Hashdex, a global crypto-focused asset manager, has hired Benjamin Ittah as European senior sales and distribution manager. In this newly created role, Ittah will be responsible for Hashdex’ sales development in Europe, focusing on both growing the firm’s expanding client
SureFire Capital, a Canadian multi-strategy hedge fund manager, returned 22.1% in April, with preliminary figures also indicating a 10%-plus uplift in May, according to a report by AlternativesWatch. SureFire Multi-Strat LP, the Montrreal-based firm’s quantitative stray, focuses on the Nasdaq-100
The European Power Spot market, operated by EPEX SPOT, recorded a trading volume of 49.7 TWh in May. The Intraday Markets increased by 2%, totaling to 10.9 TWh. The European Power Derivatives Market reached 268.1 TWh during the last month
The tech stock rout continues to hit hedge funds hard with Maverick and Lone Pine both seeing falls of around 30% so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg. The funds, run by Lee Ainslie and Steve Mandel,
Alternative credit specialist CIFC Asset Management (CIFC) has appointed Conor Daly, former managing director, head of European credit at Onex credit, as head of European credit.
Hedge fund equity ownership – measured as an aggregate of 13F filings – decreased dramatically from December 2021 to May 2022 from $4.225 trillion to $3.434 trillion – a drop of 18.72%, according to data release by SEI Novus. Th
Coinciding with the company’s 10-year anniversary of factor investing in credits, Robeco has launched RobecoSAM QI Global SDG & Climate Multi-Factor Credits, its first SDG and climate-focused quant fixed income strategy, classified as Article 9 under the SFDR. While the
Jensen Investment Management, a 100% employee-owned high-conviction equity investment management firm, has appointed Shannon Contreras to Jensen Investment Management’s Board of Directors. Contreras joined Jensen in 2014 and has been the firm’s director of finance and senior compliance officer. She
Bosonic, a decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI) business has launched the Bosonic Cross-Custodian Net Settlement (CCNS) Working Group with several of the industry’s leading digital asset custodians, exchanges and banks. The industry group will be spearheaded by Bosonic and will
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent fund administrator in the alternative investment space, has selected NTT Ltd as its managed cloud services provider.
