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Arabian Bourse (ABX), which has received In-principal Approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) top operate as a crypto asset exchange and custodian, has received a double digit multi-million dollar investment from HBK-GoChain.
This strong partnership brings together a digital asset market place, a blockchain technology platform and strategic investment. The ABX and HBK-GoChain ecosystem will ultimately act as a bridge, integrating the region’s digital assets activity with other major digital asset centres around the world.
ABX is implementing the GMEX-powered hybrid centralised & blockchain distributed ledger technology suite, which is deployed and
More and more professional investment allocators are directly asking about sexual harassment during the fund manager due diligence process, while a rising number of allocators – nearly 1-in-10 – upon identifying sexual harassment issues would still invest with a given manager.
Those are two key findings of the just-released, second annual sexual harassment survey conducted by the Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), the exclusive investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence programs.
“Progress Achieved – Challenges Remain” reveals institutional fund allocators doing a better job of identifying sexual harassment issues at investment management firms
Murano’s Ole Rollag (pictured) reflects on the past year and makes his predictions for hedge funds in 2020…
It has been another challenging year for the hedge fund industry – asset flows were negative for the sixth consecutive quarter according to HFR data – and yet many managers seem positive overall.
We note both a more defensive view amongst many institutional investors and a better understanding within the asset management complex of what a hedge fund can and cannot do.
However, this comes with stark warning signs as many managers have yet to demonstrate their skills when a real bear
Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan has appointed Joshua M Kaplan as a partner in its Estate Planning and Administration Practice. He joins from Dechert.
With more than a decade of experience in private wealth matters, Kaplan advises clients on a broad range of issues, including estate planning and administration; estate, gift and GST tax planning; business succession planning; charitable giving; and life insurance.
Kaplan’s clients include hedge fund and private equity fund managers, for whom he provides guidance in connection with estate planning issues related to fund formation, ownership and disposition. He regularly advises institutional clients regarding fiduciary issues and
Refinitiv has expanded its long term partnership with Antara, Indonesia’s national news agency to provide customers with access to in-depth news and information in Bahasa Indonesian and English across Refinitiv’s products, including via Eikon.
As Indonesia’s economy expands at the fastest pace in seven years, an understanding of the local business and political climate is crucial for international businesses looking to capture growth opportunities in the market. Through its breaking and in-depth articles on Indonesia’s politics, economy and business, finance, sports, as well as international news, Antara is regarded as a trusted and quality news source with an extensive network.
State Street Corporation has appointed Brian Franz as chief information officer (CIO). Franz, who joins the Company in January 2020, will report to Chief Operating Officer, Lou Maiuri and become a member of State Street’s Management Committee, its senior-most strategy and policy making group.
Franz comes to State Street from Diageo PLC, a publicly traded multinational company, where he most recently served as chief productivity officer leading information technology, enterprise operations and business service functions across the company. Franz joined Diageo in 2008 as global chief information officer having served as CIO for PepsiCo International and in a number of
Following the announcement of their strategic partnership in September 2019, Sanne and Colmore have now entered into the next phase of development.
Building on Colmore’s award winning Limited Partner (LP) portfolio monitoring platform, Helios, Sanne and Colmore have begun to develop a dedicated General Partner (GP) solution to enable real-time, online portfolio data, seamlessly connected to Sanne’s fully integrated services offering.
Both organisations are excited about what the future holds. The combination will provide the wider alternative asset industry with a new end-to-end solution throughout the LP – GP value chain. This will not only harnesses the power of Colmore’s
NZX and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) have announced a Co-operation Agreement with a focus on securing new opportunities in the New Zealand carbon market.
This is a market that enables participants such as businesses with carbon emissions and forest landowners to efficiently manage their obligations under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme – the Government’s main tool for meeting domestic and international climate policy targets.
NZX CEO, Mark Peterson, says new opportunities are opening up as the New Zealand emissions market matures.
“We believe that the transparency and security of a regulated market will add value to the existing
QuantHouse, a global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), is to make real-time and historical data for cash cryptocurrency pairs available through its single API via DVeX.
DVeX is the electronic digital asset exchange owned and operated by DV Chain, part of the DV Trading group of companies.
DV Trading is a liquidity provider and active market maker across a wide range of asset classes including cryptocurrencies. Leveraging its significant presence in the cryptocurrency sector, DV Chain has launched its own electronic OTC marketplace for
Neuberger Berman has launched the Neuberger Berman Macro Opportunities FX Fund, which aims to deliver positive returns of 5-6 per cent in excess of cash per annum before fees, primarily by exploring relative value across G10 currencies.
The fund’s investment strategy is based on an established process, which has a track record of producing returns with a low correlation to equities, bonds and alternatives, demonstrating particularly strong resilience in adverse market conditions.
Ugo Lancioni, Neuberger Berman’s head of currency management, is responsible for the Neuberger Berman Macro Opportunities FX Fund, with additional support from a dedicated team of five investment
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