Brown Advisory, a USD76 billion, employee-owned, global investment firm, has launched the Global Leaders Sustainable Fund under its Dublin-UCITS umbrella. The new UCITS Fund adds environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens to Brown Advisory’s top quartile performing Global Leaders Strategy.
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
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
JP Morgan Asset Management has held the final closing of its Lynstone Special Situations Fund (Lynstone), with USD1.06 billion in capital raised from a broad set of global investors comprising of pension funds, insurance companies, banks, foundations, endowments and family
Vanguard Asset Management (Vanguard), a provider of high-value investment services, has launched the Vanguard Active UK Equity Fund. The Vanguard Active UK Equity Fund is designed for investors seeking exposure to UK companies at a low cost. It will employ
Envestnet | PMC, the Portfolio Management Consultants group of Envestnet, has launched three new Impact QPs. The entire suite of QPs recently surpassed USD1 billion in total assets under management. The Impact Small Cap Core Portfolio-ESG, Impact International ADR Portfolio-ESG,
Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) is launching a new a technology-focused long/short strategy on its alternative UCITS platform in partnership with New York-based alternative investment manager Shannon River Capital Management (Shannon River). U Access (IRL) Shannon River UCITS is managed by
RWC Partners has launched the RWC Diversified Return Fund after the hiring of the senior members of multi-strategy specialists Agilis Investment Management LLP. The Diversified Returns Team led by Clark Fenton, along with colleagues Charles Crowson and Praveen Kanakamedala, has
Cryptocurrency research firm Crypto Fund Research reports that prices for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are off about 50 per cent from their December 2017 highs and the SEC has announced its intent to investigate over 100 crypto hedge funds.
Simmons & Simmons has advised Crake Asset Management on the launch of its new London management business and its global long-short equities hedge fund structure, one of the largest European launches of 2019. Richard Walker, CEO of Crake, says: “We
