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Premialab, an independent data and risk analytics platform used by institutional investors looking to monitor, manage and diversify their global portfolios, has signed a strategic partnership with European VC firm Balderton Capital, as it opens its first office in the UK.
Allvue Systems (Allvue), a specialist alternative investment technology solutions provider, has agreed with GOT YOUR BACK to provide fund accounting software for its alternatives fund management clients. GOT YOUR BACK is a specialist fund and corporate services provider based in Sweden whose clients include managers of private equity and other alternative investment funds.
Hedge funds have recorded their strongest two-month run of investor inflows since 2014, with multi-strategy managers attracting the strongest interest so far this year, according to new research by eVestment.
Allocators poured some USD16.44 billion into hedge fund strategies throughout February, which helped push total net inflows so far this year to USD23.74 billion. At the same time, strong positive performance for managers since the start of this year has brought hedge fund industry’s overall AUM to USD3.407 trillion.
Multi-strategy hedge funds have been the biggest draw for investors, attracting USD8.98 billion in the first two months of 2021, which
Funds from CANDRIAM are now available to FinecoBank customers via its investing platform.
CANDRIAM is a global multi-asset manager focused on sustainable and responsible investment It offers diversified investment solutions in fixed income, innovative thematic equities, absolute performance strategies, asset allocation and alternatives including real estate and private credit.
This new partnership means that CANDRIAM will join a range of other leading platform providers on Fineco’s investing platform including Carmignac, Robeco, JP Morgan Asset Management, Fidelity Investments, Aberdeen Investments, M&G Investments, and Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
Paolo Di Grazia, deputy general manager, Fineco, says: “This collaboration strengthens our sustainable investing
Fifty per cent of investors believe that government bonds have currently lost their function as a counterbalance to stocks and as a safe haven, according to a survey by investment company Tungsten Capital.
Leveraging on its existing offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, Privium will expand its business development activities to Shanghai on 5 April this year.
Given China’s continuing market reforms and gradual financial sector liberalisation, Shanghai’s role as international financial centre is taking shape. In light of the country’s rapidly growing asset management industry, Chinese fund managers are increasingly looking at expanding their operations abroad. Privium is able to facilitate their ambitions with business development support in Shanghai as well as fully licensed offices in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Privium’s Group CEO Clayton Heijman, says: “China has been a key focus
Delta Exchange, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, has raised USD5 million from industry-leading investors in a private sale for DETO, the platform’s native token.
Participating investors include Sino Global, Aave Ventures, CoinFund, Kyber Network, Spartan, QCP Soteria, LuneX Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, BR Capital etc.
Delta Exchange offers Perpetual Swaps, Futures, and Options on Bitcoin and over 60 altcoins with up to 100x leverage. The exchange also offers advanced derivatives products such as interest rate swaps and calendar spreads on Bitcoin and is the first to launch a marketplace for retail traders to discover and subscribe to battle-tested algo trading strategies.
CME Group is to expand its suite of crypto derivatives with the introduction of a new Micro Bitcoin futures contract on 3 May, pending regulatory review.
Micro Bitcoin futures will be one-tenth the size of one bitcoin. The smaller-sized contract will provide market participants – from institutions to sophisticated, active, individual traders – with one more tool to hedge their spot bitcoin price risk or execute bitcoin trading strategies in an efficient, cost-effective way, all while retaining the features and benefits of CME Group’s standard Bitcoin futures.
“Since the launch of our Bitcoin futures contract in 2017, we have
Aslan House Capital, a London-based event driven equity and credit-focused hedge fund, has grown its assets under management to USD190 million following a strategic investment from asset management seeder Investcorp-Tages.
The firm, which invests across a range of hard event-driven equity and credit catalyst situations predominantly in Europe, has also broadened its investor base with additional commitments from several global institutions.
Launched in November 2019 by Luke Lynch, former deputy chief investment officer and managing partner at Oceanwood Capital, Aslan House’s strategy aims to generate alpha using a differentiated, uncorrelated and scalable investment approach.
Specifically, the fund trades three strategies
In this latest podcast, we discuss how social media platforms are influencing asset managers, and how they themselves are them to improve client engagement and build brand awareness. The opportunities are huge… but so are the risks to getting it wrong.
