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Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has appointed Andre Keijsers as managing director of its UK office. Starting in August 2019, Keijsers will focus on the future growth of Kempen’s specialist actively-managed investment strategies, the firm’s growing UK fiduciary management business.
Keijsers joins Kempen from Vedra Partners, a family-led multi-family office. Prior to this, he worked as a Director at Kings Rock Global Investment Partners and Gottex Fund Management.
Andre Keijsers, newly appointed UK Managing Director at Kempen, says, ‘This is an exciting time to take up this role and I look forward to working with all of my new colleagues
Apex has launched a new ESG data and rating service, Apex GreenLight ESG Ratings (GreenLight), and appointing a Global Head of ESG Product to drive development.
GreenLight will deliver an in-house developed ESG rating evaluating privately held companies globally, unlocking unique market intelligence and delivering access to a previously opaque asset class.
GreenLight will also deliver consulting services to support the integration of ESG across clients’ due diligence, value creation and reporting processes.
The new product line will be offered alongside Apex’s ESG reporting solutions for listed assets launched in October 2018, delivering an enhanced set of solutions to ease
Coleman Research, a global provider of primary research, has appointed Isaak Karaev to the newly created role of Executive Chairman.
“With the launch last year of our SaaS platform, Coleman Exchange, digital strategy is taking on a key role in our future direction, as we look to not only provide professional services as an expert network, but also empower our customers to manage their own networks with our SaaS solutions,” says Kevin Coleman, CEO of Coleman Research. “Isaak has the right combination of technology expertise and commercial acumen to deliver bold solutions that meet the needs of our clients for
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management and portfolio finance solutions to hedge funds, private markets, asset managers, fund administrators, insurance companies, and pension funds, has expanded its product team with Joseph Spiro as a Director of Product Management.
Spiro will focus on extending the capabilities of Hazeltree Collateral Management with specific focus on the Uncleared Margin Rules and Standard Initial Margin Model (UMR and SIMM) mandates.
Spiro has been a part of the derivatives industry for over 20 years, specialising in derivatives collateral management. Prior to joining Hazeltree, Spiro held senior Product and Operations Management roles at Societe
BGC Partners, has launched Fenics Global Options (Fenics GO) an electronic trading and market data generation platform involving the arrangement and execution of exchange listed futures and options.
Fenics GO, in collaboration with industry leading liquidity providers Optiver, IMC and Maven Securities, launches Eurex listed Euro Stoxx 50 Index Options and related Delta 1 strategies allowing global traders to access liquidity electronically and anonymously, whilst being fully integrated into the Eurex workflow to enable seamless front to back processing of cleared trades.
Fenics GO is a fully electronic marketplace that combines complementary protocols to enable the dynamic work-up of multiple trading
By Beatrice Bedeschi – A recent decision by the Chinese government to open up the oil and gas upstream sector to direct foreign investments is likely to rekindle interest by international energy companies. However, impact in the short term might be limited as the market awaits further policy changes providing more clarity on how the new rules will work in practice, according to Industry experts and analysts.
China’s state planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced at the end of June it had slashed the so-called ‘negative’ list, which details sectors where foreign investment is restricted, opening
FlexTrade’s broker-neutral EMS, FlexTRADER, has extended its integration with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s cross-asset investment management platform.
Combining IHS Markit and FlexTrade’s expertise in the execution and order management system space provides sophisticated and global cross-asset trading capabilities delivered seamlessly across the entire trading lifecycle.
“This is good news,” says Mark Denny, Head of Trading – Global Equities, at Investec Asset Management. “We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary with FlexTrade this year and having thinkFolio closely aligned with FlexTRADER is a powerful workflow benefit to us in terms of scalability and simplifying software upgrades.”
“A certified interface between thinkFolio
Following the directives of the Energy and Climate Authority (DGEC), Powernext has published information about renewable energy consumed in France in 2018.
According to its obligation toward the Energy and Climate Authority (Direction Direction Générale de l’Energie et du Climat or DGEC) relative to the tracking of renewable energy, Powernext, as the National Registry for electricity guarantees of origin, is publishing the French residual mix and releasing information about the consumption of renewable energy in France.
108.7 TWh of the 548.6 TWh of electricity produced in France in 2018 originated from renewable sources (63.1 TWh from hydroelectricity, 27.8 TWh from
Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan has become a champion-level sponsor of Women in Funds, a social community for female leaders in the private investment funds industry and select senior leaders at law firms, allocators, and industry consultants.
“As a firm we recognise the need for diversity and we likewise counsel our investment fund clients on the value that a diverse work force creates,” says Jason Grunfeld, partner and head of business development for Kleinberg Kaplan. “We regularly work with many talented and successful female fund managers and know with the support of an organisation like Women in Funds, more women
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a whistleblower award to an anonymous overseas foreign national of half a million dollars.
The SEC has reported more than USD2 billion in monetary sanctions from recent actions brought by whistleblowers, and the Commission has paid over USD300 million in rewards. Based on publicly available information, since the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, over USD40 million has been paid to overseas whistleblowers.
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), foreign nationals are given full protection under American law for reporting bribes that they have witnessed. These whistleblowers are also qualified for
