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Five former senior members from Stewart Investors are among the founding members of new London-based investment boutique, Aikya Investment Management (Aikya). The former Stewart Investors team members include Ashish Swarup, Tom Allen, Alan Nesbit, Michael Summers and Alex Khosla.
Swarup was the lead portfolio manager on several emerging markets and Asia Pacific strategies offered by Stewart Investors. Allen was co-manager with Swarup on a number of these strategies. Other founding members of the firm are former Fidelity Institutional Asset Management (FIAM) Emerging Markets All Cap Strategy portfolio manager, Rahul Desai, and former Income Partners Asset Management senior analyst, Trevor Fung. Desai
A major new standalone operation in the quant-driven, discretionary global macro space has gone live with the spin-out this month of Maniyar Capital Advisors (MCA) from Tudor Investment Corporation.
TransFICC, a specialist in low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, has raised GBP5.75 million in a Series A investment round.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Atalaya Capital Management has appointed Rebecca Chia as Head of Business Development and Investor Relations. Chia will oversee the firm’s capital development efforts.“Atalaya has extensive private investment expertise across asset classes and has brought on additional talent and infrastructure over the past year to position the business to capitalise on public market opportunities and future market dislocations. Rebecca is a timely and well-placed addition to our strategy to further deepen the pool of talent at Atalaya. I am confident she will strengthen relationships with our investors, contribute to managing our brand, and help drive growth across the Atalaya platform. We
In collaboration with Bplus and BitSG Labs, blockchain technology provider ChainUP has launched the first legally compliant crypto exchange solution in Singapore. This one-stop solution meets MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) requirements, MAS being Singapore’s de facto central bank and regulator of the financial sector.
Since establishing in 2017, ChainUP has developed 8 mature product lines –
whitelabel crypto exchange solution, situational awareness system, wallet system, blockchain cloud media, mining pool, public and alliance chains, liquidity and broker. Three independent subsidiary brands have also been created – EXUP, a financial derivatives platform, BitWind, an exchange liquidity provider and HiCoin, a crypto
ventus Systems, a global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, has made appointed of four seasoned finance, market and technology professionals who collectively bring 80 years of experience to key positions.
UMB Fund Services (UMB) has hired James Curry as key account manager, distribution services. In his role, Curry will focus on fund distribution services for clients, further enhancing UMB’s service offering to the asset management industry.Curry has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, dedicated to providing account services to distribution services clients, including interval funds. Prior to joining UMB, he was an assistant vice president and key account consultant for SS&C Technologies.
“James brings unprecedented experience and knowledge of the distribution platform world that complements the team,” says Maureen Quill, executive vice president and executive
Certain absolute return multi-asset strategies which offer all-weather return profiles have withstood the recent market turbulence, delivering “impressive” capital preservation which bodes well for future investor appetite, according to Bfinance.
Multi-asset absolute return funds lost some 2.1 per cent on average during last month’s turmoil, a “rather modest” slide compared with investment grade credit and absolute return fixed income strategies, which tumbled some 7 per cent, and the MSCI World index, which lost more than 20 per cent, said Chris Stevens, director, diversifying strategies at Bfinance.
“While most asset managers in this space lost money during an extremely testing first
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman’s “very negative view” and “good sense of timing” powered the firm’s stellar USD2.6 billion gain last month but the high-profile activist hedge fund manager does not fear a protracted 1930s-style depression as a result of the Covid-19 shutdown.
Massive dislocations in the fixed income marketplace creates opportunities for top hedge funds
Massive dislocations in the fixed income marketplace creates opportunities for top hedge funds