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The Trium Sustainable Innovators has launched the Leonie & Norman Institute, a new think tank focused on advocating ESG best practice within the asset management industry.
Quant technology provider SigTech has launched a new Data Showroom, which revolutionises the way data owners sell their data to fund managers and asset owners, reducing the sales cycle from months to weeks.
Qontigo, a provider of risk, analytics and index solutions, has introduced a Carbon Emission Price factor within the Axioma Worldwide Macroeconomic Projection Equity Factor Risk Model (Macro Projection Model).
Designed to capture the investment risk of a global, regional or single-country portfolio through the lens of macroeconomic risk factors, the Macro Projection Model also decomposes risks driven by interest rate, inflation and commodities.
“As more institutional investors turn to sustainable investing, it’s critical for them to be able to get a clearer picture of the distribution of their risk based on macroeconomic exposures, including those driven by ESG-related factors,” says
Maitland has made four senior appointments within its Guernsey Fund Administration division, as it continues to service its growing Guernsey client base.
Harry Rouillard has been appointed Director, whilst Luke Smith, Aimée Gontier, and James Taylor have been appointed as Assistant Mangers.
Guernsey Managing Director, Wikus van Schalkwyk, says: “Now in our fifth year of operation, our Fund Administration business has gone from strength-to-strength via continued robust organic growth. Cultivating our own talent is integral to Maitland’s growth strategy, and we are delighted to have been able to promote staff internally into new roles created to support this.”
Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of UK hedge fund giant Marshall Wace, has donated GBP50 million to the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute to establish a new accelerator programme aimed at tackling future environmental, health, and social inequality challenges.
The Marshall Impact Accelerator – which is being unveiled on finance day at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and is scheduled to launch in spring next year – will provide philanthropic capital for innovative social ventures spanning environment, health, social inequality, public policy and developmental economics challenges.
The initiative will combine LSE’s research expertise and the Marshall
Muzinich & Co has launched a Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) platform and hired Brian Yorke to lead the initiative.
Yorke has over 20 years’ experience in CLOs. Previously he was at Ostrum Asset Management (an affiliate of Natixis Investment Management) where he assisted in the building of the US loan and European CLO businesses. Prior to that, Yorke was Head of Global Performing Credit at Bardin Hill Investment Partners, where, in his 13-year tenure, he introduced and implemented a rigorous risk management process for loan and CLO accounts. Brian began his career at PGIM, Inc where he was one of
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) DTCC Exception Manager, its platform to publish, manage and communicate trade exceptions, is now offering an optional Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) service to assist clients by calculating predicted fail penalties, prioritising exceptions by size of predicted penalty and generating claim emails.
Suzanne Beckett from Blick Rothenberg’s Financial Services team takes an in-depth look at partial exemption special methods and the benefits available to private equity firms.
CVC Credit has priced Cordatus XXII, a Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) fund totalling EUR440 million and arranged by Deutsche Bank.
This is the sixth new CLO fund CVC Credit has priced globally this year and will take its total assets under management to EUR24 billion.
Cordatus XXII was significantly oversubscribed and raised from both new and long-standing existing investors. The fund priced at the tight end of the market, with the AAAs at 94bps, which is the tightest long dated CLO print seen in Europe in H2 2021. As with previous Cordatus CLOs, the fund is primarily comprised of
Apex Group (Apex), a global financial services provider, has been appointed to provide fund administration and accounting services to Marlin Capital Partners (Marlin).
Marlin Capital Partners is headquartered in Nassau, The Bahamas and is licensed and regulated by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas to offer advisory services and manage assets on a discretionary basis.
Marlin has appointed Apex Group and subsidiary Throgmorton to provide outsourced Management Company, Middle Office and Fund Administration services. This appointment comes ahead of the launch of Marlin’s Dauntless Fund, which will focus on arbitrage opportunities within the digital asset space.
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