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Alternative investments firm SkyBridge Capital (SkyBridge) has appointed Joseph J Grano, Jr as a senior adviser to the firm.
As senior adviser, Grano will provide counsel on the strategic direction of the firm with an emphasis on new product development and initiatives to better serve the firm’s investors.
“We are pleased to welcome Joe to the team,” says Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner at SkyBridge. “Drawing on his deep industry experience as former chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings and UBS Financial Services, Joe will work with our management team to advise on the firm’s positioning, including the
Bramshill Investments has appointed Ara Balabanian as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager specialising in Structured Products in the firm’s investment team.
Balabanian (pictured), will join Senior Portfolio Manager, Paul van Lingen, in the firm’s Newport Beach Office to assist in the management of the Bramshill Structured Products Fund that was formally launched in the fall of 2018 as well as supporting the current Structured Products assets under management.
“We are very excited to have Ara join the Bramshill team. His more than 18 years of experience in Structured Products of all types will help us continue to expand our
Arcesium, a post-trade technology and professional services firm that supports more than USD100 billion in client assets, has launched a suite of modular technology products and solutions for alternative asset managers.
These highly configurable tools and services are designed to integrate into a client’s existing technology to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their middle- and back-office operations.
“Arcesium has built a powerful and fully integrated platform designed to support the most complex operational demands of some of the largest asset managers in the industry,” says Gaurav Suri, CEO. “We are thrilled to offer key features of this platform
The Hedgeweek Global Awards 2019 for excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers celebrate the achievements of firms that contributed to another significant year for the sector.
The winners, who were presented with their awards in London on 14 February, were decided by a poll of Hedgeweek readers, who include both investors and managers as well as other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, custodians, accountants and auditors, law firms, consultants and fund distributors. The final winners in both the manager and service provider categories were confirmed by the Hedgeweek team.
The industry’s achievements are reflected in the winners of
Alter Domus, a fund and corporate services provider, has become the latest firm from Jersey to be admitted as a Listing Member of The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
Alter Domus (Jersey) Listing Services Limited has been approved to act as a Listing Agent for non-retail debt securities and Sponsor to securities of investment vehicles.
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO of The International Stock Exchange Group (TISEG), says: “I’m delighted to welcome Alter Domus as a Listing Member of TISE. The firm is well-known as a service provider, especially to the private equity, infrastructure and real estate sectors, which are
The AQC1 Algert Global Equity Market Neutral Fund launched by Aquila Capital and San Francisco-based investment manager Algert Global LLC has returned 4.71 per cent to investors since its inception on 12 February 2018.
The fund ranks among the top 5 per cent in Morningstar’s alternative equity market neutral category.
“Considering the poor year equities had in 2018, and in particular the significant negative month of December for most equity indices, the performance of our fund is encouraging. The effort on targeting minimal correlation to general equity market returns was additive for clients in such an environment,” says Jan
Schroders has appointed a private assets specialist to oversee the continued growth and development of its business on a global scale.
Georg Wunderlin, most recently the Chief Executive Officer of HQ Capital, a leading alternatives manager, will assume the newly-created role of Global Head of Private Assets in May.
He will focus on developing and executing Schroders’ private assets growth strategy across these specialist asset classes on a global scale and enabling the business to better deliver private assets-focused investment solutions for clients.
He will report into Group Chief Executive Peter Harrison and join the Group Management
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has partnered with CoinRoutes, a provider of consolidated data, smart order routing & algorithmic trading for crypto investors, to extend the crypto-asset capabilities of the Vela product stack.
The phased program will commence with deploying CoinRoutes’ Smart Order Routing (SOR) platform to provide clients with immediate electronic access to crypto-asset trading exchanges.
Vela’s Crypto-Asset SOR offering, based on the CoinRoutes platform, provides routing to achieve the best aggregate price across all selected crypto exchanges immediately. The platform provides both aggressive and passive algorithmic strategies
GAM’s systematic alternative risk premia strategy has won an AUD275 million investment from an Australian superannuation pension fund.
GAM’s alternative risk premia strategy typically targets around 15 risk premia strategies across the style categories of value, momentum and carry. The team uses a disciplined research process to design, systematically implement and cost-effectively trade the various risk premia. In doing so, the team seeks to provide diversified sources of returns for investors.
Lars Jaeger, head of alternative risk premia within GAM Systematic, says: “Investors have shown continued appetite for our alternative risk premia offering. Our investment strategy has the potential
Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors has completed the conversion of the Highland Global Allocation Fund, a series of Highland Funds II, from an open-end fund to a closed-end fund.
The conversion was approved by shareholders during the 8 November, 2018 special meeting. The Fund expects to list its shares for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on or about 19 February 2019.
As a result of the conversion, the fund will effect a reverse stock split of Class A, Class C and Class Y shares of the Fund and will combine such shares into a single class
