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The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced that leading asset manager.
BlackRock has subscribed to the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) dataset.
The information packages which is distributed exclusively by Qontigo, analyses corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). BlackRock will use the data to advise clients on ESG portfolio construction, research, reporting, product creation and evolution.
The SDI AOP dataset is backed by some of the world’s largest asset owners. In 2020, APG, AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and PGGM
Fulcrum Asset Management has added Emma Pickering, Juan Antolin-Diaz and Philip Strother to the Partnership, bringing the total number of partners to 15.
Pickering heads Fulcrum’s Investor Relations Team and has greatly enhanced the firm’s relationships with its clients. Joining in April 2004, she was a day-one member of Fulcrum, having previously worked alongside other founding members at Goldman Sachs. She is a CFA Charterholder.
Head of Research, Antolin-Diaz joined Fulcrum 10 years ago from the European Central Bank, and prior to that the Foundation for Applied Economic Research. He has built up a widely respected team of researchers
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Gabriel Acri as a partner in the Firm’s Asset Management Department in New York.
Acri previously served for ten years as Managing Director, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of hedge fund adviser Sovarnum Capital LP. Earlier in his career, he was an associate in Willkie’s Asset Management Department.
Acri has extensive experience in the formation, maintenance and regulation of various domestic and offshore hedge funds and other private funds, including commodity pools. He has advised registered and unregistered investment advisers, commodity trading advisors and other market participants across the US, Europe and
The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the hedge fund and global alternative investment industry, has submitted a comment letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to a proposed rule on private fund advisers.
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has announced the results of its 2022 Global Board of Directors election.
HFA members re-elected Rajpal Arulpragasam, and elected Jagruti Bhikha, Deloris Dunk Vickers, Thejas Nalval and Richard Westmark. HFA Global Board members are all industry executives that serve for up to two consecutive three-year terms.
Global Board Election Winners:
Rajpal Arulpragasam, Global Board Member, Partnership Committee Co-Chair
Jagruti Bhikha, Global Board Member, West Coast Regional Director
Deloris Dunk Vickers, Global Board Member, Officer and Treasurer
Thejas Nalval, Global Board Member
Richard Westmark, Global Board Member, Texas
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Board of Directors has appointed Francis (Frank) La Salla, currently Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon’s Issuer Services business and a member of the BNY Mellon Executive Committee, as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, effective 12 August.
La Salla’s appointment as CEO reflects the Board’s long-term succession planning and rigorous search process with the scheduled retirement of Michael C Bodson, who has served as DTCC’s CEO since July 2012.
La Salla will also serve as President and CEO of DTCC’s principal operating subsidiaries, The Depository Trust Company (DTC),
dHEDGE, a ‘one-stop interface for digital-asset management’, has launched Toros, an incubated protocol built for Polygon.
Powered by dHEDGE, Toros aggregates the safest and most rewarding inflation-hedging strategies for Polygon users, in addition to yield and liquidity vaults. As part of dHEDGE’s “Moonlight” release, the full Toros launch accompanies new management and efficiency features, including 1inch and Aave V3 integrations on Optimism and flat management fee options.
As rising inflation touches nearly every sector of public life, investors are looking to improve their yields with maximum ease, accessibility, and safety. Toros’ full launch offers investors automated strategies and structured products
DLT and cryptoassets investment specialist Aaro Capital’s DLT Multifund achieved an annual return of 177.2% in 2021, outperforming the wider crypto market (MVIS 100) by 42.8% and bitcoin by 117.7%.
The fund’s Sharpe Ratio of 2.6 was also superior to that of the MVIS 100 index (1.8) and bitcoin (0.8).
The Aaro DLT Multifund, launched in May 2020, is one of the first fund of funds seeking to exploit investment opportunities in DLT/blockchain-related technologies and cryptoassets. The aim of the fund is to deliver sustainable growth and risk-adjusted returns while protecting against the markets’ short-term volatility.
The Aaro DLT Multifund is open to professional investors only.
Transaction Network Services (TNS) can now enable hedge funds to directly access market data from all US Equity Option Exchanges, providing reduced complexity and significant cost savings.
This offering is achieved because of TNS’ mutualised exchange connections and status as a registered data vendor with all 16 Equity Option Exchanges in the US.
TNS has one of the fastest, commercially available fibre networks in the New York metro area. With complete access and control over routes, TNS’ dedicated operations teams ensure network optimization via a combination of high capacity, ultra-low-latency and maximum uptime, delivered via fully diverse circuits.
TS Imagine, a specialist in trading, portfolio and risk management solutions, has integrated its multi-asset EMS with Appital’s bookbuilding platform to provide buyside clients with greater access to liquidity.
The TS Imagine EMS integration is a crucial step to developing the necessary market structures to bring Appital’s bookbuilding platform to equity capital markets participants. The announcement follows the recent Appital collaboration with executing brokers Instinet and Bernstein and in anticipation of Appital’s launch later this year.
Appital gives buyside firms exposure to deal flow opportunities often in excess of multiple days ADV, including in highly illiquid, small and mid-cap stocks,
