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AKJt Holdings Limited (AKJt), an affiliate of AK Jenson Group (AKJ), a provider of turnkey trading and infrastructure solutions for fund managers, has acquired RiskCap Ltd.
RiskCap was formed in 2013 and offers services including governance, risk management, and regulatory and AML/CFT compliance. Clients include electronic money institutions and payment institutions, MiFID firms, insurance firms and funds with a collective EUR5 billion in assets under management. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, will allow AKJ and AKJt to expand its product suite by integrating RiskCap’s expertise into existing full-service solutions for funds trading in both traditional and digital
Falcon Investment Management and ex-JP Morgan strategist Arman Salavitabar are launching a US equity-focused long/short hedge fund on the London-based firm’s multi-manager investment platform.
The Sala Vita L/S Equity Fund brings together human analysis and machine learning algorithms, combining systematic equity selection and market timing signals to manage a long/short portfolio of single stocks.
The new fund, which targets uncorrelated, absolute returns of more than 10 per annum through trading S&P 500 names, will be positioned to outperform in high-volatility market environments in order to complement investors’ broader equity portfolios.
“Capital markets are just starting to see the type of
Hedge funds are continuing to profit from the ongoing surge in cryptocurrencies, as more managers pour money into digital assets’ record rise this year.
Hedge funds trading blockchain digital currency and distributed ledger technologies, as measured by Hedge Fund Research’s Blockchain Composite Index, soared over 48 per cent in January, opening 2021 in style after gaining a remarkable 189 per cent last year.
Meanwhile, HFR’s Cryptocurrency Index – a performance-based benchmark of fundamental and quantitative hedge funds that trade cryptocurrencies directly, including bitcoin, ether, litecoin, as well as new initial coin offerings – was also up more than 48 per cent in
Telos, the second most active blockchain platform in the world, with over 600,000 accounts, has created a new bridge to Ethereum in coordination with plans to list its new ERC-20 token on Uniswap in March.
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Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in technology solutions for equity, equity options, futures and digital asset trading, has reported record growth companywide in 2020.
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Cobalt, a provider of risk and settlement infrastructure, has partnered with EPAM Systems, a global provider of digital platform engineering and development services, to create an institutional-grade FIX gateway for the digital asset markets – providing connectivity to over 50 digital asset exchanges and market makers.
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Utopia Genesis Foundation, an organisation formed to support the development of an open platform for the music industry, has appointed Rick Heffernan as Head of Business Development.
Heffernan, with over 18 years of music industry experience, will join a diverse and passionate group of talented professionals working towards achieving transparency and creativity in a new framework.
“Our strategy will be aimed at cultivating awareness and onboarding new artists to gain widespread adoption. We’re on the frontier of what is effectively still a new category for the music industry and what will be an important tool moving forward,” says Heffernan, Head
Truss Edge, a technology and consulting business for hedge funds, ETFs and family offices, has added further enhancements to its technology services, including new charting, risk management and reconciliations features.
Truss Edge has implemented significant modernisation of its graphical presentation capabilities by replacing its original charting tools with new charting capabilities. These are designed to allow users to provide clearer views of complex and often significant amounts of data in a more digestible manner.
The modern charting features have been initially applied to the Truss Edge reporting utility and have replaced the previous charting features. At the same time, the
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2021 measured -0.33 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.87 per cent in February.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index rose 0.87 per cent for February 2021, reflecting positive net flows. On a comparative basis, the 0.87 per cent increase reported for February 2021 exceeded the 0.66 per cent gain reported for the same period a year ago,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Covid-19’s impact on markets first strongly evidenced itself approximately one
While closing 2020 up 30.93 per cent, Quantumrock’s flagship strategy Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP) fell by 0.2 per cent in January.
Michael Zeller, CIO, says: “The market experienced a bumpy road in January. While the S&P500 rallied over 2 per cent in the first half of January, it tumbled -3.3 per cent during the last week of the month amid a short-squeeze on short-sellers and mixed technology earnings.
The distribution of VSOP’s returns shows significantly smaller negative tails than the S&P500. This tail behaviour can be fully attributed to the VSOP’s alpha strategies, which have resulted in less
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