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Alternative investment fund (AIF) manager Olymp Capital has launched what it says is the first European investment fund to cover the entire blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem.
The fund will include blockchain-related private equity, initial coin offering (ICO) activity, and fund-of-fund activity centred on crypto hedge funds. The fund accepts investment both in fiat and cryptocurrencies (eg bitcoin, ether).
The Olymp Capital leadership team is led by experts in both traditional finance and in the blockchain ecosystem who have drawn on the best features of traditional venture capital, updated for the world of crypto investment. They include serial technology entrepreneur Christophe
By Vumi Dube and James Kattan (pictured), Directors, DMS Governance – As of 31 March 2018, there were 933 segregated portfolio companies (SPCs) out of 10,500 entities registered as mutual funds with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. While this represents about 9 per cent of the list of registered mutual funds, it is worth noting that as of the same date there were many more segregated portfolios (SPs) linked to these SPCs.
The ability of each SP to follow a different strategy and to attract different investors from other SPs within the same SPC presents an opportunity for a more economic
By Conner Guidry – As interest in the markets for crypto currencies and digital assets continues to grow, some hedge funds and members of the buy side are venturing into this rapidly changing ecosystem. Black Square Capital, a Washington DC hedge fund investing exclusively in the crypto space, believes crypto investment strategies must adopt an element of creativity to stay competitive and remain safe from extreme volatility that has affected the industry in recent years.
According to Black Square portfolio manager Chris Yoo: “As of now, there is no right way to invest in the crypto space. There must be a certain element
Institutional investors are still looking for a way out of the interest rate trap while seeking to protect their allocation from market fluctuations and are increasingly opting for hedge funds when making investment decisions.
According to hedge fund database provider Eurekahedge, assets under management in the hedge fund industry have reached an all-time high of USD3.4 trillion. In 2017, USD31.7 billion was paid into UCITS and offshore funds globally, and in the first half of the current year this figure grew by a further USD5 billion net.
Marcus Storr, Head of Hedge Funds at FERI, says: “Many pension
SBI Japannext, a proprietary trading system in Japan, has selected Orolia’s SecureSync time and frequency reference system along with STL satellite signal backup service to help protect sensitive financial trading and service systems.
SecureSync combines Orolia’s precision master clock technology and secure, network-centric approach with a modular hardware design to deliver a powerful time and frequency reference system at the lowest cost of ownership. It provides extremely accurate network time synchronisation through multiple references, tamper-proof management and extensive logging capability.
Satellite Time and Location Service (STL) provides an alternate satellite signal source from the Iridium constellation to provide backup
Companies are increasingly incorporating corporate event data into their trading strategies in order to mitigate monetary losses and react more quickly to market volatility, according to Wall Street Horizon’s latest Corporate Event Research Survey.
The survey, which polled more than 100 institutional market participants, nearly half of whom were quantitative or discretionary fund managers, found that more than one-third of participants have lost money as a result of either bad or unknown corporate event data, with nearly 40 per cent of those having reported a loss of more than USD10,000. This data is aligned with last year’s survey reinforcing that
Prescient Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, an independent provider of Management Company, UCITS and AIFMD Platform and Fund Administration services, has appointed Emily Davy as Head of Legal and Compliance in Dublin.
The appointment follows a period of strong growth in new business and continued demand by UK and global asset managers for Prescient’s utsourcing solutions for Irish and other EU regulated traditional and alternative investment funds.
Davy joins from Walkers Global where she was an Of Counsel in the Investment Funds Group. She previously spent a number of years in the Investment Funds Department at Matheson, another Irish law
Alternative asset manager Tages Capital (Tages) has launched the Tages Paladin Fund,which it says incorporates an ‘innovative tail risk hedging strategy’.
Tages says the fund is designed to provide investors with protection from a broad range of adverse market conditions globally without the typical burden of negative carry associated with such strategies in upward trending markets.
The Dublin domiciled UCITS fund launched with nearly USD20 million of institutional capital on 31 July 2018. Unlike most tail risk funds, Paladin is not based on a put option strategy but is comprised of a combination of systematic long volatility and convexity,
DWS is strengthening its multi-asset team with the appointment of Hartwig Kos, who is joining DWS based in Frankfurt.
Currently Co-Head of Multi Asset & Vice CIO at SYZ Asset Management in London, Kos (pictured), is a highly regarded industry expert who has deep international experience as a multi-asset portfolio manager.
Prior to joining SYZ, Kos held various positions at Baring Asset Management, most recently as Investment Director of Global Multi Asset Group. At DWS he will lead the Multi Asset Allocation team. He will report directly to Christian Hille, Global Head of Multi Asset & Solutions.
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Archax has chosen Aquis Technologies, the financial and regulatory technologies services arm of Aquis Exchange, to supply the trading technology for its new institutional-grade crypto and security token exchange, which is due to launch in the first half of 2019.
Archax will take Aquis’ complete suite of exchange operations services and tools including the market-leading Aquis Matching Engine (AME), its state-of-the-art Aquis Market Surveillance (AMS), as well as operations systems and assistance in the post trade environment.
Aquis Exchange is listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM and is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority to
