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Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is partnering with CarVal Investors (CarVal) to develop a new line of high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) ESG products, as part of the CarVal Clean product line.
This will mark the second deployment of Insig AI’s and CarVal’s jointly developed ESG technology. This comes as the demand for data-led ESG investment strategies that provide transparent and evidence-based ESG scoring, continues to grow.
Steve Cracknell, Chief Executive of Insig AI, says: “This partnership and our ability to help CarVal accelerate the development of
Investors diverted an additional USD16.6 billion to hedge funds in June. The month’s inflows represented 0.4 per cent of assets and continued an inflow trend that saw USD36 billion in new assets in May, USD23.3 billion in April and USD19.1 billion in March, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
A USD16.8 billion June trading profit brought total hedge fund industry assets to more than USD4.32 trillion.
“As positive economic trends continued, investors saw opportunity in hedge funds in June,” says Ben Crawford, Head of Research at BarclayHedge. “Rallies in equity and
Gordian Capital has launched the Japan Catalyst Fund sub-advised by Tokyo based, Japan Catalyst, Inc, a 100 per cent subsidiary of listed Monex Group (TSE 8698).
Japan Catalyst invests in listed Japanese equities, seeking to generate outsized investment returns by leading the transformation of Japanese companies using a constructive approach in engagement with the senior management of these firms. The launch of the Cayman domiciled fund follows the successful launch in April 2020 of a domestic fund, the Monex Activist Mother Fund, which has generated, since inception, a net return of +43.2 per cent (end July 2021) and an excess
DeFi Technologies has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) to acquire 100 per cent of the issued and outstanding securities of Protos Asset Management (Protos).
Protos, through its various funds and investment structures, gives investors exposure to professionally managed portfolios of cryptocurrency assets and DeFi networks. The founders have 18 combined years of investing in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Protos Quant accounts aim to systematically reduce risk while growing the size of its clients portfolios relative to their BTC & ETH benchmarks.
In 2017, Protos raised the first tokenised quantitative crypto fund, issuing the PRTS token (one of the first
Structured credit is a “naturally ESG-friendly” asset class, owing to its focus on real asset financing, underlying loan transparency, and strict governance on structures, BlueBay Asset Management portfolio managers said this week.
Global investment manager AllianceBernstein (AB) has established a strategic partnership with LSV Advisors (LSV), a special situations secondaries firm focused on liquidity solutions for hedge fund, private equity, and other alternative investment funds.
The new partnership will enhance investment offerings for the firm’s private wealth business, Bernstein Private Wealth Management. The goal of the partnership is to provide clients access to LSV’s investment strategy to enhance their diversification in alternative investments. As a part of the broader strategic partnership, AB will become the exclusive private wealth partner for LSV.
Founded in 2005, LSV is a pioneer in providing liquidity solutions
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for July 2021 measured -0.34 per cent.
More than three in five (61 per cent) of Swiss asset managers – including hedge and other fund managers, institutional investors and wealth advisers – plan to cut their exposure to bonds over the next year, according to new research( commissioned by Managing Partners Group (MPG), the Geneva-based international asset management group.
Only one in six (17 per cent) plan to increase their exposure over that time and 22 per cent will keep it about the same.
Just over seven in 10 (71 per cent) of those planning to reduce exposure to bonds will redirect the investments to real estate,
iCapital Network has expanded its relationship with Bridgewater Associates (Bridgewater), a specialist in institutional portfolio management, and the world’s largest hedge fund.
Under this agreement, iCapital will provide a customised technology platform to give registered investment advisors (“RIAs”) and family offices seamless access to Bridgewater’s strategies for their ultra-high-net-worth clients in the US.
“Creating opportunities for wealth advisors and their qualified clients to access institutional-quality investments has always been our core mission at iCapital,” says Lawrence Calcano, Chairman and CEO of iCapital Network. “We are excited to partner with such a prominent team as Bridgewater to bring access to these
The biggest hedge fund managers outflanked the wider industry in July, with larger managers edging into the black and the broader sector suffering its first down month since the start of 2021.
