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Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm, has appointed Cesar Estrada has been appointed as the firm’s Private Markets Segment Head.
Estrada will be responsible for overseeing Arcesium’s application of its core competencies in data integration and harmonisation to the investment lifecycle of managers in private capital markets, including private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure. The new segment represents an expansion for Arcesium beyond its historical focus on supporting more than USD630 billion in assets of hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, and institutional asset managers.
Estrada joins Arcesium from State Street, where he served as
Spot Intraday markets operated by EPEX SPOT were up 17 per cent y-o-y in November to 11.1 TWh with Nordic markets reporting a new high to 428.9 GWh (previous record in July 2020: 346.5 GWh).
Both Swiss and Greek Power Futures reported triple-digit growth to 1.7 TWh and 1.4 TWh respectively, while Austrian Power Futures hit a new record with 6.2 TWh traded (previous record in December 2019: 4.6 TWh).
Japanese Power Derivatives achieved a volume of 554.1 GWh (+269 per cent), while US Power Derivatives recorded 247.3 TWh, increasing by 142 per cent compared to the same period last year.
CAMRADATA has published a new whitepaper, Absolute Return Investing which considers if the strategy can still generate positive returns for investors as the world moves through the pandemic.
The white paper includes insight from firms including Amundi Asset Management, Artemis, Unigestion, bfinance, Capita, Law Debenture and Local Pensions Partnership who attended a virtual roundtable hosted by CAMRADATA in October.
The report highlights that absolute return investing strategies – which seek to generate positive returns over time regardless of market conditions – should be able to thrive in the current market uncertainty.
However, the absolute return space has recently
As risk management processes become increasingly challenging, with asset managers caught in a pincer movement between greater regulatory burdens and more complex client demands, a well-run managed service solution can help investment firms meet the institutional standards of today’s allocators, according to a new white paper published by Landytech.
CTAs’ run of positive performance over the last 12 months came to an abrupt end in November, as news of the Omicron Covid-19 variant hit markets at the end of the month, according to the latest figures from Society Generale.
The flagship SG CTA Index was down -3.79 per cent in November but is still strongly positive so far this year at 5.71 per cent. Likewise, the SG Trend Index lost -4.71 per cent for the month, but still stands up 8.59 per cent year-to-date, with one month still to go.
All of the individual CTA constituents of both indices
Shant H Chalian has joined Day Pitney LLP as counsel in the firm’s Investment Management and Private Funds practice, resident in its Stamford office. He joins the firm from Robinson + Cole.
Chalian’s overall practice is focused on fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and securities. He assists a range of clients, including private equity and hedge funds and their sponsors, large corporations, middle-market companies, family-owned businesses, and venture capital groups.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD184 million last week, although the sharp price weakness at the end week did lead to USD40 million of outflows late Friday, according to the latest, Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw inflows totalling USD145 million last week although it suffered at the end of the week with outflows of USD42 million on Friday and bore the brunt of investor jitters.
Solana saw continued inflows totalling USD4.6. millionfor the week, seemingly unaffected by the recent price jitters.
Blockchain Equity ETPs saw inflows totalling USD75 million for the week.
Intelligo, the provider of an AI-powered background risk intelligence platform for investment due diligence, has appointed Dan Reidy as the Vice President of Sales in North America. He will be based in Chicago.
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in collaboration with Vanguard and Symbiont, have jointly completed the margin calculation process for a live trade of a 30-day foreign exchange forward contract through the use of Assembly, Symbiont’s distributed ledger technology.
Maso Capital, an event driven and convertible arbitrage-focused hedge fund based in Hong Kong, was established in 2012 by Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana, who previously managed money for Och-Ziff’s Asia-focused strategies.
