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C8, a fintech platform that offers investors the ability to use direct indexing across all liquid asset classes and investment styles, has launched a China Futures Access vehicle for offshore investors.
The strategy, used by C8’s Chinese onshore clients since 2018, provides institutional investors access to some of the world’s fastest developing futures markets via up to 50 commodity contracts.
The pace of innovation in China’s futures markets is accelerating, particularly in the commodity complex. Recent developments include the launch of the Guangzhou Futures Exchange in April 2021, China’s fifth futures exchange, focused on environmental products including carbon futures
Alderwood Capital (Alderwood), a London-based fund manager, has appointed Cathy Jones as a Partner and a member of its Investment Committee.
A senior human capital executive, Jones focuses on all aspects of high value performance management in the asset management sector, with a particular emphasis on succession planning, understanding how investment teams interact and make successful decisions, and sustaining thriving cultures. Alderwood’s investment process places a heavy reliance on understanding the leadership and investment ‘DNA’ of its target businesses and Jones will lead this effort.
Jones was previously a Partner at Northill Capital where she worked alongside existing
Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through the Bitfinex digital token trading platform, has launched perpetual contracts for algorand, and ripple bitcoin.
Algorand (ALGOF0:USTF0) and ripple, bitcoin (XRPF0:BTCF0) offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in tether tokens (USDt) and bitcoin (BTC), respectively.
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of algorand and ripple, bitcoin to the growing portfolio of perpetual swaps available to trade on the exchange,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest in these products, particularly among funds and professional investors for hedging purposes and to manage risk.”
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Nippon Active Value, a Japan-focused activist fund strategy, has pushed through a management buyout of Sakai Ovex, a Fukui-based dye and textiles company, following an almost year-long engagement campaign, generating a 102.5 per cent return on the position.
Nippon Active Value, which is advised by Rising Sun Management, realised more than double its original investment in Sakai Ovex as a result of the buyout, which is the first and only example this year of a public company in Japan engaged by activists being taken private.
“The untapped value of the business was something we identified immediately and the valuation of
Benefit Street Partners (BSP), a credit-focused alternative asset management firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, and Malk Partners (Malk), an adviser to private markets on ESG and impact investing, have published a co-authored white paper detailing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) integration and considerations in the private credit investment process.
EJF Capital, which invests long-only and long/short in both equities and credit across the financial services spectrum, believes it is well-placed to navigate the evolving investment landscape, as inflation looms large over markets and the European Central Bank begins winding down its emergency bond-buying pandemic support programme.
DiligenceVault, a digital diligence platform that delivers data collection and information exchange solutions for asset owners, allocators and fund managers, has released its latest white paper entitled “2021 Manager Survey: How RFPs and DDQs Get Done.”
The paper presents the results of its recent survey of over 170 private equity, hedge and long-only managers fund managers exploring how marketing, investor relations and compliance professionals are optimising their staffing, processes and technologies to meet the due diligence needs of the allocator community.
The primary areas of focus for the survey are centred around Investor Requests and Team Sizes, Consultant vs Third-Party
PGIM has appointed Linda Gibson as CEO of its USD119 billion quantitative equity and multi-asset solutions specialist, QMA.
Gibson has been with QMA since July 2019 as chief business officer and will step into the CEO role on 15 October.
“Linda brings nearly thirty years of global leadership experience across multiple business functions and a strong understanding of the asset management industry,” says PGIM CEO David Hunt. “This is an exciting time for the firm.”
“I’m honoured to be leading this firm into the next phase of its development,” Gibson says. “Over the last few years, we have built on
Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven financial information technology provider, has launched the third generation of its platform. The technology now includes automated hourly alert queries, the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Navigator Tool, an expanded scope of system detection and more.
The Causality Link platform is an AI-powered system that collects millions of documents globally, in real-time, to identify explicit cause-and-effect statements relating indicators and events, aggregating the knowledge of thousands of authors into a single deductive system. Having processed and analysed more than 100 million texts in 27 languages spanning the past seven years of market activity, the platform provides
100 Women in Finance, the 20,000-member global industry association for hedge fund, alternatives and investment management professionals which aims to empower women within the global finance industry, has picked more than 300 female fund managers to participate in this year’s Global FundWomen Week, its annual flagship capital introduction event taking place from 20-24 September.
Launched in 2014, Global FundWomen Week – which takes place virtually for the second year, hosted on capital introduction technology platform iConnections – provides an opportunity for leading female fund managers to schedule one-on-one capital introduction meetings with institutional allocators.
More than 300 institutional allocators have
