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Falcon Investment Management, a hedge fund platform and first loss capital provider, has announced a new capital allocation expanding its first loss programme offering across new markets and strategies.
The platform offers independent portfolio managers access to capital, alongside support with managed account set up and onboarding, ongoing risk monitoring and access to data and tech to support day to day business flow. The programme offers higher than average performance fee payouts and regulatory compliance oversight to support the independent manager.
“We are excited about our $10 million allocation to Shinringi Capital and the ability to support new managers in
Value Partners Group Limited (Value Partners) has appointed Ricky Tang as managing director, co-head of client portfolio management, effective 20 June 2022.
Tang is responsible for the product strategy of the Group’s fixed income and multi-asset capabilities, driving and developing the franchises’ competitive positioning and strategic plans. He also serves as Co-Head of Client Portfolio Management, alongside Co-Head Frank Tsui, who focuses on the Group’s equities capabilities and is also the Group’s Head of ESG Investments. They will jointly lead the overall management of the Client Portfolio Management function. Based in Hong Kong, Tang reports to the Group’s Co-Chairman and
Alternative credit specialist Pemberton has completed and committed a total amount of investments of €1.5 billion in France over the last twelve months.
Just over a year after going live, Brazilian startup Gavea’s commodities blockchain trading platform has reached the mark of $2.3 billion in bids and offers, around six million tonnes of products.
Some of the major players in the commodities industry are already clients, such as Amaggi, Agro Amazônia, FS Bioenergia, Inpasa, Gavilon, Lavoro, Cofco, and others.
Developed with blockchain technology, the platform works as an OTC (over-the-counter) exchange, allowing buyers and sellers to know the counterpart they are dealing with, with transparency and no middlemen, providing full upstream traceability of products’ origin and promoting a fair and sustainable trading, with
Beleaguered cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd is considering a number of options to tackle its current problems including a sale of assets and a bailout by another firm, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
BMLL, an independent provider of harmonised, historical data and analytics, has been selected to partner with New York University’s Mathematics in Finance programme, making its Data Lab available to NYU’s team of quantitative researchers.
Part of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the programme and its research activities are directed by Professor Petter Kolm, a quantitative analyst specialising in market microstructure modelling and buy-side trading, who was named as “Quant of the Year” in 2021 by Portfolio Management Research (PMR) and Journal of Portfolio Management (JPM) for his contributions to the field of quantitative portfolio theory.
An NYU team, led
Two Sigma has appointed Marco Della Torre as CEO of Venn, its portfolio analytics platform.
In this newly created role, Della Torre will lead the product and business development of Venn, drawing from his nearly two decades of experience leading high-growth technology companies.
Della Torre most recently served as chief product & innovation officer of Forge Global, a private securities marketplace and data platform, where he oversaw the company’s product strategy and roadmap. Prior to Forge, Della Torre was chief technology officer of Derive Systems, an automotive technology company, where he led all technology and architected the product strategy
The current uncertainty surrounding digital assets hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has prompted Finblox a platform that offers traders 90 per cent annualised yields for lending out – staking – their cryptocurrencies, to introduce a $1,500 monthly withdrawal limit and pause rewards, according to a report by CoinDesk.
HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM) is creating a new unit, the Capital Solutions Group (CSG), to sit within its alternatives business, HSBC Alternatives.
The CSG will raise funds and create bespoke offerings in private and sustainable assets delivering flexible capital solutions for both institutional and wealth clients of HSBC Asset Management.
The CSG will become a new horizontal within HSBC Alternatives, collaborating with the existing investment capabilities of indirect alternatives, private credit, venture capital and real assets, to develop and scale solutions for both issuer and investor clients.
Borja Azpilicueta will lead CSG and move to HSBC AM
The net asset values of several funds run by Dan Bin’s Shenzhen Oriental Harbor Investment Management Co – one of China’s best known money managers – have shown a sudden rise in volatility indicating that the firm may be rebuilding positions after liquidating almost all of its holdings earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
