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New Bitcoin and cryptocurrency platform, Bitcoin.live, is now up and running, offering new ways for investors to learn about the cryptocurrency sector.
Focused on providing insight and educational tools from leading analysts within the industry, with the end of goal of helping subscribers to improve their trading portfolios, Bitcoin.Live will cater to all cryptocurrency traders, as well as those with little to no experience. The educational platform is now able to provide subscribers the opportunity to understand and learn tricks and tips on crypto trading.
Offering a wealth of information through a series of blog posts, interactive discussions, webinars,
Hedge funds were overall flat this week, emphasising their appealing profile in the current environment, according to the latest weekly brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team.
The Italian stress mainly hurt CTAs, hit in their long bonds. L/S Equity funds also suffered from derisking, in line with their cautious exposure. By contrast, Event Driven, away from the epicentre, proved resilient.
Markets will have to go on dealing with multiple uncertainties, including concerns about the continued integration of the eurozone, trade fears, a potential revival of risk linked to Iran later in the year, disappointing economic data everywhere apart
Christoffer Folkebo has now assumed the role as CEO of Carneo Asset Managers (Carneo), formerly known as Caram.
Folkebo joins Carneo from Max Matthiessen where he has served as Group CEO for the past 12 years. During those years, Max Matthiessen developed from a local insurance broker into a well-managed, growing and profitable financial services firm and became a part of the global company Willis Towers Watson. Folkebo has extensive experience from the finance sector and is an acknowledged leader.
“We welcome Christoffer to Carneo and look forward to supporting his efforts to grow Carneo Asset Managers in
Antipodes Partners, a leading global equity boutique, has made a series of investment team and management appointments as the group’s growth continues to accelerate.
Antipodes Partners continues to witness strong investor demand – both institutional and retail – for its long/short and long-only global equity strategies, taking its AUM to approximately GBP4bn more than three years on from its inception.
Coinciding with the growth in investor demand, Antipodes Partners has also made a number of hires across its Sydney office and recently-established London office.
Andrew Findlay has been appointed managing director of Antipodes Partners, overseeing the group’s business
Index provider MSCI is adding more than 200 domestic Chinese equities to two of its benchmark indexes, in the first of two phases. Sukumar Rajah, senior managing director, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, breaks down the implications for investors and says the decision represents broad support of the government’s positive policy changes…
Effective June 2018, index provider MSCI is including 233 Chinese large-capitalization (large-cap) A shares in its Emerging Markets Index and All Country World Index (ACWI), as well as its China Index.
An initial 5 per cent inclusion will be implemented in two phases, 2.5 per cent effective 1
RM Funds has announced the launch of the VT RM Alternative Income Fund (RMAI), an actively managed open-ended fund investing in defensive, income producing alternative assets.
Pietro Nicholls (pictured), Principal – Investment Manager of RM Funds, explains that the firm was launched in 2010 and spent the first half of its life as RM Capital Markets, an agency trading business in corporate credit.
A subsequent seeding two and a half years ago of USD50 million by an institutional investor pushed the company on its evolution into RM Funds which now has USD150 million under management for largely institutional investors, such
Cowen’s Westminster RPA team recently gathered senior-level clients in an open forum to garner actionable insights into how buy-side institutions are dealing with research unbundling following the 3 January, 2018 MiFID II implementation date.
The thought-provoking discussion was led by Robin Strong, Managing Director of Westminster RPA and Chris Tiscornia, CEO of Westminster Research, and following are key highlights:
(No quote attribution is given to any of the managers in attendance for confidentiality reasons.)
Research pricing
In the second half of 2017, the media seemed to primarily focus on how sell-side institutions would price their research. This was uncharted territory
Hugo Fund Services offers Swiss representation services to foreign fund managers wishing to market their fund(s) to qualified investors into the country. This follows changes to Swiss regulation in March 2015.
Qualified investors are defined under CISA (Collective Investment Scheme Act) as including pension funds, corporates and individuals with at least CHF5m in financial assets. Previously, only those funds that were registered for public offerings – which is now referred to as distribution to non-qualified investors – had to appoint a Swiss representative.
Although Hugo Fund Services was founded in 2014 to cater specifically to alternative fund managers, a joint
The world has become seemingly captivated by cryptocurrencies, driven by their rapid growth, both in terms of the number of cryptocurrencies and their prices. There are now over 1,500 cryptocurrencies with a combined market cap of USD500 billion. The rapid surge has meant that investors globally have started to pay attention.
At the same time, a consensus is emerging that the blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrencies may be a game-changer for the global economy. The technology has started to be used by innovators in myriad fields looking for greater decentralisation.
That technology has come with its own financing model, the initial
Switzerland is currently witnessing an incredible wave of innovation in respect to crypto assets, with cantons like Zug leading the charge. This innovation is touching all aspects of business, with think tanks, regulators, law firms, incubation platforms, as well as hedge fund managers, all looking closely at how the underlying blockchain technology could lead to the digital transformation of global business.
As such, the following report will garner the views of a variety of Swiss-based actors on how they see the landscape evolving.
As reported by PwC, four of the largest initial coin offerings (ICOs) – which entrepreneurial start-ups use
