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Tesseract, an institutional digital asset lending company in Europe and emerging markets which provides digital asset lending solutions to institutional clients, such as hedge funds and retail trading platforms, globally, has raised USD25 million in its Series A funding round.
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Financial market infrastructure specialist CLS’s post-trade monitoring and reporting tool, CLSTradeMonitor, has seen solid growth in adoption among asset management clients globally.
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AcadiaSoft Inc, an industry provider of integrated risk management services for the derivatives community, has re-branded as Acadia.
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Sinclair Capital (Sinclair Capital), a London-based alternative investment company established in May 2017 that is focused on discovering and researching liquid, uncorrelated, and asymmetric M&A-driven opportunities with a bias for Europe and small-mid caps, has appointed Charlotte Hervouet as Partner and Head of Business Development and IR.
With over 19 years of experience working in business development and investor relations in the financial services sector, in her new role, Hervouet will be responsible for leading all asset raising activities for Sinclair Capital as well as providing client service and facilitating in all due diligence requirements. She will work alongside the
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched the BNP Paribas Multi-Asset Thematic, an innovative fund investing across BNPP AM’s range of thematic strategies.
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Wheelhouse Advisors, a provider of prudential management, regulatory reporting and accounting, tax and HR support to the financial services sector, has partnered with ThinCats, a funding specialist for the mid-market.
Franklin Templeton is growing its liquid alternative fund range with the launch of two new strategies – the Franklin K2 Cat Bond UCITS Fund and Franklin K2 Athena Risk Premia UCITS Fund – to capitalise on “growing demand” for liquid UCITs structures.
The Franklin K2 Cat Bond fund will trade a portfolio of natural catastrophe bonds with a view to generating attractive risk-adjusted returns and compelling current income with limited correlation to other asset classes.
The fund is managed by Jonathan Malawer (pictured), K2 Advisors’ New York-based managing director, head of insurance-linked securities, commodities and environmental Strategies. Malawer, who joined
By Emer McGuckin, Citco (Canada) Inc – This Hedgeweek report looks at how manager-investor relations are evolving in the hedge fund world, and the role that service providers and vendors can play in facilitating innovative tools and techniques to aid capital raising, due diligence and investor reporting.
What has the pandemic changed most in terms of the manager-investor relationship?
Investors continued to demand higher levels of transparency from managers throughout 2020 on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles, processes and procedures.
The increased presence of ESG factors in the investor relations process has been steadily gathering pace since 2019, but
By A Paris – The way investment professionals work has changed. Hybrid business practices are coming into play, following successful vaccine roll-outs in many parts of the world, and the financial industry is adjusting to this new reality. The year has seen digitalisation accelerating across the hedge fund world, with investor relations (IR) and capital raising teams becoming accustomed to handling their business remotely. Raising capital through virtual media has been another challenge managers have had to wrangle with.
Clear and concise communication is the bedrock of successful investor relations and buoyed successful managers through 2020, especially in the early months when the
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has made a significant minority investment in global financial services provider Apex Group Ltd (Apex).
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