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Joseph Gunnar & Co (JGUN) has appointed Michael Graichen as Head of Capital Markets. Graichen will be based in the firm’s New York City office where he will service JGUN’s clients across equity and debt transactions.
Graichen brings over two decades of experience in equity capital markets and institutional sales to JGUN. Most recently, he was with Paulson Investment Company, LLC, where he was director, capital markets.
He is a Series 7, Series 66 licensed Registered Representative and holds a BS degree in Environmental Sciences from University of Vermont.
JGUN provides a full array of financial services including investment banking,
Linedata, a global provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, to asset managers, institutional and alternative asset managers, and fund administrators, has opened a new office in Singapore.
Linedata says its technological solutions are well suited to the Singaporean financial market and can support the city state’s suite of investment fund structures, such as the Variable Capital Company.
The company, which already has a presence in APAC through its existing operations in Hong Kong and India, will be tailoring its product offering specifically to suit the Singaporean market and is now actively recruiting new talent to
Ironshield Capital, a London-based European credit hedge fund manager, has launched the Ironshield Credit Opportunities Fund, a closed-end vehicle which look to take advantage of opportunities materialising in private credit and illiquid public credit.
Crispin Odey has taken a bullish view on Swiss bank UBS Group’s controversial rescue of stricken rival Credit Suisse Group by investing 2% of Odey Asset Management funds in UBS shares, according to a report by Bloomberg.
TCI, the activist hedge fund founded by Chris Hohn, wants to see board-level changes at Spanish telecoms group Cellnex, including the removal of chair Bertrand Kan and two other board directors, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The FT cites a letter written by Hohn to the board of Cellnex explaining that the changes are required to speed up the appointment of a new chief executive following the departure of Tobias MartÃnez Gimeno, who resigned from the role in January and will leave the company in June
Cellnex, Spain’s largest telecoms group and Europe’s biggest mobile tower company,
Hindenburg Research, the short seller behind a market rout that wiped over $100 billion in value from India’s Adani Group, has revealed it holds short positions in Block Inc, the payments firm led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, according to a report Reuters.
And in a new research report on Block Inc, Hindenburg has alleged the company has both overstated its user numbers, and understated its customer acquisition costs.
Block has said it is exploring taking legal action action against the short seller for its “factually inaccurate and misleading report” that was “designed to deceive and confuse investors”, and that
Professional investors are increasingly confident about investment opportunities in the crypto and digital asset sector over the short and long term despite recent market weakness, according to new research by London-based digital asset hedge fund Nickel Digital Asset Management.
London-based compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye, has integrated ChatGPT into its cloud based platform as part of a case study to evaluate the usefulness of the AI tool in terms of market surveillance.
Investment research company Third Bridge has launched Community a new product offering providing hedge find, private equity firms, credit investors, mutual funds, and strategy consultants access to transcribed interviews between investors and industry experts.
Pierre Andurand’s main hedge fund has lost about 40% since the start of 2023 after the banking crisis caused panic in commodities markets, making the famed oil trader one of the hedge fund world’s biggest losers so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
