Amun AG, a Swiss fintech aiming to facilitate access to crypto-asset investments, has completed its first funding round, bringing on board a number of experienced industry figures including Adam Draper, Founder of Boost VC, Graham Tuckwell, Founder of ETFS Capital,
The exhausting momentum of the year-to-date rally, ECB’s downward revisions of its economic forecasts and frictions in US-China trade negotiations sent markets in the red this week, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Hedge
The shareholders of PLUS Markets Group have approved the sale of PLUS Stock Exchange to ICAP. ICAP will now work to complete the acquisition as soon as possible. This transaction gives the companies quoted on PLUS the security and confidence
A group of investors led by Värde Partners and Guber Banca, working with Barclays as their financial institution partner, have acquired a non-performing loan portfolio originated by 22 mutual, rural, and cooperative banks spread throughout Italy. The gross book value
Refinitiv has appointed Leon Saunders Calvert as Head of Sustainable Investing & Fund Ratings, a newly created role that brings together Refinitiv’s ESG Sustainable Investing and Lipper Fund Ratings businesses to increase focus on unearthing links between sustainable business strategies
Spring Valley Asset Management (SVAM) has launched the SVAM Diversified Alpha Portfolio, a multi-dimensional, systematic trading system which applies creative modelling techniques to a rich set of fundamental and technical features across short, medium, and long-term horizons (from one day
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for February 2019 measured 1.24 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.21 per cent in March. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index
Early estimates indicate that the HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average, an equal-weighted benchmark of all single manager hedge funds and CTA/managed futures products in the 8,000 fund-strong
Geneva-based Alix Capital, provider of the UCITS Alternative Index family of indices has added another suite of indices following the announcement
Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) is launching a new strategy on its alternative UCITS platform. Launched in partnership with New York-based alternative investment manager Global Credit Advisers (GCA), U Access (IRL) GCA Credit Long/Short UCITS is a credit long/short
