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London-based crypto hedge fund Argentium Digital Asset Management has named Jerome Dupuy as its new chief investment officer.
Dupuy, an industry veteran with more than 30 years’ expertise, specialising in relative value trading, was already a senior adviser at Argentium with a focus on volatility.
He began his career at Société Générale before moving to JPMorgan to run equity derivatives for the Asia-Pacific region. He then joined Lehman Brothers, running volatility trading across Asia Pacific for the firm in Tokyo. Later, he developed the global relative value business at BIP in Paris, an in-house hedge fund later taken over
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has entered into a cooperation with Pexapark, a specialist for renewable energy sales and risk management.
Both companies are aiming to unite their unique capabilities to enhance pricing visibility and market-based risk management solutions for renewable energy projects in Europe. This collaboration will expand trading solutions for hedging renewable energy, ultimately increasing sustainability and growth in the power markets.
The cooperation focuses on promoting market-based instruments to hedge price risk in renewable energy assets, for example by means of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), and to enable the transition from support mechanisms to subsidy free power
Joint Bookrunner and sole Green Coordinator Natixis has successfully placed the landmark Lion III Re DAC Notes Green Catastrophe Bond. The EUR200 million bond was well-received with a final pricing of 350 bps and was oversubscribed. The transaction is sponsored by Assicurazioni Generali SpA (Generali) and represents its first-ever green catastrophe bond.
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MJ Hudson, the specialist service provider to the asset management industry, has acquired risk management and reporting automation specialist, Clarus Risk (Clarus).
This acquisition follows the December 2020 acquisition of fund performance analytics firm, PERACS. The acquisition further extends the data & analytics services provided by MJ Hudson to its clients.
Clarus operates chiefly in the RegTech area of the FinTech sector and was named to the RegTech100 in September of last year. The current AUM of products on its platform totals cGBP10 billion.
Founded in 2011, the team is led by Max Hilton, a quant finance expert and former
ThirdYear Capital’s ART Global Macro Fund, a macro hedge fund strategy which fuses quantitative and fundamental investing, has doubled its assets less than a year after launching, with the firm looking to capitalise on prevailing high valuations and interest rate and inflation risks.
The absolute return macro fund, which was launched by ThirdYear alongside distribution partner Agathon Capital in August 2020, has seen assets rise to EUR47 million (USD56.2 million) within its first 10 months.
The strategy uses short-term economic forecasts to identify historical cause-and-effect chains in real time, and anticipate their impact on financial markets.
Specifically, it trades a range of liquid and exchange-traded
ESG Investing, a multi-media platform devoted to ESG and sustainable investing, has launched Greenlight, an accreditation service for ESG funds and products.
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Accountancy firm Moore Cayman, which specialises in providing audit services to investment funds and the digital asset industry including nearly 200 cryptocurrency-focused funds, has launched the first verification service for its audit clients through a public blockchain.
The service allows recipients of audited financial statements to independently verify they are valid original copies signed by Moore Cayman via a decentralised blockchain application.
Sixteen of Moore Cayman’s clients have already signed up for the complementary service, including BR CAPITAL, Gluwa Capital, Lantern Ventures, Lima Capital LLC, Nalu Capital, Satoshi Holdings and Warp Capital which manage digital asset funds.
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Crypto Asset Rating Inc (CAR), a US-based Fintech company, has launched the Advanced Rating Platform for rating crypto assets.
CAR has constructed a proprietary advanced rating system to bring transparency, auditability, and astringent rating governance structure. The comprehensive rating framework is comprised of 125 rating parameters which are grouped into 15 categories.
The advanced rating platform will help investors understand the long-term viability, credibility, and risk associated with crypto assets and objective analysis of the company issuing the asset.
“We are thrilled and delighted with our Advance Rating Platform going live,” says Pramod Attarde, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
AIR Asset Management, a hedge fund management firm focused on longevity-linked investments such as life settlements and annuities, has announced that the AIR US Life Fund II strategy has exceeded USD160 million in assets under management.
The strong increase in the strategy’s assets has helped to fuel AIRAM’s rapid pace of growth as a firm. Despite the challenging environment over the last 18 months, AIRAM has been able to increase assets under management to over USD430 million. The firm believes this is a testament to the value and stability they provide for their investors.
“With high stock market valuations and
Hedge funds are on track to comfortably outperform their 2020 showing this year, with strong strategy returns and continued capital inflows boosting industry coffers to almost USD3.6 trillion in the run-up to 2021’s midway point.
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