Ironshield Capital Management (Ironshield), a European event-driven corporate credit specialist, delivered positive performance of 30 per cent in 2021. The firm’s AUM stood at USD308 million as at 31 December 2021, across its three funds: L1 Special Situations, L2 Special
SigTech, a quant technologies provider, has seen multi-fold growth in 2021. Clients with combined AUM of over USD5 trillion in are now using its enterprise SaaS platform in over a dozen countries including mainland China.
Quilter Cheviot has strengthened its fund research team with the hire of Ghazanfar Saleem as a fund research analyst. Reporting to head of investment fund research Nick Wood, Saleem will be responsible for the analysis of alternative funds, including hedge
Total hedge fund industry capital has passed the USD4 trillion milestone to begin 2022, with managers navigating a volatile Q4 21 driven by another wave of coronavirus variant, as well as rising interest rates and increased expectations for additional increases
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners as promoted three senior investment professionals to the role of Partner: Jim Dunbar, Aneek Mamik and Carlos Sanz Esteve.
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and
Ocorian, the financial services group and provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets and regulatory & compliance services, has been shortlisted as Best Offshore Administrator in the Hedgeweek European Awards. Ocorian provides bespoke technology-led specialist fund services to private
Qontigo, a provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions has entered into a partnership with RepRisk, a pioneer and leader in ESG data science, whereby Qontigo will enable solutions and access to RepRisk ESG risk data via Axioma portfolio
Modus.Trade, a crypto specialist investor network, has selected Gold-i Ltd to manage its entire technology infrastructure. This includes providing access to crypto market makers and clearing using the Gold-i Crypto Switch 2.0 and supporting Modus.Trade’s MT5 trading platform. Modus.Trade
Investors are ‘extraordinarily complacent’ about the macro risks currently facing emerging markets, but idiosyncratic investment opportunities still abound, says Andrew Swan, manager of the Man GLG Asia (ex Japan) Equity strategy. Swan, whose strategy launched in October 2020, says investors
