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Inflows into digital asset investment products totalled USD233 million last week, the largest inflows since early March, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Fund Flows Report.
While price action last week pushed assets under management to over USD65 billion for the first time.
XRP has been the most popular with weekly inflows of USD33 million, nearly doubling its assets under management to USD83 million.
Ethereum continued to see outsized inflows relative to its market capitalisation of USD65 million. Inflows were also seen in bitcoin cash (USD4 million), polkadot (USD5 million), binance (USD3 million), tezos (USD7 million), and multi-asset (USD6
Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), the fast growing investment manager connecting traditional finance with the digital assets market, has appointed Simeon Tsonev as a Senior Option Trader.
Tsonev joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management, where he was a currencies portfolio manager in its emerging markets fixed income team. Prior to that role, Tsonev worked in FX options trading at Credit Suisse, where he had market making responsibilities for emerging markets currency options.
Tsonev started his career at Merrill Lynch and subsequently worked as an interest rates quantitative trader at DE Shaw & Co. He earned a BA in Economics &
Global macro hedge fund Arete Capital Partners is tilting towards shorter-duration assets amid an evolving rate environment which carries far-reaching consequences for inflation and the cost of capital.
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Tom Mowl as a Portfolio Manager within its Structured Credit and CLO Management team.
Based in London, Tom reports to Sid Chhabra, Head of Structured Credit and CLO Management and will be focusing on investing in US and European Structured Credit securities across the capital structure.
In the past year, the team has added five new hires, reinforcing its growing capabilities within the Structured Credit and CLO space.
Speaking about Mowl’s appointment, Sid Chhabra, says: “Tom is a highly experienced Structured Credit investor. The addition of Tom and several other
AAAccell, an LPA Group company, has enhanced its suite of AI-based investment risk analysis and portfolio optimisation tools through a partnership with Swisscom, a major Swiss IT provider.
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The US’s semi-transparent ETF structure arrived in the sector early last year, with a bit of a fanfare, as American Century successfully launched two ETFs using Precidian Investments’ ActiveShares methodology.
RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Michael Hanus, CFA as the firm’s new Senior Managing Director of Distribution.
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Diginex Limited (EQOS), a digital assets financial services company, has announced record total volumes of over USD1 billion in April month to date, with average daily volumes during the period increasing over three times compared to average daily volumes in the prior month.
Managed futures funds turned in a second consecutive monthly gain in March returning 0.32 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
For the year to date, CTAs returned 2.29 per cent through March.
“A strengthening US dollar and a continuing uptrend in equity markets helped fuel CTA gains in March. The USD1.9 trillion Covid Relief bill fed deficit concerns and ignited a rise in US interest rates which, in turn, sparked appeal in USD carry trades against negative yielding currencies,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge.
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A new deep-dive study by SEI examines how the fund management industry’s business chains could become increasingly atomised into disparate networks of hubs and suppliers thanks to advances in tech, potentially mirroring Uber’s sweeping disruption of the cab-hire industry.
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