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Alternative investment manager FS Investments (FS) has closed its previously announced acquisition of Chiron Investment Management (Chiron).“By adding the Chiron funds and team to the FS platform, we are better able to serve our clients with a broader set of solutions and expanded distribution,” says Michael Forman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FS Investments. “Our complementary investment approaches also position us to be a leader in developing model portfolios that combine traditional and alternative strategies.”
Chiron is a global multi-asset investment boutique that employs an active investment approach rooted in quantitative analytics and fundamental research. Chiron manages three funds
Custodial wallet specialist Trustology, has launched a new solution for traders and crypto funds, an Exchange Credentials Wallet. This all-in-one solution, now available in Trustology’s TrustVault platform, provides advanced controls for managing on-exchange assets to help meet emerging investor and regulatory demands on Funds who are expected to secure assets both on-chain, as well as on-exchange. Funds tend to have a lot of liquidity sitting on exchanges rather than on-chain, off-exchange. This is where an exchange credentials wallet is important.
Custom-built by technical experts in cryptography, finance, and security, Trustology’s Exchange Credentials Wallet provides advanced controls across API and TOTP secret
Brooklands Fund Management Limited has appointed Mohsin Khan as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective Q2 2020.Khan brings over 12 years of experience in Operations and Compliance in the Asset Management industry. He is joining Brooklands from Altana Wealth where he spent over 5 years building the infrastructure. As the COO he was instrumental in launching many funds across different jurisdictions as well as managing the teams in London. Prior to Altana, Mohsin reaps a wealth of experience from previous employment at BlueCrest Capital Management, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch to name a few.
Olivier Thieux, Co-CEO, says: “We are very excited to welcome
TRAction, a regulatory reporting services provider, has launched a new solution to assist UK and European investment managers with their MiFID II obligations to monitor and give clients the best possible execution outcomes.
Absolute Return Partners recommends keeping a lid on equity beta positions as US stocks look set to mean-revert following their long bear run – with shipping and uranium being two investment themes arising out of the move.
In ARP’s March note, founder and chief investment officer Niels Clemen Jensen observed how US equities remain relatively expensive, with corporate profits not as strong as the stock market would suggest, and S&P 500 operating profits out-of-sync with NIPA (National Income and Products accounts) profits.
In particular, corporate profits and stock market performance – which traditionally moved in the same direction – are
The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) has been registered as an administrator in accordance with Article 34 of the EU Benchmark Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of 8 June 2016) approved by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The registration is effective as of 2 March 2020.
The EU Benchmark Regulation has been in force since 1 January 2018 and affects both EU and non-EU companies that manage benchmarks used in the EU. Established index providers should apply for a license under the EU Benchmark Regulation by January 2020 to ensure the integrity of the benchmarks.
“In the interest of our customers,
LRI Invest, an investment services company and subsidiary of Apex Group Ltd, is marking the three-year anniversary of the UCITS umbrella DIAMOND I SICAV, part of the TAO Alternatives strategy. The umbrella will complete its three-year live track record on 31 March, 2020.
At its thirteenth year, the TAO Alternatives liquid alternative investment strategy is one of the longest standing in the Macro/Risk Premia space and exhibits a live track record of 6.4 per cent net average annual return.
It was set up in 2007. To enable external investors access to the fund, it is under the general management of LRI
Carbon Cap Management, a London based environmental asset management firm has launched the World Carbon Fund, a globally diversified fund investing into multiple liquid and regulated carbon markets. The Fund pursues an absolute return strategy, seeking to deliver positive returns with a low correlation to traditional and alternative asset classes as well as a direct impact on climate change. The fund will invest into and trade liquid carbon allowance certificates, carbon futures and carbon options.
Carbon Cap has conducted proprietary research into carbon markets including a research paper “The Carbon Risk Premium” which analyses carbon as a liquid and investable asset
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs), for OTC derivatives, has announced the 2020 industry consultation timeline, bringing publication of annual user fees forward and moving to a single in-depth consultation.User fees will now be published in October, rather than December of each year, in response to industry’s request to bring the annual fee publication date forward. This enhancement is supported by the revised consultation approach, which in turn
Tether Gold, a digital asset providing exposure to physical gold (XAU), has had a huge uptake in demand to become the biggest gold-backed token amid turbulent global financial markets.Tether Gold, which now has a market capitalisation of more than USD21 million, has surpassed its nearest rival PAX Gold, providing investors with the easiest way to own and trade physical gold within a growing digital asset ecosystem.
“Tether Gold has had a really great start,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether. “But I believe that this is nothing in comparison to the potential of this new asset, especially in the
