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The Archegos meltdown, the “meme stock” short-selling squeeze, and new curbs on Chinese education stocks contributed to a “significant stress test” for the prime brokerage sector in 2021, one which potentially heralds far-reaching consequences for the ways prime brokers and hedge funds do business in the future.
Franklin Resources, a global investment management organization operating as Franklin Templeton, has completed its acquisition of quantitative asset management firm O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM).
SW Capital, a USD50 million AUM Germany-based hedge fund, has seeded its decentralised spin-off SW DAO with USD750,000 in capital for its tokenised investment portfolios.
Some USD500,000 of capital has been deployed into SW DAO’s tokenised Yield Farming fund, SW Yield Fund (SWYF), while an additional USD250,000 of capital has also been deployed into SW DAOs flagship product the SW Alpha Portfolio (SWAP).
Both these products are tokenised variants of SW DAO’s public investment strategies which have shown alpha-generating results since their launch in mid-2020.
All profits generated from these SW Capital investments will be provided directly to the SW
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD9.3 billion in 2021, a 36 per cent increase from the USD6.8 billion seen in 2020, according to the data release bu CoinShares.
While the increase from 2019 to 2020 was significantly higher at 806 per cent, CoinShares says this represents a maturing industry, with total assets under management (AuM) ending the year at USD62.5 billion.
The total number of coins in investment product form has expanded from nine to 15, with 37 investment products launched in 2021 versus 24 in 2020 bringing the overall total to 132, a sign of the growing demand and popularity of digital assets, according to CoinShares.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added David S Hong as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Department based in the Los Angeles office. Hong was previously a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Hong focuses his practice on the formation and operation of private funds across the spectrum of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital, growth equity, hedge and hybrid funds. He represents emerging and institutional private fund sponsors in fund formations, fund investment matters, seed capital arrangements, complex restructurings, structuring of investment management businesses and regulatory, compliance and operational issues. In addition, he represents
Pico, a provider of technology, data and analytic services for the financial markets community, has acquired Redline Trading Solutions (Redline), a provider of high performance trading and market data software solutions.
The addition of Redline’s multi-asset software solutions will provide access to a common API for global markets, both real-time and historical, delivered via Pico’s global network. The combined offering reduces complexity by allowing trading firms to optimise market access and coverage and trading stack performance in a seamless manner.
Redline provides ultra-low latency software solutions and common APIs to over 180 global venues serving a marquee client roster that
Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from financial transaction data, and 1010data, a provider of analytical intelligence, enterprise analytics and collaboration capabilities to the retail, consumer brands, and capital markets sectors, have formed a strategic partnership, enabling the companies to provide enhanced data and analytics to clients within the investment services, retail and consumer brands industries.
As part of the agreement, Facteus will acquire 1010data’s Equity Intelligence business, strengthening Facteus’ position in delivering unique transaction data insights and analysis to the investment services industry. 1010data will gain access to Facteus’ US Consumer Payments data panels to explore enhancing the company’s
S&P Global has acquired The Climate Service, a specialist in analysing climate risks.
The acquisition will add capabilities to S&P Global’s portfolio of essential environmental, social, and governance (ESG) insights and solutions for its customers. Through this acquisition, S&P Global will be able to offer its clients even more transparent, robust and comprehensive climate data, models and analytics.
The Climate Service has developed an application for physical climate risk analytics for corporates, investors and governments. The company provides the Climanomics platform, a tool that quantifies climate risk. The outputs, including modelled transition risk and physical risk analysis presented in
90 West, a provider of a unique consumer transactions dataset covering the entire United States market, with a particular concentration on the midwest region, has formed a partnership with Exabel which will result in the creation of a new insights platform for 90 West’s investment clients.
The 90 West Insights Platform will give portfolio managers and hedge funds additional insights based on 90 West’s unique panel of consumer transaction data, which track the pricing and performance trends across a broad range of companies. The platform delivers user-friendly dashboards, visualisations and KPI monitoring capabilities. This assists investors in idea generation by
Agecroft Partners’ has made his 13th annual predictions for the biggest trends in the hedge fund industry for 2022. These predictions are based on insights from more than 2,000 institutional investors globally and hundreds of hedge fund organisations. The hedge fund industry is dynamic and Agecroft believes 2022 will be the most transformative in its history…
