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JST Capital (JST), a global financial services firm specialising in digital assets, saw gross revenue increase 600 per cent at year-end 2019 compared with year-end 2018.
The Company also disclosed that it has also entered over USD200 million in collateralised loans in 2019. This surge in growth has been across all of its business lines and aided by the recent regulatory clarity in Asian markets.
Todd Morakis, Co-Founder of JST Capital, says: “Since we launched our full suite of services over a year ago, the digital asset market in Asia has evolved rapidly. The recent changes in the regulatory landscape
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published a memo on co-investments which was developed by the Standards Board’s Governance Working Group.
The Standards Board is the global standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry, providing a collaborative platform for institutional investors and alternative investment managers to standardise and improve industry practices and streamline investor due diligence. It is supported by over 200 alternative investment managers and institutional investors who collectively manage USD4.5 trillion.
Co-investments have become increasingly popular in alternative funds, not just in Private Equity and Real Estate, but also in other liquid and illiquid alternative investment
DASH Financial Technologies, a capital markets technology and execution specialist, has appointed Steven Bonanno as Chief Information Officer.
Reporting directly to CEO Peter Maragos, Bonanno will be responsible for DASH’s IT infrastructure and technology platform operations.
Bonanno brings over 25 years’ experience working in the equities trading technology industry. He joins DASH from Bloomberg, where he served as Global Head of Risk Operations at the firm’s Tradebook agency brokerage business. He also served as the Global Head of Alliance Support, leading several key projects involving the transition of Tradebook from an executing agency broker model to that of a fintech
Stableton, a European platform for alternative investments, has hired Ethan B Schaerer to lead the firm’s strategic business development, sales and marketing initiatives into the next growth stage. On 1 January 2020, Schaerer will assume the position of Managing Partner alongside Stableton’s co-founders Andreas Bezner (CEO) and Konstantin Heiermann (CFO).
The 16-year financial industry veteran joins Stableton from Greentech Capital Advisors. At Greentech Capital (merger with Nomura announced), Schaerer worked closely with its founder, a former Joint Global Head of Investment Banking at UBS, to create the largest global advisory firm that focuses exclusively on sustainable infrastructure, technology, and impact investments.
“Client services could be a key focal point going forward for how fund managers might stand out from the crowd and remain relevant,” says Ross Ellis (pictured), Vice President and Managing Director of the Knowledge Partnership in the Investment Manager Services division at SEI, when discussing the third of five trends in SEI’s latest white paper, Evolution in Asset Management.
A recent white paper I read from Willis Towers Watson (Willis) suggests that the level of alpha and the volatility of alpha are at their lowest levels. The paper – Hedge Funds: A New Way – ultimately goes on to make a positive case for why hedge funds remain integral to investors’ portfolios but it is interesting to think, for a moment, as to why alpha levels are so low.
Assured Guaranty Corp (AGC), a subsidiary of Assured Guaranty, has appointed Steven Kahn as Senior Managing Director, Structured Finance.
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 0.90 per cent in November, supported by the market’s optimism towards the progress of the US-China trade talks, according to the December 2019 Eurekahedge Report.
The underlying equity market as represented by the MSCI ACWI (Local) gained 2.76 per cent over the same period. US equity markets recorded new all-time highs during the month, as a result of the strong corporate earnings combined with the positive geopolitical development. European equities also pushed higher as Germany narrowly avoided recession, defying market expectations. The CAC40 and DAX gained 3.06 per cent and 2.87 per cent
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched Insights, a new solution for enhanced analytics.
Insights transforms how firms interact with and use their financial and regulatory information by allowing them to easily bring together data, build insightful visualisations and export any report for continued analysis.
SteelEye was formed to help firms realise the benefits that can be gained from the regulatory requirement for record keeping. Over the past two years, SteelEye has helped clients bring together and store a vast amount of data for effortless compliance with MiFID II, MAR, EMIR, Dodd-Frank and other global regulations. With
Flat World Partners (Flat World), an institutional advisory and asset management firm 100% focused on sustainable investments, has partnered with hedge fund solutions business Titan Advisors, aimed at filling an ESG gap in the hedge fund market.
The duo plans to build solutions that accelerate the flow of capital toward high-quality managers who effectively and transparently integrate ESG principles into their investment research process and exhibit strong values as a firm.
“We’re thrilled to team with Titan Advisors and collaborate on solutions designed to move the hedge fund industry forward”
“We’re thrilled to team with Titan Advisors and collaborate on
