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Quilter Cheviot has strengthened its fund research team with the hire of Ghazanfar Saleem as a fund research analyst.
Reporting to head of investment fund research Nick Wood, Saleem will be responsible for the analysis of alternative funds, including hedge funds, as well as funds within the fixed income universe.
Saleem joins Quilter Cheviot from The Capital Partnership, an asset management and investment platform, where he oversaw hedge fund research and manager selection. He brings with him over 15 years of work experience in alternative investments, having previously worked as a senior analyst at hedge fund consultant Amber Partners, and
Total hedge fund industry capital has passed the USD4 trillion milestone to begin 2022, with managers navigating a volatile Q4 21 driven by another wave of coronavirus variant, as well as rising interest rates and increased expectations for additional increases in 2022.
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners as promoted three senior investment professionals to the role of Partner: Jim Dunbar, Aneek Mamik and Carlos Sanz Esteve.
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Ocorian, the financial services group and provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets and regulatory & compliance services, has been shortlisted as Best Offshore Administrator in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
Ocorian provides bespoke technology-led specialist fund services to private equity, venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure focussed fund managers. It is one of Ocorian’s fastest growing business lines.
The annual Hedgeweek European Awards recognise excellence among fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories. The service provider categories span all the key areas of the broader hedge fund industry ecosystem.
Qontigo, a provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions has entered into a partnership with RepRisk, a pioneer and leader in ESG data science, whereby Qontigo will enable solutions and access to RepRisk ESG risk data via Axioma portfolio analytics and risk models, and build indices under its STOXX family of brands.
Modus.Trade, a crypto specialist investor network, has selected Gold-i Ltd to manage its entire technology infrastructure.
This includes providing access to crypto market makers and clearing using the Gold-i Crypto Switch 2.0 and supporting Modus.Trade’s MT5 trading platform.
Modus.Trade is a crypto fund and online learning platform, with a suite of algorithmic trading strategies. Its client base consists predominantly of fund managers, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. The organisation has seen a surge in demand for its products and services in recent months, trading over USD500 million a month in bitcoin.
Investors are ‘extraordinarily complacent’ about the macro risks currently facing emerging markets, but idiosyncratic investment opportunities still abound, says Andrew Swan, manager of the Man GLG Asia (ex Japan) Equity strategy.
Swan, whose strategy launched in October 2020, says investors are failing to grasp the potential for falls across emerging markets in an environment where growth is slowing and central banks in developed economies are beginning tightening cycles amid surging inflation.
Swan says investment opportunities can still be found in those parts of EMs beginning to recover from Covid disruption, like Southeast Asia and India. But he says opportunities
London-based investment firm, Twenty20 Capital, has joined forces with MP Alpha Capital — making a cornerstone investment into the firm’s “post-Covid” hedge fund.
Graubündner Kantonalbank (GKB) agreed to acquire a stake of around 30 percent in the independent investment manager Twelve Capital Holding AG (Twelve Capital), which specialises in investments in the insurance sector and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Subject to the approval of the competent authorities, the transaction is expected to close in Q2 2022.
A representative of GKB will serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Twelve Capital.
