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Equitas CEO and Founder, David Thomas voiced his appreciation and pride over winning the ‘Best Multi-Strategy, Multi-Manager Fund Award’ of 2021. “This award is the culmination of years of effort we poured into the Equitas Evergreen Fund. The strength of our organisation, our personnel, our due diligence process, and the resulting performance, deserve recognition. We couldn’t have done it without support from our strong staff, impressive network and, of course, our loyal clients,” Thomas concludes.
The last 18 months have been a very challenging period for everyone. However, as a small company, Fairlight Capital was already working via video calls and using cloud file storage meaning work challenges were not as great for them as for some others.
Responding to Covid-19
In fact, Andrew Martin, Managing Director of Fairlight, says: “In terms of meeting with investors and arranging third-party calls, the acceleration of remote-working technologies has probably helped us.”
He adds: “We believed that the markets and economies would bounce back strongly after the dip in March 2020, and so we rotated the portfolio, using
In early February 2020, Haitou Global anticipated the inevitable global spread of Covid-19, based on its first-hand experience of SARS in 2003 in China.
Following the hurdles generated throughout 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions, the capital raising environment for hedge funds over the course of 2021 has been generally positive. Experts at eVestment detail the outcome of 2021. “If forced to make an educated guess, it would seem net flow in 2021 will end up reversing the theme of net outflows the industry has felt over the prior three years.” The data provider adds that there are factors that appear to be positively influencing some segments, but which could hurt others.
Central to how New York-based alternative asset manager, Calvion navigated the last 18 months was a combination of three factors: “An excellent team and a flexible process which allowed us to quickly react to the rapid changes we all experienced in Q1; a rigorous investment process and risk management framework specifically geared towards the type of macro regime shifts and political catalysts that we have witnessed; and great investors with whom we worked closely throughout the last 18 months,” according to Pascal Kummert, Founder and CIO.
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched an automated Three-Way Reconciliation solution to tackle MiFIR transaction reporting issues.
The technology enables firms to fulfil their reconciliation requirements, validate their MiFIR reporting data and easily address errors – ensuring that reporting has been done completely and accurately.
Complete and accurate reporting data is critical for regulators to maintain fair and orderly markets. However, the industry has struggled with data integrity issues since MiFID II came into effect.
The reconciliation requirement (under Article 13 (3) and (4) of RTS 22) exists to enhance reporting quality by making firms
LGT Capital Partners, a global specialist in Alternative investing, has hired Wael El Burji as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer to head and expand its presence in the Middle East.
Vidrio Financial, a provider of managed data services and software for institutional alternative allocators globally, has made significant updates to its services and platform to supports the unique needs of institutional investors who allocate to external alternative asset funds, including hedge fund and private equity managers.
“As we continue to build on our long-term vision to become the de facto solution for institutional allocators, over the last 12 months we have made a series of updates to the Vidrio offering. These enhancements enable our clients to better manage their complex alternative investments and external manager relationships through deeper insights and
The European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT), European Energy Exchange (EEX) and European Commodity Clearing (ECC) plan to jointly launch a pan-European market for Guarantees of Origin (GOs) as part of EEX Group’s ongoing efforts to support the energy transition with market-based instruments.
The planned GOs spot auctions will be held once a month and operated by EPEX SPOT, Europe’s leading power spot exchange, under the exchange’s membership and market rules. Clearing and settlement will be conducted by the clearing house ECC and EEX will ensure delivery through its French GO registry. The launch of the new trading products is envisaged
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD306 million last week, bringing month-to-date inflows to USD787 million and year-to-date inflows to a record USD9.5 billion, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report fro CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw the largest inflows in 5 weeks totalling USD247 million following the launch of another investment product in Europe.
In terms of inflows relative to AuM, Polkadot and Solana continue to be the winners, with inflows representing 8.6 per cent (USD11.5 million) and 5.9 per cent (USD14.6 million) of AuM respectively last week.
CoinShares is now tracking blockchain exchange-traded products, which currently
