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Active investment management firm Man Group has appointed Jason Mitchell as Co-Head of Responsible Investment. Together with Steven Desmyter, Co-Head of Responsible Investment, Mitchell will oversee responsible investment activities across Man Group.
In his new role, Mitchell (pictured) will work across the firm’s investment engines to ensure that investment processes and policies identify and integrate operational, governance and strategic risks. Reporting to Sandy Rattray, Man Group’s Chief Investment Officer, Mitchell will be responsible for directing the development of impact, thematic and norms-based investment strategies as well as the broader integration of ESG criteria across asset classes and multi-asset solutions.
Frostrow Capital, an independent investment companies group and AIFM, has appointed Matthew Burrows as a director in its distribution team where he will add support to the business’ well-established team promoting its investment company clients.
The hire comes as Frostrow continues to implement its ambitious growth strategy.
Burrows joins Frostrow having spent three years at Standard Life Wealth as a senior client portfolio manager where he managed discretionary portfolios for private clients, pensions, charities and trusts. Prior to joining Standard Life, Burrows worked at Falcon Private Wealth as an investment manager and adviser from 2013 to 2015. He began
BitGo, a specialist in institutional-grade cryptocurrency investment services, has launched Predictive UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) Management for fee-sensitive transaction building to address the costs associated with operating high traffic wallets.
BitGo says it is the first company to bring Predictive UTXO Management to institutional investors and that early results show that it can deliver transaction fee savings of up to 30 per cent.
The increasing fragmentation of coins has created an environment where customers often hold up to hundreds of thousands of tiny coin fragments. Using each of these fragments requires a processing fee and customers can incur
Guernsey Finance is set to take a broader role in the development of the island’s financial services sector through the permanent appointment of Dr Andy Sloan as Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy.
Sloan (pictured), has been Acting Director of Strategy on part-time secondment from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission for the past nine months. He now joins permanently to oversee development of jurisdictional-wide financial services strategy through Guernsey Finance in line with the role set out in the Committee for Economic Development’s recently approved Economic Vision.
Dominic Wheatley, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, says: “Dr Sloan complements the strong team
CMC Markets, a provider of online trading, has extended its cryptocurrency spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) offer across its retail client base. Clients can now take a position on the original bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrencies paired against the US dollar.
The latest offering follows CMC Markets’ exclusive launch of cryptocurrency spread bets and CFDs to its professional client base in March.
David Fineberg (pictured), Group Commercial Director, says: “Since successfully launching our cryptocurrency offering in March to our professional clients, we have received increasing interest and demand from our retail client base to trade this unique digital
Nasdaq Anayltics Hub, which provides institutional investors, fund managers and traders with a library of vetted, back-tested and normalised alternative and financial data to help inform investment decisions, has added a raft of new data sets to its offering.
The new additions include ESG Holdings Intelligence, which is exclusive to Nasdaq, and is the only data that scores based on empirical evidence rather than third-party designations.
The new Social Media Sentiment data set meanwhile, is based on iSentium’s patented natural language processing system, while the Supply Chain Networks Exposure data set identifies critical and well-positioned companies in the global supply network.
The number of alternative fund managers choosing to future-proof their EU-focused funds through Jersey continued to grow in the first six months of 2018, according to the latest figures from Jersey’s financial regulator.
Data from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending 30 June 2018 shows that the number of Jersey-registered managers opting to market into EU Member States through national private placement regimes (NPPR) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) rose 8 per cent between January and June 2018, and 23 per cent year-on-year to stand at 161.
Meanwhile, the total number of
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has appointed former NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems executive Micah Kroeze to its management team.
Kroeze (pictured), joins the New York team as VP, Product Management where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s product development.
Kroeze brings nearly a decade of industry experience to Options from NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems, where he oversaw the growth of the firm’s market data and hosted services product lines. Kroeze was instrumental in the expansion of the firm’s infrastructure,
Skip Hashimoto, managing director of Ogier Global in Tokyo, has been appointed to the executive committee of AIMA Japan.
Hashimoto (pictured), says: “It is a privilege to join the Executive Board of AIMA Japan and have the opportunity to work closely with leaders in the Japanese alternative investment fund industry.
“AIMA is widely respected in Japan and works closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan government as well as the Ministry of Finance and other government and regulatory bodies to further enhance and develop a closer relationship between the investment funds industry.”
Chaired by Ed Rogers of Rogers Investment Advisors,
Sustainable investment management firm Osmosis Investment Management is launching a UCITS fund to provide investors with absolute returns, uncorrelated to equity markets, while delivering a significantly reduced net environmental footprint.
The Osmosis MoRE World Resource Efficiency Fund – Sustainable Market Neutral takes long positions in global listed companies in developed markets that are demonstrably the most efficient in using energy and water inputs while producing the least waste, per unit of revenue generated. It takes short positions in the least efficient stocks – constructing a portfolio targeting both a financial and an environmental return.
The investment team identifies resource
