By A Paris – Following a year of high exuberance, the market for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) has slowed since peaking in mid-February 2021. Now, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) changing accounting rules and vowing to keep a
Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has acquired Tzur Management (Tzur), a fund administration services provider with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and New York. This strategic deal further enhances Apex’s geographic reach and ability to deliver high quality
AxiaFunder, Europe’s first for-profit litigation funding platform, has secured GBP1.9 milliion from investors since launching in January 2019, with a 100 per cent success rate on completed cases. Co-founded by investment banker Cormac Leech and entrepreneur Sophie Liu, AxiaFunder has
Hedge fund performance was broadly positive in April, with 85 per cent of funds reporting to eVestment seeing positive performance figures and the industry as a whole posting a return of +2.61 per cent for the month, according to the
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is set to start the admission process for the sell-off of nEHS certificates within the national Emissions Trading Scheme (“nEHS”) in coordination with the German Federal Environment Agency. The instrument will set a CO2 price
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, has reported July 2021 market statistics, including average daily volume (ADV) of 17.1 million contracts during the month, the highest ever recorded. Interest rate monthly ADV increased 96 per
Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy hedge fund vehicle remains flat for the year after ending July close to zero, with its equities-focused strategies suffering negative performance last month. Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) fell 0.1 per cent in July in both
KB Associates (KBA), a professional services firm advising investment funds and asset managers, has completed its acquisition of EFG Fund Management, a Luxembourg-based management company and subsidiary of EFG International AG, the Swiss Private Banking Group (EFG). The transaction was
EM sovereign credit initiated a rebound at the turn of the quarter (+3 per cent QTD) as Treasuries bounced back after having registered the worst quarterly returns since the early 1980s (-4.3 per cent for the Barclays US Treasuries in
Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto index fund manager with over USD1.0 billion in AUM, has launched the Bitwise Uniswap (UNI) Fund and the Bitwise Aave (AAVE) Fund. These two new strategies join the Bitwise DeFi Crypto Index Fund in simplifying
