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Crypto investment platform CoinBundle has added Katherine Hensel (pictured), as a special adviser on the company’s advisory board.
CoinBundle say Hensel’s considerable experience across finance, investing and entrepreneurship will be invaluable to the leadership team as it grows its business to provide wider access to cryptocurrencies.
An accomplished financial industry executive and institutional investor, Hensel has held leadership positions across the investment banking/brokerage and asset management industries for more than 35 years. Hensel is a subject matter expert in financial services and financial institutions. Previously, Hensel was a managing director in equity research, led the Financial Institutions Group and
Wavelength Capital Management’s (Wavelength) Wavelength Interest Rate Neutral Fund (WAVLX) has been named as the ‘Best Liquid Alternatives’ 40 Act’ Fund at the 2018 Hedgeweek USA Awards.
This marks the second year in a row that the fund has received such recognition, having last year won the award in the Hedgeweek Global Awards.
The awards celebrate the achievements of firms that contributed to another transformative year for the alternative asset management sector. Award winners were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek’s subscriber base, which includes institutional investors, wealth managers, fund managers, and other industry professionals. Established in 2003,
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is seeking public feedback on the proposed introduction of a new trading session for the securities market, the ‘trade at close’ (TAC), which will take place after the closing auction routine ends.
During the five-minute-long TAC trading session, participants will be able to execute orders only at the closing auction price set during the closing auction routine. The TAC session will apply to the ready and unit share markets.
“The introduction of the ‘trade at close’ session will allow investors to trade at a fixed price, namely the closing price of the security, while preserving the
Investment risk plays an important role in the life of a hedge fund manager, but technology risk should not. When it comes to your firm’s technology systems and operations, you want things to run efficiently, not add more stress to your already crowded plate.
Mitigating technology risk is a critical step to ensuring your hedge fund operates smoothly and successfully. Following are a few areas to keep in mind as you evaluate your firm’s technology risk:
Layers of redundancy
One way to reduce your firm’s technology risk is to add layers of redundancy throughout your infrastructure. Whether you’re utilizing a
By Amisha Shah, EzeCastle Integration – With ‘Cybersecurity month’ approaching next month, now is the perfect time for firms to reflect on what’s often classed as a key contributing factor to cyber breaches – its employees. We hate to admit it, but human error tends to be the weakest link of any defence practices firms have in place.
The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2017 advises that simply having the right technology is not enough to ensure protection from threats we’ve seen grow in frequency and sophistication, of late. Reputable airline, British Airways, is one of many businesses to fall victim
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS GmbH) in Germany has been mandated by First Private Investment Management to provide, via CrossWise, front, middle and back office services, as well as analytics and reporting.
First Private Investment Management benefits from the plug-and-play, modular CrossWise solution combining front to back solutions, created for asset managers to optimise their operating model and meet all regulatory constraints across all asset classes.
In addition, SGSS provides First Private Investment with its extended analytics and reporting services including performance measurement and risk analysis based on SGSS VIEW, its web based reporting portal.
SGSS was chosen
Ikigai Asset Management, a long/short multi-strategy crypto-asset hedge fund launched by former Point72 Portfolio Manager, Travis Kling, has added three new executive hires to its team.
Christina Martin, of Plutos Capital Group, has joined as Partner. Daniel Heller of BitLumens and Oliver Zahn of Google have joined as Advisors.
“We’ve seen significant traction with sophisticated investors on what we’re building at Ikigai and have an imminent need to continue to build out our deep bench of experts,” says Ikigai Co-Founder and CIO, Kling. “We’re thrilled to add seasoned industry veterans with diverse backgrounds to the Ikigai team.”
Joining
Hedge fund and private equity fund manager EJF Capital (EJF) has appointed Asheel Shah as a Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, effective 1 October 2018.
Shah will direct all commercial real estate investment activities including ground up development.
Shah brings with him over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. Most recently, he was President and Chief Investment Officer of the Multifamily division at Kettler Inc, a diversified real estate development company. Shah oversaw acquisitions, asset management, development, construction and equity capital sourcing in the Multifamily division.
Neal Wilson, co-founder and Chief Operating
The Hedgeweek USA Awards 2018 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 New York today (20 September), 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
big xyt, an independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has added a Double Volume Cap (DVC) dashboard to its Liquidity Cockpit, allowing clients to understand where volume migrates when the DVCs change.
The big xyt Liquidity Cockpit is widely recognised as an essential independent data analytics tool for exchanges, sell-side and increasingly buy-side market participants, provided via interactive dashboards and direct access to the underlying data and analysis. Data quality is a key component, as is a robust process for normalisation so that like-for-like comparisons and trends over time have relevance.
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