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Alveo, a provider of cloud-based market data management services, has launched new data distribution capability, Delta.
By using the latest cloud technologies, Delta significantly accelerates the time needed to deploy data sets into business user workflows and business applications. The solution is an integral part of Alveo’s overall data management suite which includes its Prime data mastering solutions and its Alpha Datawarehouse.
Delta – like other components of Alveo’s data management solutions – builds on open-source technologies. Clients can choose to stream data using the Kafka distributed event streaming platform or send defined exports of data sets via csv, xml,
Allianz SE has settled a law suit filed by a group of investors over the failure of the company’s US-based Structured Alpha hedge funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Raytheon Technologies pension systems, who claimed they lost billions of dollars as a result of the fund failures, filed requests for dismissal with a judge after agreeing to a settlement with Allianz SE. The settlement is also believed to cover over 20 public pension funds, including the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and the Employees’ Retirement System of the City of Milwaukee.
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The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has created a forum of alternative investment industry organisations committed to addressing diversity in the alternatives industry.
The forum is chaired by the SBAI and its members include 100 Women in Finance, The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), The Asset Owner Charter UK, CFA Institute, The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), The Diversity Project, The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), Investor Leadership Network (ILN), and The Value Reporting Foundation (VRF).
Diversity is a widely discussed topic
Aaro Capital, a DLT and crypto assets investment specialist, has published a new white paper “Introductory Guide to DLT and Cryptoassets” which offers a comprehensive easy-to-understand guide to various notions and technologies pertinent to the crypto space.
Featuring an A-Z Crypto Jargon Glossary that explains key concepts and terms in a thoughtful and accessible way, this white paper is particularly timely as blockchain technology and cryptoassets are quickly becoming an inevitable part of the future of global finance. Estimates by PwC and Gartner Research on the value that blockchain technology will deliver by 2030 range into trillions of dollars. Fidelity
VIA AM has promoted Jordan Alloun to Head of Equity Research & Technology.
Alloun spent over six years in the equity research team, improving, strengthening, automating and leveraging the 20-plus years of research in accounting normalisation.
Prior to joining VIA, Alloun held positions at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, in London and New York. He graduated from Columbia University (MIA in Energy) and Sciences Po Paris (Ms in Finance), where he has been a Financial Market lecturer for the past four years.
The US Securities & Exchange Commission has proposed a rule change that would make it easier for investors to sue hedge funds for negligence than it is to sue mutual funds, according to a report by Risk.Net.
New proposals from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would force hedge funds and other large investors would have to disclose significantly more information about the stocks they short, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Proposed Rule 13f-2 and Form SHO would mean that money managers would the to submit monthly filings to the regulator outlining large equity short positions. While information such as the identity of fund managers and their individual positions would remain confidential, the SEC says it would make some aggregate data about individual equity large short positions available to the public.
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Paramount Group has confirmed that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Monarch Alternative Capital LP to acquire all of the Company’s outstanding common stock for USD12.00 per share in cash.
Paramount Group is a fully-integrated real estate investment trust that owns, operates, manages, acquires and redevelops high-quality, Class A office properties located in select central business district submarkets of New York City and San Francisco
Consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, the Paramount Board of Directors will carefully review the unsolicited proposal to determine the course of action that
Alpha Whale Fund is about to be the first NFT project to ever run a community crypto hedge fund with the imminent release of 5,000 unique NFTs.
The Alpha Whale Fund is more than a traditional NFT because holders will have access to a vault accumulation fund, where 50 per cent of proceeds from NFT sales, mint, and royalties are shared. Alpha Whale Fund’s primary focus is building long-term, hands-off wealth for its community. This is why each holder will receive a share of the vault’s holdings based on the number of NFTs held.
Alpha Whale Fund will be sending
A hedge fund that is trying to buy newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises has lost a legal battle to prevent the company from using a system that would see two longtime directors reelected at its annual meeting next month.
