Artivest, a financial technology firm based in New York, and Altegris, an alternative investment manager based in San Diego, have successfully closed their previously announced merger. The merged company, named Artivest, is headquartered in New York and California. Artivest serves
Apex Group (Apex) has completed the acquisition of Deutsche Bank Alternative Fund Services (Deutsche Bank AFS), adding USD170 billion in assets under administration to the Group’s portfolio in the process. First announced in October 2017, the acquisition of Deutsche Bank AFS
Hedge funds posted their second consecutive month of gains, up 0.33 per cent in May and 0.48 per cent year-to-date. Performance has varied sharply with small to medium sized hedge funds delivering gains while funds managing in excess of
BACCI Investment Solutions, a discretionary financial services provider based in South Africa, has launched its inaugural Irish UCITS fund, the BACCI Global Equity Fund, on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform. The UCITS compliant fund aims to achieve optimal and
Injective Protocol, a fully decentralised derivatives exchange protocol, has raised USD2.6 million dollars in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital with participation from institutional investors including QCP’s investment arm QCP Soteria, Axia8 Ventures, and OK’s strategic investment partner
Olga Chernova, is founder and CIO of Sancus Capital, a long short credit manager and one of the leading female figures in the credit space. Raised in the former Soviet Union, she moved to the United States when she was
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has held the final closing of a cEUR250 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO), known as Harvest CLO XXIV DAC (Harvest XXIV).
Hedge fund investors are evenly split over how satisfied they are with the industry’s performance this year, according to a new industry poll by investment consultant bfinance. bfinance’s mid-year asset owner survey, ‘Managing through Uncertainty’, quizzed a range of investors
New Switzerland-based index provider LIMEYARD has launched its Crypto Asset Index, together with Decentriq, a FinTech enabling financial institution, to benefit from distributed ledger technology based in the Swiss crypto valley. LIMEYARD writes that the LIMEYARD Crypto Asset Index (LYCAI)
Fulcrum Asset Management, the USD4.4 billion London-based multi-asset manager, is preparing to launch two new hedge fund strategies – an equity diversifier fund and a market neutral offering. The two funds, Fulcrum Equity Dispersion and Fulcrum Thematic Equity Market Neutral, are
