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UBS O’Connor, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager within UBS Asset Management, has hired Jason Bonadio MD, Robert Sweeney MD, and Adam Sandler MD to manage a relative value equity strategy focusing on the healthcare therapeutics industry.
Bonadio joins as a Healthcare Portfolio Manager. Prior to this role, he co-founded Alera Partners, a long/short equity healthcare fund investing in the biotechnology, medical technology, pharmaceutical and life science tools sectors. Bonadio was also a founding partner and a co-portfolio manager of the FrontPoint Healthcare Funds.
Sweeney joins as a Healthcare Research Analyst. Sweeney is a board-eligible surgeon that joined Alera Partners
Mobilum Technologies (Mobilum), a technology-driven company making digital assets and cryptocurrencies accessible through traditional finance and payment infrastructure, and the first solution provider of Fiat-to-Dex Tokens rails, has signed a strategic services agreement with Crypto.com to provide token liquidity services using Mobilum’s algorithmic trading platform.
Mobilum will provide trading research and execution leveraging its algorithmic trading platform to further enhance the exceptional customer experience already provided by Crypto.com. Mobilum will also provide Crypto.com with regular reporting including summaries and statistics of market activity. Mobilum will receive a monthly retainer for the duration of the agreement. Crypto.com has granted Mobilum an
EPFR, a subsidiary of Informa Financial Intelligence and worldwide industry leader in providing fund flows and allocation data to financial institutions, has launched the EPFR Fixed Income Flows and Holdings dataset providing exclusive monthly, fund-level securities data.
The new dataset helps clients strengthen their understanding of ownership and demand for over 50,000 fixed income securities.
The EPFR Fixed Income Flows and Holdings dataset provides insight into bond ownership across multiple fund groups and gives clients a wide range of tools to filter the data. These include fund geo-focus, sector focus, trading currency and maturity date. Clients can also run
Gridline’s new alternative asset marketplace is aiming to provide greater opportunity for individual investors and wealth managers to invest in top-tier alternative assets and fund managers.
Just as Vanguard introduced index-based investing to public markets in the 1970s, Gridline is introducing index-based investing to private markets, allowing non-institutional investors the most efficient way to gain diversified exposure to historically exclusive and prohibitively expensive private market opportunities.
Gridline’s digital wealth platform handles the traditionally cumbersome back-office management of private market investing, from treasury management to tax reporting and transparent performance monitoring, allowing fees to remain low, keeping more money in the
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has bene named as one of the founding members of the newly launched “Sustainable Trading”, a non-profit membership network to drive ESG change across financial markets.
The founding members of Sustainable Trading come from a range of companies across the financial sector, including; asset management, banking and brokerage, market making, exchanges, technology, and service providers.
The membership network is dedicated to transforming environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. It aims to bring firms together to devise practical solutions to industry-specific ESG
Global Kapital Group (GKG), a global financial services conglomerate, has appointed David Papier as Head of Institutional Sales for GKPro, its UK based B2B broker.
The appointment will be followed by further top-level hires, as GKPro continues to expand in the B2B space, the company said.
With 12 years of broking industry experience, Papier began his career at trading platform CMC Markets and went on to hold senior client management positions at ETX Capital, the derivatives provider.
The expansion of GKPro comes as GKG seeks to expand its brokerage services globally.
FCA-regulated GKPro provides foreign exchange, commodities,
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2022 measured 1.79 per cent, up from 1.52 per cent in January.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2022 of 1.79per cent represents a decrease in redemption notices compared to the 2.37per cent reported for the same period a year ago,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SS&C Technologies. “Moreover, the 1.79 per cent reported is the lowest level of redemptions for any month of February since the inception of the Forward Redemption Indicator in 2008.
“This historically low level of redemptions is particularly noteworthy as it follows
Despite sharp price shocks, the upward momentum in cryptocurrencies and the broader digital asset sector has heralded eye-catching returns for hedge funds over the past 12 months, underlining the asset class’s status as a key area of focus in alternatives.
WTW has appointed Kate Hollis as Global Head of Credit, Manager Research, in its Investments business.
In this role, Hollis is responsible for a team of over fifteen people and the ratings and performance of all Credit products representing in excess of USD250 billion of assets across WTW’s global client base. She has been promoted from her role leading the Traditional Credit research team. She will remain an Investment Committee member for WTW’s alternative credit fund (Towers Watson Investment Management Alternative Credit Fund).
Hollis joins the Manager Research leadership team whose members also include Chris Redmond, Head of Manager Research;
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore) has launched a new solution focusing on Carbon Conscious Investing (CCI), the first European private market solution to provide line-by-line greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting for a corporate credit portfolio.
The model and methodology, developed in-house by AlbaCore, reflects the portfolio’s GHG footprint for all scenarios including when public data is not available. The GHG data is integrated into AlbaCore’s internal risk system that is monitored on an ongoing basis to continue to refine the CCI footprint analysis as data quality improves and regulatory pressure encourages more companies to report.
The CCI solution will
