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Apex Group (Apex) has been appointed to provide full fund administration services to Stockholm-based alternative investment management company Keel Capital AB (Keel Capital).Apex has been mandated to provide full fund administration and depositary and custody services to Keel Capital’s funds under the Apex and European Depositary Bank brands.
Keel Capital is regulated in Sweden as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). Keel Capital’s funds (Alternative Investment Fund Keel Capital S.A – SICAV-SIF Foghorn Fund, Foghorn X2 and Longhorn Fund) are all registered and domiciled in Luxembourg.
This latest client win further demonstrates
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in compliance, risk and infrastructure solutions for equity, options and futures trading, has completed its integration with Linear Investments, a global trading firm and full-service prime broker with offices in London, Hamburg and Dubai.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
KingSwap, a regulated DeFi project introducing a liquidity pool platform with fiat conversions, has raised over USD20 million in funding and liquidity support. KingSwap will go live on Uniswap on Saturday, 31 October, 2020. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
DFG Investment Advisers (DFG), an alternative credit investment manager, has appointed Rehan Virani as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Virani will oversee management of the firm, spearhead strategic fundraising initiatives and develop tailored investment solutions that align investors’ interests with DFG’s core competencies in structured and corporate credit. Virani most recently served as Head of Business Development for private debt for the Americas and Asia at Partners Group.
In connection with Virani’s appointment, DFG is expanding its leadership team with the promotions of Kashyap Arora to Co-Chief Investment Officer, Selma Cilka to Co-Chief Risk Officer, and Alex Nerguizian to
In recent years, the relative underperformance of hedge fund strategies compared to the S&P 500’s returns prompted many institutional investors to cast doubt on the value of this industry to their portfolios.
But the dramatic swings in markets brought about by the coronavirus pandemic this year have proven a wake-up call for investors, according to Nicolas Gaussel, founding partner and CEO of Metori Capital Management – and firmly demonstrates the worth of a non-correlated trend-following strategy to investors.
Paris-based CTA specialist Metori was established in 2017 by a team of former Société Générale and Lyxor Asset Management employees, who spun out
Hedge fund asset management platform provider Brooklands Fund Management is now providing back office support to multi-family offices with a plan to increase the scope of work to more middle office and reporting functions over the course of 2021.
Increased automation of the middle-office, and the use of secure cloud-based platforms should be key priorities for firms amid an increasingly challenging post-trade operations environment exacerbated by this year’s unprecedented market volatility, according to a new report.
TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has completed the first triReduce enhanced compression cycle to include SONIA risk replacement trades. The cycle took place on 22 October, 2020 at LCH SwapClear.
The triReduce benchmark compression service allows swap market participants to reduce their gross and net exposure to legacy benchmarks while increasing their adoption of alternate benchmarks through risk replacement trades.
“This is the first step of an iterative process for our swap market clients as they convert their swaps exposure from legacy benchmark rates,” says Philip Junod, Senior
CMC Markets Institutional – a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions – has extended its liquidity distribution through a partnership with Gold-i.Brokers, banks and hedge funds using Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix, can now access nearly 10,000 different instruments from CMC Markets across a range of asset classes, all at highly competitive rates.
In addition to FX pairs, Gold-i clients can select from a wide range of indices, commodities, treasuries and single stock CFDs. Institutional clients wishing to extend their offering to include digital assets have the option to choose from 15 different cryptocurrency coins and indices.
The sharp dispersion in hedge fund performance is having a more noticeable impact on where investors choose to allocate – and withdraw – their money this year.
New industry research shows that while allocators removed USD9.6 billion from hedge funds during September, they still pledged some USD8 billion to the industry throughout Q3 – the first time since Q1 2018 that hedge funds registered positive quarterly inflows.
And against a backdrop of huge performance dispersion, it is the best-performing managers and strategies which are now attracting the most new capital from allocators.
“The data is showing it over and over
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