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Oliver Quarmby has joined Ogier’s Guernsey investment funds and private equity team as a managing associate.
Quarmby(pictured), is an English Solicitor and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, who has experience working in-house and at a regulatory consultancy as well as in private practice.
He advises clients on equity fundraisings, flotations, the establishment of private equity funds, hedge funds, closed-end investment funds and financings and capital call facilities.
Group Partner Craig Cordle, says: “The addition of Oliver to our Guernsey team is very welcome indeed. Oliver will work from our London office and brings
Agilis Investment Management, an independent multi-asset fund manager, has appointed Charles Crowson as a Partner and Head of Trading. The news comes as the firm approaches the first-year anniversary of its multi-strategy defensive-growth Fund. 


In his new role, Charles will be responsible for trade execution and will contribute to idea generation. Crowson joins Agilis from hedge fund Mason Capital, where he headed up the London office for ten years overseeing trading of event-driven and special-situation strategies across equity, equity derivatives and fixed income. 


Crowson has more than 18 years’ investment experience and has previously held senior trading roles at
A Leg To Stand On (ALTSO) is gearing up for its inaugural Rocktoberfest charity concert in London on 6 June 2018. Doors will open at 6:30pm for a night of live music as bands drawn from the hedge fund and private equity communities perform to raise money to provide free orthopaedic care for children.
Rocktoberfest-London will feature performers who by day work in financial services, including the likes of Société Générale, PAAMCO, Simmons & Simmons, Lombard Odier, Albourne, Apple and others. The firm which raises the most money gets to choose their spot on the bill. ALTSO has organised sister
Asia Pacific Exchange (APEX), a new derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, based in Singapore, has gone live with core functions operating on technology from the Cinnober Group.
APEX’s independent clearinghouse, Asia Pacific Clear Pte Ltd, runs on Cinnober’s TRADExpress RealTime Clearing, a comprehensive real-time clearing system for OTC and exchange-traded markets. Irisium, a subsidiary within the Cinnober Group and leading provider of market surveillance and analytical software for financial organisations, provides APEX’s market surveillance system. Using Irisium’s platform, APEX will be able to identify in real time and investigate manipulative and suspicious trading behaviours.
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Hedge fund investors held their ground in March 2018, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, even as the equity market correction entered its second month. Industry assets climbed to an all-time high of USD3.0 trillion.
Data drawn from more than 5,000 hedge funds in the BarclayHedge database estimated that the hedge fund industry, exclusive of CTAs, added USD6.1 billion (0.2 per cent of assets) in March, down 64.0 per cent from February. Hedge funds have added assets in 10 of the past 12 months, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, a monthly big-picture report on the health of
AGF Management, with USD37 billion under management, has completed its acquisition of 100 per cent of FFCM, to further strengthen their quantitative investing and ETF platform brought to market under the AGFiQ banner.
“Today, we further build on our strategic plan to diversify across the investment spectrum,” says Judy Goldring, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, AGF. “Through organic growth and acquisition, we have been able to launch new platforms and develop innovative products.”
The firm writes that in November 2015, AGF acquired the majority of the equity of FFCM, a Boston-based boutique asset manager and ETF strategist
Driehaus Capital Management has appointed Lee Diamandakis as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Central region. He is joined by David McElroy as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Southeast region.
Diamandakis brings over 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently holding senior institutional business development and relationship management positions with William Blair & Company, LLC and Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc. McElroy brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a proven track record of business development and raising assets. Most recently, he led institutional sales
Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands has advised the Ultraviolet Foundation on its token generation event with respect to its innovative research and data exchange blockchain platform, Ultraviolet Protocol (UVP).
The platform allows teams and individuals to create independent research applications enabling participants to pose research topics or request data and generate a single, trusted and verifiable answer by leveraging the wisdom of the crowd. These applications intend to develop a new system of knowledge creation outside of centralised institutions that provides many millions of people with the opportunity to earn money by contributing research and knowledge.
Borodich is a pioneer in the fields of innovation and blockchain, a venture investor with over 70 projects worldwide, and a digital media strategist. He is the founder of Universa Blockchain and VentureClub, Russia’s leading crowd investment platform and investor club.
Borodich is a former Marketing Director at Mail.ru Group. His key interests are Internet of Things, cloud computing, and smart cities. Borodich holds a PhD from the Moscow State University School of Economics and Mathematics, a Master’s Degree in Marketing from Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics, and an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics. He is an
A new partnership between GMEX Group (GMEX), an established provider of services in financial markets, and the Digital Asset Group (DAG) is aiming to bring together the practices of regulated banking, finance and exchanges with emerging innovation and a digital world enabled by Blockchain, Distributed Ledger and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Sean Kiernan, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset Group and until recently a senior manager in London’s burgeoning wealth management sector, is taking his expertise in traditional regulated banking and combining it with the DeepTech expertise of Dmitry Kaminskiy, the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of DAG, an innovative entrepreneur
