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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
Bill Prew, CEO of INDOS Financial, considers how fund governance practices have evolved to cope with the recent pandemic, and before it, the 2008 financial crisis. Despite challenges, Prew says boards cannot let standards slip nor take short-cuts, otherwise the interests of investors risk being compromised.
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genesis, a global capital markets software firm, has expanded its management team with the appointment of Nick Kolba as Global Head of Platform. Kolba is widely recognised for his experience in financial services as a Chief Technology Officer and his leadership of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS).
In this new role at genesis, Kolba will be responsible for delivering the firm’s technology strategy reporting to Stephen Murphy, CEO. In response to the ever-growing industry appreciation and appetite for low code development, Kolba will help accelerate client adoption of genesis and its Low Code Application Platform.
The appointment of Kolba comes
Ryan Willson, formerly the CEO of Lateef Investment Management, has joined Creighton AI as Partner & Head of North America to help build the firm’s business in the USA and Canada.Creighton AI (CAI) was founded by Jim Creighton, who has previously worked with Richard Brignoli and Harry Markowitz (Nobel Prize winner – Modern Portfolio Theory) on minimum variance excess growth strategies in Canada before going on to become global CIO of Barclays Global Investors, Deutsche Asset Management and Northern Trust.
Increasingly disappointed in the way Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning was being adopted by the investment community, Creighton decided to
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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