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A first-of-its-kind report on separately managed accounts (SMAs) in the hedge fund industry from national law firm Seward & Kissel LLP reveals that investor demand for bespoke products has resulted in an increase in SMAs.
The SMA Snapshot Report offers detailed metrics on the individualised accounts that are increasingly favoured by large ticket investors.
“The demand by investors for specific terms and strategy exposure is substantial, and only growing, which has been a large contributor to the increase in SMAs,” says Steve Nadel, a partner in the Investment Management Group of Seward & Kissel and lead author of The
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company providing ESG solutions to the asset management industry, has now delivered its ESG scoring tools to CarVal Investors (CarVal), a global alternative investment manager, to support its risk scoring methodology.
This follows the Company’s previous announcement “Insig to support CarVal Clean CLO Product Line” released on 23 July 2021.
Insig AI’s ESG solutions supports CarVal’s ESG risk assessment model measuring each asset across six themes:
Climate Change, including carbon emissions and carbon footprint
Natural Capital, including raw material sourcing and water stress
Pollution, including toxic emissions and waste
Human
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry with USD1.3 trillion in global AUA, and Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company redefining data management processes for alternative investors and allocators, have formed a strategic partnership to provide clients with alternative data management solutions that combine best-of-breed automated technology and data accuracy.
Enterprai – an AI-powered SaaS workstation for global macro professionals – has launched a set of products offering global macro portfolio managers, traders, and analysts a new way to stay on top of financial markets.
Off the back of strong demand for its product the Company is now embarking on its next funding round, seeking to raise a further USD10 million of growth capital to invest in tech and talent to further fuel client expansion.
Following 18 months of product research and development, Enterprai has built a proprietary event-driven architecture powering supervised machine learning models. From today, subscribers can scan, analyse,
Hedge fund strategies have lagged stock markets and traditional equity/bond portfolios in recent years, driving down management and performance fees – but firms led by women and minorities are pulling ahead of their industry peers when it comes to returns, new data published by Bloomberg shows.
BSO, a global infrastructure and connectivity provider, has become an approved international network provider for Brazilian stock exchange B3.
B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão), headquartered in São Paulo is the largest exchange in Latin America and BSO is now the lowest-latency vendor registered with the exchange and connecting international traders to the Latin American hub. By strengthening its Latin American offering and widening access to the region, BSO is providing international traders with faster, more cost-effective access to one of the world’s most promising financial services market.
The connection is bolstered by BSO’s recent introduction of a direct ultra-low latency
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has launched the EEX Weekly European Cheese Indices (WECI) which will bring further price transparency to the European dairy market.
Launched in September 2019, the Trium ESG Emissions Impact Fund uses a market neutral long/short investment strategy to target high-emitting companies in hard-to-abate sectors – such as energy, mining and chemicals – where successful transformations in the form of decarbonisation and lower CO2 emissions can offer attractive long-term returns.
BestEx Research Group, a provider of algorithmic execution and measurement solutions for equities, futures, and foreign exchange trading, has appointed industry veteran Hector Robles as Managing Director of Business Development to expand the firm’s futures business.
Robles will report to Founder and CEO Hitesh Mittal as BestEx Research aggressively expands its footprint in the futures market.
“Hector is arriving at a pivotal time in our growth,” says Mittal, “and we are confident that his deep knowledge of the complexities of algorithmic futures execution and his diverse experiences in senior roles at institutions large and small will help drive our expansion
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD174 million last week, marking the 12th consecutive week of inflows, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from Coinshares.
This brings year-to-date inflows to USD8.9 billion, significantly greater than the USD6.7 billion seen in 2020.
Bitcoin inflows in this eight-week bull-run now total USD2.8 billion with year-to-date inflows now at a record USD6.4 billion.
Tron, a digital platform focussed primarily on hosting entertainment applications, has seen inflows totalling USD79 million over the last seven weeks making it the eighth largest by AuM.
