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Venable has filed a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of Hedgeye Risk Management, an independent investment research and online financial media firm.
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, is expanding its successful emerging market debt (EMD) offering with the launch of the Dublin-domiciled UCITS Neuberger Berman Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund.
Benchmarked against the JPMorgan JESG JACI High Yield Index, the strategy will invest in high yielding, quality-biased Asian credit opportunities displaying strong sustainability profiles.
The Neuberger Berman Sustainable Asia High Yield Fund will be run by portfolio managers Nish Popat based in London, Sean Jutahkiti and Prashant Singh, both based in Singapore. They also oversee the group’s Asian Debt – Hard Currency Fund. The managers will be supported by
An increasing number of hedge funds will begin investing in private companies, despite fears of overheating in the crowded market, according to Dimitry Balyasny, the hedge of US hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Balyasny, goes so far as to suggest that all large hedge funds will eventually invest in start-ups because the divisions between private and public markets are becoming irrelevant.
Tiger Global Management and Coatue Management area among the high-profile hedge funds already investing in private companies they look to generate positive returns for investors.
Several of the trading obstacles for the adoption of cryptocurrencies and digital assets have been overcome, through the advent of derivative instruments. The next frontier of development in the space lies in expanding the number of protocols being used, together with further education to help the asset class and its investors continue to evolve.
Houston-based ESG Enterprise, a US provider of ESG software as a service (SaaS) and a data analytics platform covering NGOs and governmental bodies, has partnered with specialist ESG data and scoring platform GaiaLens.
ESG Enterprise is an SaaS application with ESG data on over 40,000 public, private, municipal and non-profit organisations. Much of this data goes into assessments and reports covering organisations’ activities in more than 100 countries.
GaiaLens analysis covers over 16,000 public companies, with market leading insight into ‘hard to identify’ social and governance data as well as environmental data. This includes data on themes linked to the
Goldman Sachs and Man Group are partnering with the University of Warwick to deliver a new Level 7 Master’s Degree Apprenticeship, providing recent STEM graduates the opportunity to continue their further education while transitioning into full-time employment.
The partnership creates a new graduate pathway into both firms.
Beginning in September 2022, this two-year programme includes funding through the apprenticeship levy for candidates to complete an MSc in Digital & Technological Solutions. The course will focus on the areas of cloud computing, data engineering, software development, testing, and leadership in technology.
Participants will spend 80% of their time with
Amundi has been appointed by St James’s Place (SJP) to manage a new GBP2.8 billion Global Absolute Return Multi-Strategy mandate.
St James’s Place is a UK wealth management firm, founded in 1991, with over GBP153 billion of client funds under management.
The mandate will be sterling-denominated and will target an absolute return of cash + 5-6 per cent over a market cycle, based on a strategy that seeks to deliver positive returns in all market environments in the medium-term, with a low correlation to broader markets. The strategy will employ both directional and relative value investment ideas in the
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2022 measured -2.02 per cent.
NEOR Crypto Volatility Fund Ltd (NEOR) has appointed Apex group to provide fund administration and transfer agency services.
NEOR is a long/short quantitative algo crypto vol trading fund with strategies based on artificial intelligence combined with deep-learning models aimed at identifying trading opportunities by digesting real-time data from multiple sources. Eagle Eye Finance SÃ rl is the exclusive FINMA-regulated Investment Management arm of NEOR for digital asset markets.
NEOR represents a regulated avenue for investment in this innovative and evolving asset class. Through the launch of NEOR, investors can now engage in the cryptocurrency space within the framework of internationally
Active asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) and its impact investment arm Regnan have appointed Ed Geall as Senior Research Analyst – within the Regnan Insight and Advisory Centre.
Geall will be be a key contributor to thematic research, supporting the recently hired teams in Water and Waste and Impact Solutions teams.
Geall most recently served as a Thematic Research Analyst at Newton Investment Management. Here he was responsible for thematic sustainable research supporting a number of key investment teams.
Geall will be based in London and work alongside Osh Siyaguna who relocated from Australia last year to
