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Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management has its sights set on establishing a European presence for its hedge fund business, according to a report in the Financial Times.
The Toronto-based firm’s Brookfield Hedge Fund Solutions Advisors, a USD1 billion multi-strategy unit trading areas such as equity market neutral and event-driven, has, until now, based all of its trading teams in New York.
According to the report though, the firm is now actively recruiting for a European team which will be operate out of a new office in London.
Trian Fund Management, the activist hedge fund run by Nelson Peltz, has acquired a stake in Unilever Plc, according to the Financial Times and Reuters.
ABC arbitrage Asset Management, a French investment management company licensed by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABC arbitrage, has appointed Alexandre Ospital as it Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
LoCorr Funds, a provider of low-correlating investment solutions, has marked the 10-year anniversary milestone of its Long/Short Commodities Strategy Fund (LCSAX, LCSCX, LCSIX).
LoCorr Long/Short Commodities Strategy Fund is a multi-manager commodities strategy with the flexibility to take both long and short positions in global commodity markets. The Fund seeks to provide portfolio diversification through low correlation to traditional markets and has the potential for profit during both rising and falling commodity markets.
Less than 11 per cent of funds in Morningstar’s Systematic Trend Category achieve this longevity.
Hanover Investors has appointed Brett Lankester, the former Chief Executive of UBP London, as a Senior Partner.
Lankester is spearheading the development of the firm’s capital raising and investor relations capabilities. Along with Matthew Peacock, the Founder and Chairman of the specialist investor, and with other Senior Partners, he will also be involved in developing the strategic direction of the firm which operates in under-analysed and illiquid markets.
Lankester is a senior figure in the sector; he was UBP’s London Chief Executive for three years following the Swiss private bank’s acquisition of ACPI Investment Managers, which he co-founded in 2007.
Private equity firm Montagu has completed its investment in Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk, and compliance services to the asset management industry, while Hg, a global software and services investor, is also joining as a strategic investor and joint shareholder in the firm.
Montagu first announced its investment in Waystone in July 2021. Hg’s investment is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
Founded in 2000 and based in Dublin, Waystone serves clients with assets under management totalling more than USD1 trillion, delivering the tools and expertise to manage their governance and regulatory requirements, enabling them to
The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering proposals to tighten the disclosure deadline for hedge funds that hold significant shares in companies, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Qblue Balanced (Qblue), a Copenhagen based asset manager, and Heptagon Capital (Heptagon), a London based asset management firm, have jointly launched an Article 9 equity fund – ‘Qblue Global Sustainable Leaders Fund’.
The fund went live with USD140.5 million on Wednesday, 12 January 2022 as a sub fund within Heptagon’s USD8 billion Irish UCITS fund umbrella.
The Qblue Global Sustainable Leaders Fund investment team is led by CIO Fredrik Martinsson and is focused on a data driven and systematic investment process with a strong focus on sustainability. The Fund invests in companies that have come the furthest in the field
A tipping point has been reached where the maturity of and regulatory clarity of the cryptocurrency asset have passed the threshold for institutional investors to make significant allocations.
FTX US Derivatives, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated digital asset futures & options exchange and clearinghouse, has named its Board of Directors. Larry E Thompson has been named as Chairman of the Board and will be joined by professionals from the traditional finance, crypto and regulatory landscapes.
Since launching in 2017, FTX US Derivatives, previously known as LedgerX, has made crypto-related options and swaps contracts available to both retail and institutional investors 24/7. The Company pioneered bitcoin mini contracts in the US and its offerings include physical settlement of all contracts, block trading and algorithmic trading opportunities for
