Funds
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 funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
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 analytics and risk models, and build indices under its STOXX family of brands.
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 are failing to grasp the potential for falls across emerging markets in an environment where growth is slowing and central banks in developed economies are beginning tightening cycles amid surging inflation.
Swan says investment opportunities can still be found in those parts of EMs beginning to recover from Covid disruption, like Southeast Asia and India. But he says opportunities
London-based investment firm, Twenty20 Capital, has joined forces with MP Alpha Capital — making a cornerstone investment into the firm’s “post-Covid” hedge fund.
Graubündner Kantonalbank (GKB) agreed to acquire a stake of around 30 percent in the independent investment manager Twelve Capital Holding AG (Twelve Capital), which specialises in investments in the insurance sector and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Subject to the approval of the competent authorities, the transaction is expected to close in Q2 2022.
A representative of GKB will serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Twelve Capital.
RWC Partners has changed its operating brand to ‘Redwheel’, marking the next stage of its development as a specialist, independent investment organisation.
The rebrand is part of a full update of the firm’s visual identity, including the launch of a new website.
The business was established in 2000 with the ambition to create an environment in which exceptional fund managers can operate with a high degree of investment autonomy and maximise the benefits of their skills to deliver the best possible long-term outcomes for clients. Today, Redwheel has more than 150 people aligned to that goal, including 56 dedicated
FLX Distribution – a Resource and Asset Management Platform (RAMP) for asset and wealth managers that provides modular-based front office solutions with on-demand resources, services, and investments – has partnered with Oasis, a Paychex company, focused on offering Professional Employer Organisation (PEO) solutions to its members.
Solving familiar HR challenges including high costs, limited options, complexities, and time-consuming personnel management, FLX is now delivering quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions through this FLX-sponsored PEO.
Oasis is one of the leading Professional Employer Organisations (PEO) in the US, providing Human Resource Administration, Employee Benefits, Healthcare Reform (ACA), Payroll Administration and Risk
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), a leading partner to independent investment management firms globally, and Leda Braga, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Systematica, have jointly acquired the remaining minority equity interest in the firm previously owned by a third-party investor.
Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange market, has reported that customers’ average daily volumes (ADV) across the company’s platforms totalled USD44.6 billion in December 2021.
This represents a total increase of 17 per cent YoY, to an annual volume of USD12.4 trillion to finish 2021.
Integral’s cloud-based SaaS FX workflow solutions have been designed to meet the trading needs of the widest variety of buy-side FX market participants, including banks, brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds. Clients leverage the deep and diverse FX liquidity available through our platforms within an integrated environment.
During a year when investors faced the highest inflation readings in 40 years, Red Rock Capital’s Commodity Long-Short investment programme proved its value by producing over 40 per cent net returns for the year for its investors.
Since its inception in September 2013, the diversified commodity program has delivered 10.51 per cent annualised to its investors, net of all fees, as compared to the -7.6 per cent annualised returns produced by the venerable S&P Goldman Sachs Commodities Index.
Chief Investment Officer of Red Rock Capital, Thomas Rollinger, specifically designed the Commodity Long-Short strategy to capture intermittent and sustained price trends
