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REDD Intelligence (REDD), a fixed-income intelligence and analytics platform focused exclusively on the emerging markets, will now provide subscribers with a news and analysis service covering green and sustainable bonds issued by emerging market borrowers.
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Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has made two new appointments to its Sustainable Equity strategy team.
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Crypto Finance Group has implemented its brokerage solution for crypto assets for some of Avaloq’s banking clients.
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The team behind digital market infrastructure specialist Custody Digital, have launched Ledgermatic, a push to modernise corporate treasury solutions.
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Darien Group, a branding and communications agency serving alternative investment managers, has appointed two executives, Lauren De Paola and Timothy Leung, and promoted of Olena Moiseeva, to partner.
These appointments significantly expand the firm’s service offerings, adding deeper expertise on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Investor Relations advisory to existing strengths in brand development, capital raise materials, website development, and video production services.
“Lauren and Tim’s capabilities, pedigrees, and standards of excellence are transformative to Darien Group’s development and maturation,” says Charlie Ittner, Managing Partner of Darien Group. “In our first five years, we established our firm as the
Benjamin B Allensworth has rejoined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as counsel. Allensworth will be a member of the Firm’s Asset Management Group, focusing his practice on advising investment advisers, private funds, hybrid regulated fund products (including business development companies), and broker-dealers on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters, and will be based in Washington, DC.
He previously served as Managing Director & Counsel for Tax and Finance at the Managed Funds Association (MFA), the leading industry trade organisation of the global hedge fund industry, for 13 years. Prior to that, he was an associate in Willkie’s Washington office.
“Ben has
Digital asset investment product inflows lhit a record total of USD1.31 billion last week, following a period of minor outflows, according to CoinShares.
ACDX is launching the Bull Bear Strike Token (BBS), a leveraged derivatives product that combines perpetual futures and options.
“The current specifications of most derivatives products are too complicated. At ACDX, we want to simplify the whole process to make crypto investment user-friendly for both beginner and sophisticated traders. Busy traders nowadays yearn for an all-rounded yet simple product. That’s how the idea of BBS arises. Moreover, as traders’ appetite for cryptocurrencies continues to escalate, ACDX believes the demand for structured crypto products will follow suit,” says Andy Cheung, Founder of ACDX.
If a trader has a principal of 1
The world’s 20 biggest hedge fund firms took home around half of all gains made by the entire industry last year, as successful stock-picking and individual manager skill sent returns soaring among the sector’s behemoths, leaving quant-based strategies in their wake.
Overall, the hedge fund industry generated UD127 billion net of fees last year, according to new research by LCH Investments, a fund of hedge funds which is part of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Some USD63.5 billion of that total was generated by the top 20 largest hedge fund managers, including the likes of Tiger Global, Millennium Management, and
Managed futures hedge funds have made a positive early start to the year, following a tough 12 months in which volatility spikes and see-saw performances in many assets made it tricky for computer-based strategies to capitalise on market trends.
Two out of the three daily CTA indices produced by Société Générale were in the black entering the final week of January.
The main SocGen CTA Index, which measures the daily performance of a select pool of 20 of the largest managed futures strategies, has advanced 1.43 per cent since the start of 2021.
The gain continues the index’s recent positive
