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BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Strategic Funds (BSF) UK Emerging Companies Absolute Return Fund (the Fund), a long-short equity strategy focussing on opportunities created by emerging companies.
These include small, mid and large capitalisation companies that are at the early stage of their life cycle and/or expected to experience significant growth. The fund also has the remit to invest in international companies, increasing its addressable market.
The fund expands BlackRock’s High Conviction Alpha suite of active equity funds, which provides absolute return exposures to clients seeking pure alpha returns with low correlation to market indexes. This range forms part
BB&T Securities has selected CAIS to bolster its range of alternative investment offerings and can now offer access to hedge funds, private equity and debt, real estate and other non-traditional investment strategies to its financial advisers.
“BB&T Securities’s adoption of CAIS demonstrates our platform’s flexibility to serve wealth management firms of all sizes,” says Brad Walker, Managing Director at CAIS. “With a cumulative buying power of USD1 trillion, the CAIS advisor-network remains the platform of choice for alternative investment managers seeking access to the fragmented US wealth management channel.”
CAIS is an open-architecture alternative investment product platform offering wealth
Caspian now has 15 global institutions live on its crypto asset management platform and is currently implementing 20 more. The company expects to have 50 clients on the platform by the end of the year.
The live clients include Techemy, Blockstars, OSL and Galaxy Digital.
Caspian’s aim is to equip institutional investors with the ‘high-quality and comprehensive trading tools that are already available to players in the legacy financial system’ – supporting a full stack of OEMS, PMS and RMS. At its core, it says it aims to bring a level of sophistication to a multi-billion dollar market that suffers from
CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider, has today published the Cryptoasset Taxonomy Report, which provides retail and institutional investors, regulators and the industry as a whole with an independent classification of crypto assets, based on the depth, breadth and scope of CryptoCompare’s global datasets.
More than 1,000 different crypto assets have emerged in the last year alone. Each of these crypto assets can be categorised and understood using numerous frameworks. There is a clear requirement for a unified approach on how to categorise these assets, to make well-informed investment decisions.
In line with CryptoCompare’s rigorous data standards, the
DWS Group and Tikehau Capital have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance, deepening their relationship following Tikehau’s participation in the initial public offering of DWS in March 2018. With the agreement, the two asset managers aim to identify and develop various business opportunities.
“This is an important alliance aligned fully to our ambition to expand our presence further in the Alternatives asset class, an area where we see sharply increasing interest from clients,” says Nicolas Moreau, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of DWS Group. “We look forward to working closely with Tikehau Capital to the benefit of
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, delivered a forceful call for confidence in the UK post-Brexit at an event to mark the arrival in London of one of America’s largest accountancy and advisory firms.
Littlewood welcomed EisnerAmper’s arrival in London as a prime example of the possibilities for trans-Atlantic business engagement in a post-Brexit environment, suggesting that the UK, with commitment and resolve, might even look forward to matching the 4 per cent growth rate of America today. Littlewood was addressing an invited audience of 250 business leaders from across the spectrum of financial services and
Orolia has launched the VelaSync 1232 high speed, low-latency time server that is specifically designed for high frequency financial trading.
This ultra-accurate solution can also be equipped with Orolia’s Resilient PNT technology suite to provide additional data security and reliability, while protecting against GPS spoofing and jamming.
Orolla says the combination of VelaSync 1232’s highly optimised timing protocols and management functions, together with the company’s proven, precise GPS timing technology and commodity hardware, offers exceptional performance that will keep pace with today’s evolving network infrastructures.
The global, highly regulated financial services industry requires high-speed, accurate time stamping to
A benchmark study by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100 million trades per day.
The study, which was conducted by Accenture with additional support provided by technology service providers Digital Asset (DA) and R3, proved that DLT can perform at levels necessary to process an entire trading day’s volume at peak rates, which equates to 115,000,000 daily trades, or 6,300 trades per second for five continuous hours. Currently, public blockchains
Hedge funds enjoyed their strongest demand in nine months in August as investors brushed off a global equities sell-off, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator.
Data drawn from more than 5,000 hedge funds in the BarclayHedge database estimated that the hedge fund industry (excluding CTAs) hauled in USD21.5 billion (0.7 per cent of assets) in August, reversing redemptions of USD1.0 billion (-0.03 per cent of assets) in July.
Industry assets rose to an all-time high of USD3.07 trillion for the month. Investors bought hedge funds in August despite declines in global equities markets and continuing trade disputes, according
Like alternative investments themselves, Peaks Strategies evolves to meet the changes and challenges of today’s marketplace. Investment managers are constantly changing their approach to take advantage of new market trends. In the same way, Peaks is nimble, adaptive, and constantly changing to meet the challenges our clients face. In the past year, Peaks has brought on new talent, taken on mandates outside the US, embraced AI, and added the new alternatives – crypto currency & blockchain and the latest wave of FinTech clients.
Tom Walek (pictured) is a pioneer in hedge fund PR and communications, having established his first firm, Walek
