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Mayer Brown has appointed investment funds lawyer Matthew Griffin as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice in London.
Griffin advises on fund formations and fund investments across illiquid and liquid asset classes in Europe and around the world for sponsors, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds. His practice also includes advising on co-investments, secondary transactions, carried interest arrangements and other complex fund related matters, including fund restructurings, continuation funds and liquidity events.
Griffin joins Mayer Brown from White & Case, where he was head of the London funds and investment management practice. He has also worked in
CMC Markets Connect, a global provider of institutional trading and technology solutions, has signed a distribution agreement with Integral, a technology provider of cloud-based eFX workflow solutions.
CMC Markets will be distributing its Spot FX and Indices, Treasuries and Commodity CFDs including over 12,000 CFDs covering a range of single stocks and ETFs. Integral clients will have the ability to access pricing as well as execute trades.
RBC Global Asset Management’s specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management, has proved its third European CLO, BBAM European CLO III DAC, and its inaugural public US CLO, BBAM US CLO I.
The European CLO will issue EUR408.15 million notes arranged and placed with a syndicate of leading international institutional investors, by Citigroup Global Markets Limited. The transaction is expected to close on 25 March, 2022.
The US CLO will issue USD401.40 million notes arranged and placed with a syndicate of leading international institutional investors, by Barclays Capital Inc. The transaction is expected to close on 29 March, 2022.
The world’s top 15 hedge fund managers made a USD15.8 billion between them in 2021, according to Bloomberg’s latest rankings.
Proprietary trading firms see the most opportunity in 2022 in crypto-currencies, equity options and interest rate markets, the latest Proprietary Trading Management Insight Report has found.
The report, which is produced in partnership with Avelacom, is compiled based on anonymous submissions by senior executives in Acuiti’s global proprietary trading management network.
The report found that, despite recent falls and uncertainty over the regulatory framework, the sheer scale of volatility in crypto presents enormous opportunities for proprietary trading firms as both retail and institutional activity continues to grow.
In terms of regions, firms saw the most opportunity across all asset classes
Bummer Multi-Strategy BMS is to seed a new systematic macro strategy to be launched by Florin Court Capital LLP (FCC), which currently manages a trend following strategy within alternative markets.
Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has appointed Olivier Renault as Portfolio Manager and Head of Risk Sharing Strategy.
Renault brings over 20 years of experience in structured credit, securitisation and bank capital finance. At Pemberton, he will be responsible for leading its new Risk Sharing Strategy, which sees Pemberton broaden its offering into yet another attractive area of alternative credit.
Pemberton’s new strategy will invest in junior tranches of loan portfolios originated and serviced by banks. Banks execute these transactions to free up lending capacity and regulatory capital. The asset class has grown significantly in the past few years
Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Matthew Moniot and Jonathan Imundo as Co-Heads of Credit Risk Sharing (CRS), bringing a combined 40 years of experience across alternative asset management and banking.
Wellington Management (Wellington) has expanded its Alternative Investments platform through the hiring of the investment team of Shelter Haven Capital Management (Shelter Haven), a market neutral, long/short equity manager that primarily focuses on small and mid-cap companies in the technology, media, telecom and consumer sectors.
The terms of the expansion have not been disclosed.
Shelter Haven was founded in 2017 by Jerry Kochanski, an experienced alternatives portfolio manager, and currently oversees approximately USD350 million in client assets across separate accounts and commingled funds. Shelter Haven’s team of five investment professionals includes Hedge Fund Analysts Ross Hammer and Michael Yuan,
MFS Investment Management (MFS) has appointed Natasha van der Linde as director of Benelux institutional sales.
Van der Linde will be responsible for driving the growth of MFS’ Benelux institutional business. She will focus on MFS’ broad range of fixed income and equity capabilities to Benelux institutions, including local governments, corporate pension funds, charities, insurance companies, fiduciary managers, and consultants.
With 15 years’ industry experience, van der Linde joins from NN Investment Partners (formerly known as ING Investment Management), where she most recently served as client relationship manager and business development manager. She held a number of roles at NN
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