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Morgan Lewis has added a new investment fund team, including two parters, with wide-ranging private investment funds experience.
Investment managers in UK are prioritising alternatives, multi-asset, and ESG fund launches for 2020, citing rising demand outside the traditional asset classes, according to a new report from Alpha FMC.
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The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) will launch two new futures contracts – FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG (F4G TIP TW ESG) Index Futures and TIP Taiwan Market Biotechnology and Medical Care (TIP Taiwan BIO) Index Futures on 8 June, 2020. The addition of these two products further broadens TAIFEX’s portfolio of equity index futures as it seeks to cater to investors pursuing thematic or sector-based trading strategies.
With demand for ESG (environmental, social and governance) investment growing across the globe and in Taiwan, the need for hedging sustainability risks using ESG derivatives is increasing. In response, through collaboration with FTSE Russell and
By Jim Neumann, CIO, Sussex Partners – The news that Blackrock is to advise the European Commission on how the EU could boost the growth of green finance and build the market for sustainable financial products is a welcome announcement. It is also a long overdue step forward.
Paradigm Governance Partners Limited, a governance and financial services firm with a presence in the Cayman Islands and New York whose offering includes independent directors, distressed fund and value recovery services, family office outsourced financial reporting, AML officers, and AEOI and economic substance solutions, has expanded its Cayman Islands presence with the addition of experienced independent director Cary Marr. Cary Marr serves as a professional independent director on the boards of hedge funds, private equity funds, traditional long-only funds, and investment management companies. He is well versed in the governance and regulatory issues facing investment managers with 25 years of experience in
Digital currency trading and lending specialist Genesis has acquired Vo1t, an insured digital custody service.
The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has appointed Jeffrey Blockinger as its first Chief Executive Officer. Blockinger plans to broaden and deepen ADAM’s role in fostering fair and efficient digital asset markets where participants can transact with confidence.
Blockinger, an alternative investment fund industry veteran, is widely-respected for his advocacy with regulators and other key market participants on behalf of entrepreneurial asset managers. He has more than 20 years of experience structuring investment advisers, investment funds and broker-dealers while protecting their firms from legal risk.
He built out a global legal and compliance department as Chief Legal Officer for Och-Ziff
Short-term trend-following hedge fund strategies are maintaining their positive momentum in May, but other managed futures strategies have dipped into negative territory in recent weeks.
For a fourth straight year, the US insurance industry has reduced its hedge fund investments, by USD2.6 billion in 2019 to USD11.9 billion, with the property/casualty segment reporting a year-over-year reduction of 22 per cent, the largest among the major industry segments, according to a new AM Best special report.The Best’s Special Report, titled “Insurers Continue to Reduce Hedge Fund Exposures,” states that the continued pullback leaves the property/casualty segment with USD6.3 billion of hedge fund investments. The life/annuity segment (L/A) saw a fourth straight year of reductions of more than 10 per cent (11.9 per cent in 2019 to
Credit and EM debt offer attractive relative value trading opportunities, says BlueBay’s Kettle
Credit and EM debt offer attractive relative value trading opportunities, says BlueBay’s Kettle