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Man GLG, the discretionary investing unit of London-listed global alternative investment giant Man Group, has launched a new sustainability-focused long/short equity hedge fund which will trade across regions and sectors with a positive ESG bias.
The Man GLG RI Global Sustainable Growth Alternative UCITS strategy – which is classified as an Article 8 product under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) – is targeting absolute returns. It takes a positive ESG bias in global markets, combining a high-conviction long portfolio of 25-45 stocks with a short book designed to hedge market and factor risk. The short portfolio also aims
JTC has acquired Ballybunion Capital Limited (Ballybunion), a boutique asset manager based in Ireland. The initial consideration will be settled in cash and JTC equity. A further deferred consideration is available on the achievement of performance targets in the current year.
Founded in 2009, the Ballybunion provides management and regulatory oversight services to investment funds and offers ManCo services as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) as well as portfolio management and risk management solutions.
Ballybunion has a strong reputation and its solutions based service offering has focused on the premium end of the market, covering both alternative and traditional
LSEG’s (London Stock Exchange Group) Turquoise Plato is connecting to OpenFin in response to the industry need for workflow efficiencies, application interoperability, and a more unified desktop experience for the buy-side and member firm users.
Turquoise has a proven track record in delivering innovation and liquidity opportunities to the market, with Turquoise Plato Block Discovery having seen record levels of block trading activity on Turquoise and Turquoise Europe in 2020. With this collaboration, Turquoise is continuing to deliver on its mission to identify efficient, collaborative operating models that reduce the implicit cost of trading, contribute to long-term investment returns and
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, has launched IvyDB Borrow Rate offering insights on the options-implied costs of short-selling individual securities computed intraday across maturities.
The new dataset gives institutional investors and academia valuable information to pinpoint short-selling pressure, analyse dynamic borrowing conditions, and improve research on short-selling positions.
Announcement of this new product comes as interest in short-selling (or borrowing shares of a stock to sell with hopes to buy it back cheaper) continues to grow, with GameStop and other meme stocks hitting trading highs earlier this year as just one
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore) has made three senior hires to reinforce its Operations, Business Development and Investor Relations teams.
As part of the growth of the AlbaCore platform, investing across the European credit spectrum with USD8.5bn AUM, AlbaCore has bolstered its senior executive group. Jenny Fung is appointed as Managing Director of Investor Relations in New York to further expand global investor relationships and our commitment to the region. Tara Mulholland joins as Head of Business Transformation and Micaela Kelley as Deputy Chief Operating Officer to support Matthew Courey, Chief Operating Officer and Founding Partner.
Fung brings
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD42 million last week, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows weekly report from CoinShares.
Inflows were seen across all digital assets and signals what we believe to be continued improving sentiment amongst investors.
Bitcoin saw inflows of USD15 million, having suffered the most from negative investor sentiment recently with inflows in only three of the last 16 weeks.
Solana, despite recovering from a network outage caused by a DDoS attack, saw inflows of USD4.8 million. This suggests investors were happy to shrug-off the attack, seeing it as teething problems rather than
Umbria’s ultra-low-cost liquidity bridge now supports ETH and MATIC in addition to USDT and UMBR.
Using Narni, the native tokens for the Ethereum and Polygon networks can be transferred exceptionally quickly and cheaply cross-chain. ETH, which was launched first, can be bridged from the Ethereum to Polygon Network for as little as USD2.56 in gas, which is significantly less than other bridges. This has caused the Narni Bridge to be adopted rapidly by many DeFi participants and has especially caught the attention of the Zed Run community, who had previously been hampered by prohibitively expensive gas fees.
Another considerable
CME Group has launched what it says is the derivatives industry’s first-ever Sustainable Clearing service to help market participants track and report on how their hedging activities are advancing their sustainability goals.
The recent surge in natural gas prices is helping to generate eye-catching returns for Drury Capital, the long-running US trend-following hedge fund firm led by former grain trader Bernard Drury.
High-net-worth clients from in and around the Southern United States are continuing to favour allocations to an array of niche credit strategies, according to a Dallas-based investment advisor.
