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In mid-January 2022, South Florida will host thousands of alternative investment fund managers and investors attending multiple capital introduction conferences. Gaining the Edge, one of the industry’s prominent thought leaders and event organisers, has announced a strategy to improve networking across these multiple events while raising money for charities that benefit at risk youth.
Gaining the Edge will host a day of charitable, social activities open to all industry professionals including those attending other cap intro events on Saturday, 22 January, directly following its Gaining the Edge Cap Intro Florida conference.
Opening participation to attendees of other, potentially competing,
Align, a global provider of technology infrastructure solutions and Managed IT Services, has been voted as “Best Cybersecurity Provider” in the Hedgeweek US Awards 2021.
This recognition is based on an online peer-review survey in which investors, hedge fund managers and service providers are invited to nominate a “best-in-class” in a variety of categories.
Over the past 18 months, Align Managed Services and its dedicated Cybersecurity Advisory team have ensured that their clients were able to operate their firms seamlessly and securely while addressing the compliance, operational and security challenges associated with the pandemic and subsequent industry shifts.
“To meet
Bitcoin Latinum (LTNM), the next generation, insured, asset-backed cryptocurrency, has officially listed on the DigiFinex exchange, opening over 200 per cent in its first hour of trading. Bitcoin Latinum congratulates DigiFinex on a successful launch, and everyone who has supported the project.
Monsoon Blockchain, Bitcoin Latinum’s developer, plans for Bitcoin Latinum to officially list on seven top-tier public exchanges, under the ticker LTNM. In addition to DigiFinex, the exchanges are: HitBTC (the fifth largest exchange by volume at USD4 billion), FMFW (formerly Bitcoin.com and operating with USD3.3 billion in daily trading volume), Changelly (USD2.71 billion in daily volume), Changelly Pro,
Hedge funds are well-placed to outperform other assets classes in a potentially choppy market environment during the fourth quarter, with commodities, event driven and certain credit strategies faced with a rich opportunity set and strong upside potential as markets adjust to a post-Covid world.
In its latest ‘Fourth-Quarter Hedge-Fund Strategy Outlook’, K2 Advisors said global equities and bond markets are now locked in a “tug-of-war” between good news and bad news, which is shaping the way investors position their portfolios.
“Change creates opportunities for those nimble enough to capture the new tailwinds while hedging out the risks associated with a
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has appointed Josh McLane and Niya Tang as partners in the firm’s Tax, Employee Benefits, Trusts & Estates practice group.
McLane is based in the firm’s Orange County office and was most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Tang joins the firm’s New York office and was most recently a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig. Sheppard Mullin has added 20 lateral partners this year.
“Our transactional tax partners have been extremely busy due, in large part, to the sustained surge in the deals being handled by our corporate group,” says Jon Newby, vice chairman of
As any start-up founder knows, launching a new business can be an exhausting and all-consuming experience. When not dealing with day-to-day operations or handling accounts, there are investors to deal with and venture funding to be raised, often from multiple backers with competing agendas.
Apex Group has appointed Paul Monahan as Head of Corporate Services, Jersey and Chantal Slabber as Head of Client Services & Operations, Jersey.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows last week totalling USD1.47 billion, the largest on record by a significant margin, according to the latest Weekly Digital Asset Flows report from CoinShares.
During the week total assets under management reached a new record of USD79.2 billion but closed week-end at USD76.7 billion.
The record inflows were a direct result of the US Securities & Exchange Commission allowing a Bitcoin ETF investing in futures and the consequent listing of two Bitcoin investment products with inflows totalling USD1.24 billion.
Other altcoins saw inflows with the most notable being Solana, Cardano and Binance.
As more alternative fund managers explore the yield opportunities in private debt, one of the risks is introducing too much complexity to their middle- and back-office operations. Outdated accounting and portfolio management systems or insufficient internal resources for tracking individual loan performance increase that risk.
The recent steady flow of new investor capital into hedge funds this year could be showing signs of slowing down, with less than half of managers (44 per cent) seeing positive inflows in September, according to new eVestment research.
Overall, investors yanked USD7.99 billion out of the global hedge fund industry during September, according to eVestment’s latest ‘Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report’. Coupled with a performance slide of 0.57 per cent for the month, hedge funds’ overall assets dipped from USD3.62 trillion in August to USD3.59 trillion in September, eVestment’s metrics show.
“That quarter-end data would show outflows is not
