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Aspect Capital, a systematic investment manager, is further expanding its use of OpenGamma’s derivatives analytics across the range of markets it trades.
OpenGamma’s analytics track risk exposure and help maintain fund liquidity. OpenGamma’s breadth of coverage for exchange and broker margin methodologies has made it the partner of choice for Aspect Capital since 2018.
Aspect Capital is always seeking new opportunities, and trading new markets comes with hidden challenges. For example, futures and options contracts trade on local country exchanges, and each exchange has its own specific approach for calculating derivatives margin.
To help control risk and manage
Man Group, the publicly-quoted London-headquartered global hedge fund group, has seen its funds under management hit record highs, with its hedge funds and alternative strategies posting strong performances amid 2020’s unprecedented coronavirus-fuelled turbulence, despite a fall in annual pre-tax profits for the company.
The FTSE250-listed group’s funds under management surged to a new high of USD123.6 billion last year – a USD5.9 billion rise from the USD117.7 billion recorded at the end of 2019.
While its investment performance totalled USD3.3 billion in 2020, down from USD10.1 billion the previous year, Man attracted net investor inflows of USD1.8 billion, which reversed
International professional services provider, Equiom, has appointed Gavin Devitt as Head of Client Solutions, Fund Governance.
Based in London, Devitt has overall responsibility for promoting Equiom’s fund services globally, drawing on its capabilities and expertise across key funds markets such as the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Crown Dependencies. His appointment comes hot on the heels of Equiom’s recent acquisition of an Irish Fund Management Company.
Devitt says: “I am excited to join a business with a truly global reach and at such an interesting time in the industry right now – Brexit, Ireland’s new Investment Limited
TraditionDATA, the data arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition (Tradition), has hired Michael Kirby as a senior member of the Data Sales team in the Americas.
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The USD6 trillion foreign exchange (FX) industry is in the midst of a tech revolution, with cloud computing and trading technology upgrades set to become the sector’s major disruptors in 2021 and beyond, according to new independent research commissioned by Integral, a provider of FX SaaS technology solutions and trading platforms.
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Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has today announced plans to expand its Irish operations with the launch of a dedicated Funds business in Ireland.
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has assigned BBB Issuer ratings to three multi-strategy hedge funds: Kensington Global Strategies Ltd (KGSF), Kensington Global Strategies Fund II (KGSF II), Ltd, and Citadel Wellington LLC (Wellington), and a BBB Senior Unsecured rating to USD500 million of notes issued by Citadel Finance.
The notes are guaranteed on a several, but not joint, basis by KGSF II, Wellington, and KGSF Offshore Holdings Ltd (wholly-owned subsidiary of KGSF). The guarantor funds are managed by Citadel Advisors, LLC, the investment management subsidiary of Citadel Group.
Citadel Group, headquartered in Chicago, is a global hedge fund with a
Ambienta, a sustainability-focused European asset manager, has made two senior appointments – William Kitchin becomes the Head of Business Development for Ambienta X, the firm’s public markets division, while Michele Romualdi has been appointed Head of Sales Italy.
Kitchin and Romualdi joined the firm in February and March 2021 respectively and will report directly to Nino Tronchetti Provera, Managing Partner and Founder of Ambienta.
Kitchin joins Ambienta from Titan Capital Management, where he has been Director of Marketing since 2018. Prior to this, Kitchin was Vice-President at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for due diligence and monitoring all European-based
Q&A with Dr Kyle Scerri (pictured), Regulated Industries and Compliance Advisor at CSB Group, a member of FinanceMalta…
How will the EU regulatory framework for digital assets impact Malta’s offer in the space?
The introduction of a proposed level playing field across the EU through the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (“MiCA”), will undoubtedly test Malta’s competitive advantage among promoters and service providers seeking a regulated forum for the issuance and establishment of digital assets. This, however, is a challenge which should be met with optimism rather than scepticism. Malta’s regulatory bodies and industry professionals have gained industry know-how by actively being
With the shape of the post-pandemic recovery still in flux, London-based quantitative hedge fund firm Aspect Capital believes its computer-driven global macro strategy is well positioned to capitalise on both short-term market dislocations and medium-term trends this year, as well as benefitting from relative value opportunities amid the varying recovery speeds.
