Somerset Capital Management (Somerset Capital), has appointed Mark Williams as co-manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund. Williams joins Somerset Capital from Liontrust Investment Partners, where he has been Head of Asia Pacific Equities and the Manager of
Man Group has launched its first onshore investment strategy for qualified investors in China. The new investment strategy will leverage the experience of Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment management business, to harness market trends across a range of
FTSE Russell’s decision to include Chinese sovereign bonds in its flagship government bond index could offer hedge fund investors fresh alpha-generating and AUM-raising opportunities amid a wave of overseas capital inflows into the market. FTSE Russell said last month it
Digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin has rolled out its long-awaited DeFi index, which is now available on BTSE as a perpetual swap contract. BTSE is a fast-growing, multi-currency spot and futures trading platform launched in 2018 by
Meraki Global Advisors has appointed David C Laub Jr as a senior trader in the New York office. Meraki’s client base has expanded among the tri-state multi-asset hedge fund community since the establishment of its New York outpost in April
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exempted certain multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and organised trading facilities (OTFs) authorised within the European Union (EU) from the requirement to register with the CFTC as swap execution facilities (SEFs). The order will
Ideal Prediction (Ideal), a trading analysis and data science company for the capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board. Fieldman says: “Having spent the past 16 years at Broadway Technology leading the transformation of
WHP Global (WHP), a new brand management platform led by Chairman & CEO Yehuda Shmidman has launched backed by a USD200 million equity commitment from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management (Oaktree). WHP was founded to acquire and manage multiple
Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, has launched public access to its platform which connects the diverse group of participants involved in today’s crypto-asset market structure – institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders and
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has launched a new online investor portal aimed at providing the firm’s clients with a co-investment service, greater visibility into their holdings and a level of transparency on underlying private assets that is
