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RAM Active Investments SA (RAM AI), a systematic asset manager based in Geneva, is launching a fund with the objective of tackling climate change and providing investors an active strategy with strong ESG standards. RAM AI’s ESG approach is the result of extensive research exploring alternative data thanks to the successful development of the RAM AI Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure.
As the climate change emergency continues to grow RAM AI believes its role as an asset manager is to provide investors with a differentiated solution to low-carbon investing.
Emmanuel Hauptmann, who heads the Systematic Equity research, says: “The RAM ML team
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched its Data Lake, which comprises over 1,000 datasets in a single catalogued platform.
As manager of Cheyne Capital’s Thematic Long/Short Fund, Richard Woolf (pictured) brings what he describes as a “healthy dose of scepticism” to his portfolio management style and trading approach.
Pricing dislocations across a broad range of industries and geographies, coupled with an increasingly fragmented macroeconomic landscape stemming from divergent emergency central bank measures, will throw up a wealth of investment opportunities for macro, equity and credit hedge fund strategies in the second half of 2020, K2 Advisors, the global fund advisory unit of Franklin Templeton, has said.
The firm’s third quarter hedge fund strategy outlook pointed to potential economic tailwinds stemming from increased consumer spending post-lockdown, a weakening US dollar, and higher commodity prices.
“In this environment, one might expect the US yield curve to steepen, non-US equities to
Sucden Financial, a global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider, has appointed Alan Burr for LME metals and options trading at its Hong Kong subsidiary.Sucden Financial says Burr’s appointment will help enhance the Hong Kong hub’s market making to add liquidity in the region. He will primarily focus on LME metal products, including options and average price contracts, working directly with the category one LME member’s London trading team. In time, Burr will look to add precious metals and iron ore.
Prior to joining Sucden Financial, Burr was Director and Head of Metals Trading at Société Générale in Hong Kong
A number of hedge fund strategies, including discretionary macro managers and specialist technology and healthcare-focused equity long/short funds, have taken profits in the first half of 2020, as the wider industry continues to claw back losses following the bedlam that rocked markets earlier in the year.
London-based Heptagon Capital (Heptagon) has successfully launched two additional sub funds for its USD3.7bn Irish UCITS Fund company, the Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund, and the Levin Easterly US Equity Fund. The Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund is sub-advised by Summit Partners Public Asset Management, LLC, a division of Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm focused on private equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. The Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund investment team is led by Portfolio Manager Tim Albright and is focused on proactively identifying, evaluating and investing in public equity positions often
Gregg Fisher, a portfolio manager and factor investing specialist, has launched Quent Capital, a New York City-based investment firm which will focus on a global small cap long/short strategy.Over the course of his 30-year career in investment management, Fisher has developed and fine-tuned innovative investment strategies over multiple market cycles and constructed institutional-grade investment operations. Known as a research-driven, quant-focused investor, Fisher has a history of launching strategies when their respective asset classes were out of favour; each time, he produced a track record that matched or exceeded the relevant benchmarks over investment periods of more than a decade.
“Quantitative
Glue42, a provider of integrated desktop solutions to financial institutions globally, and LodeStar Ecosystems, a fintech startup behind LodeBot, an AI-powered, personal digital assistant for brokers, traders and asset managers, have established a formal partnership to further improve the productivity and workflow for buy and sell side teams. The partnership helps sales and trading teams integrate their clients’ enterprise data sets across all applications on the financial desktop and apply real-time business intelligence to identify actionable opportunities.
“Information overload is just the start of the problem,” says Alan Clark, CEO, LodeStar Ecosystems. “We’re dealing with a broken knowledge chain. Market professionals struggle to
Toscafund economist Savouri’s confidence “supercharged” by Sunak’s UK coronavirus finance plan
Toscafund economist Savouri’s confidence “supercharged” by Sunak’s UK coronavirus finance plan