Fulcrum Diversified Liquid Alternatives Fund (the Fund), an unconstrained portfolio investing across real assets, alternative credit and diversifiers. The Fund has a target return of cash +4 per cent per annum over rolling
The global ETF and ETP sector extended its lead in terms of assets over the global hedge fund industry to USD2.54 trillion at the end of Q3 2019, an increase of 2.52 per cent since of Q2 2019, according to ETFGI.
