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New research from Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel) reveals that institutional investors with exposure to Bitcoin will increasingly invest in altcoins (a cryptocurrency other than bitcoin).
Institutional investors and wealth managers from the US, UK, France, Germany, and the UAE who collectively have USD275.5 billion in assets under management were surveyed, and 32 per cent predict that professional investors with an allocation to Bitcoin will invest in altcoins for the first time over the next 12 months. One in three (33 per cent) believe they will dramatically increase their allocation, and 29 per cent think they will do so slightly.
EisnerAmper’s 6th Annual Alternative Investment Summit will be held virtually on Thursday, 7 October, 2021. This year’s theme is: What’s Around the Bend: The Future of Alternative Investments.
The Summit features top investors and fund managers providing perspectives on current trends, opportunities, and what the future holds for the hedge fund, private equity, venture capital and alternative investment markets. This thought-provoking afternoon features highly interactive panel discussions that will cover issues and insights affecting the alternative investments industry, as well as offers a macro perspective on the economic market outlook, global landscape, current market volatility and more.
This year’s
Currency-focused investment manager Millennium Global Investments has launched a new systematic long/short currency hedge fund strategy to tap into burgeoning demand for non-correlated returns in what it calls a “favourable” investment environment.
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management and portfolio finance solutions to alternative investment managers, and IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, have formed a strategic alliance to offer clients an integrated treasury and portfolio finance solution powered by IHS Markit’s Securities Finance dataset.
The integrated solutions enable clients to trade and operate more directly, transparently and efficiently and to obtain a composite overview of their entire positions, margin and risk profile.
Hazeltree’s products help over 200 leading hedge fund managers globally to transform how they manage counterparties to increase returns by 40-80 basis points,
As part of its initiative to digitalise alternative asset servicing, Northern Trust has launched an artificial intelligence-powered solution to extract unstructured investment data from alternative asset documents and make it accessible and actionable for asset owner clients.
Built in collaboration with Microsoft Azure Applied AI Services, which accelerate time to value for enterprises building AI solutions, and business and consulting firm Neudesic, the proprietary solution transforms crucial information such as capital call notices, cash and stock distribution notices, and capital account statements from a variety of unstructured formats into digital, actionable insights for investment teams.
“The integration of unstructured
By Juan Cruz (pictured), Founding Partner and CIO, Cygnus Asset Management – On the path towards a net zero emissions world, some sectors will multiply their activity (multiples), others will reduce it substantially (fractions), and others will disappear (zeros). How can hedge funds and other asset managers navigate the emerging investment opportunities?
Net assets of UCITS and AIFs increased by 4.1 per cent in Q2 2021, taking total net new money in H1 2021 to EUR430 billion, according to the latest quarterly European statistics from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
UCITS net assets grew by 4.5 per cent and net assets of AIFs grew by 3.4 per cent as they cross the EUR20 trillion threshold.
Net sales of UCITS amounted to EUR210 billion, and net inflows into AIFs amounted to 18 billion. During the first half of 2021, UCITS and AIFs attracted EUR430 billion in net new money.
Wheelhouse Advisors, an award-winning provider of prudential management, regulatory reporting, accounting, tax and payroll services to the financial services sector has released a new report detailing the findings of in-depth impact assessment work, undertaken with clients over the past 12 months.
Monroe Capital has expanded its platform to Asia with the appointment of Alex Kim, as Managing Director and Head of Asia. The newly opened office in Seoul, South Korea reflects Monroe’s commitment to expanding its business in Asia.
BSO, in partnership with Geneva-based ImpactScope, a social enterprise providing carbon offsetting solutions to digital asset exchanges and crypto mining companies, has become the first connectivity provider to offer clients that trade cryptocurrencies the means to calculate and offset the excess carbon emissions of their operations.
The criticism of cryptocurrencies’ energy consumption and its related carbon footprint is a major challenge for all players in the crypto space and is being addressed at both a corporate and regulatory level by mandates such as the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which comes into force in January 2022. In line
