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Altana Wealth, the credit, currency and special situations-focused hedge fund led by former Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, is circling the restructuring and consolidation opportunities arising from the rebound in demand for oil and gas post-Covid.
Apex Group Ltd has entered into a joint venture with VCP Advisors, a provider of financial, advisory and capital raising services for corporate and fund manager clients.
VCP Advisors works with companies as well as closed-ended and open-ended funds across the private equity, private credit, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and hedge fund asset classes, to provide advisory, capital raising and restructuring services to the institutional and family office investor community.
As part of this strategic partnership, VCP Advisors will re-brand as Apex VCP, enabling clients to benefit from VCP’s impressive track record in alternative asset management advisory, in
JTC, a global professional services business, has acquired Segue Partners (Segue), a fund services provider head-quartered in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
The initial consideration will be settled in cash and JTC equity. A further consideration is available on the achievement of performance targets in 2022 and 2023.
Michelle Murray, Managing Director and Founder of Segue Partners, created the business in 2010 and has led its successful growth since. Murray is a highly respected financial services professional and entrepreneur with over 28 years’ experience in venture capital and public accounting industries.
Segue differentiates its offering based on quality of service and
Currency-focused investment manager Millennium Global Investments has launched a new systematic long/short currency hedge fund strategy to tap into burgeoning demand for non-correlated returns in what it calls a “favourable” investment environment.
By Juan Cruz (pictured), Founding Partner and CIO, Cygnus Asset Management – On the path towards a net zero emissions world, some sectors will multiply their activity (multiples), others will reduce it substantially (fractions), and others will disappear (zeros). How can hedge funds and other asset managers navigate the emerging investment opportunities?
Net assets of UCITS and AIFs increased by 4.1 per cent in Q2 2021, taking total net new money in H1 2021 to EUR430 billion, according to the latest quarterly European statistics from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
UCITS net assets grew by 4.5 per cent and net assets of AIFs grew by 3.4 per cent as they cross the EUR20 trillion threshold.
Net sales of UCITS amounted to EUR210 billion, and net inflows into AIFs amounted to 18 billion. During the first half of 2021, UCITS and AIFs attracted EUR430 billion in net new money.
BSO, in partnership with Geneva-based ImpactScope, a social enterprise providing carbon offsetting solutions to digital asset exchanges and crypto mining companies, has become the first connectivity provider to offer clients that trade cryptocurrencies the means to calculate and offset the excess carbon emissions of their operations.
The criticism of cryptocurrencies’ energy consumption and its related carbon footprint is a major challenge for all players in the crypto space and is being addressed at both a corporate and regulatory level by mandates such as the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which comes into force in January 2022. In line
With hedge funds’ year-to-date returns rebounding back into double-digit territory, new industry data published on Monday shows how emerging markets managers are helping to galvanise the industry and fuel recent gains.
CTAs and trend-following hedge fund strategies have experienced a sluggish start to September, having had a disappointing August in what Société Générale describes as a “challenging environment” for the sector.
Gordian Capital has announced the multi-country launch of GSB Equity Long Short Fund managed by Geoffrey Bennett of GSB Capital, LLC in San Francisco.
The Fund invests in high concentration, high conviction large and mid- cap Japanese equities. The market neutral strategy has been employed managing separately managed accounts and has a five-year track record. Capacity in the strategy is limited to USD650 million. In an industry-first, a leading Japanese corporate pension fund is seeding the Fund via a discretionary investment mandate awarded to Gordian Capital Japan.
Bennett, the Fund’s Founder and Portfolio Manager has focused on the Japanese markets
