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SEI has added 11 clients and nearly USD3.8 billion in new outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) and fiduciary management assets during the first half of 2021. SEI is a leading provider of outsourced investment management services and custom platforms to support in-sourced investment staffs.
“After nearly three decades, SEI continues to stand out in a crowded OCIO and fiduciary management marketplace due to our focus on delivering results, evolving our services and building a broad infrastructure,” says Paul Klauder, Executive Vice President of SEI and Global Head of SEI’s Institutional Group. “We leverage companywide capabilities and expertise to provide comprehensive
Digital asset investment products saw a second consecutive week of inflows totalling USD24 million last week, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows weekly report from CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw outflows for the eighth consecutive week with outflows totalling USD3.8 million. Fourteen out of the last 16 weeks have been outflows.
Cardano saw inflows totalling USD10.1m this week, its largest on record, bringing its market share to 0.15 per cent.
Altcoins (including ether) now represent 32 per cent of total digital asset AuM, close to the record 35 per cent set in mid-May this year and surpassing the 30 per
Emerging Markets (EM) hedge funds, led by funds investing in India, Russia, China, and the Middle East, extended strong gains through mid-year 2021 as EM hedge fund capital eclipsed another record, with performance again topping gains in EM regional equity markets and complemented by volatile cryptocurrencies.
The HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index has returned +8.1 per cent YTD 2021 through July, led by the HFRI Emerging Markets: India Index, which surged +33.3 per cent, while the HFRI Emerging Markets: Russia/Eastern Europe Index vaulted +16.3 per cent YTD, as reported today with the releases of the HFR Asian Hedge Fund Industry
Apex Fintech Solutions (Apex) and QUODD Financial Information Services (QUODD), a business unit of Financeware, a NewSpring Holdings platform company, have announced a strategic data partnership to offer access to real-time market data feeds to deliver pricing information and Vendor of Record services.
Apex’s network of clients, which include online brokerages, institutional traders, traditional wealth managers, digital banks and wealth-tech providers, and consumer brands, is expected to benefit from QUODD’s comprehensive offering of market display data and Vendor of Record designation.
With a focus on providing cloud-based RESTful APIs, this partnership is built for digital forward businesses that seek to
Bitfinex Derivatives has announced the launch of perpetual contracts for Sushi (SUSHIF0:USTF0) and Terra (LUNAF0:USTF0).
SUSHIF0:USTF0 and LUNAF0:USTF0 went live on 26 August at 16:00 PM CET. The contracts offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in tether tokens (USDt).
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of Sushi and Terra 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.”
Bitfinex Derivatives platform and products are only
TheStandard.io, a DeFi infrastructure project which aims to provide a bridge between traditional physical investments and digital assets, has appointed two high-profile crypto industry figures to its Advisory Board – Dr Jane Thomason and Hartej Sawhney.
TheStandard.io issues liquidity to asset holders without selling the assets and makes inflation beneficial for savers, as loans effectively become cheaper to pay back. Users of participating vaulting facilities simply lock up their digital and physical assets in a smart contract which acts as collateral against loans that users can generate without any intermediaries: It will be a private Gold Standard 2.0 and can fundamentally
The London Corporate practice of Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, has advised on all Cayman Islands Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) that have listed on Euronext Amsterdam so far this year.
The team, led by Jack Marriott Partner and head of the London Corporate practice along with Associate Christopher Oliver, continue to be selected to act as Cayman Islands counsel on SPAC IPOs as a result of the firm’s market-leading experience and comprehensive capabilities in this area.
In its most recent role, the London team acted as Cayman Islands counsel for Crystal Peak Acquisition on its
Allocators are blurring the boundaries between the hedge fund and private equity sides of their portfolios, as once strictly segmented alternatives buckets begin to blend, according to investment firm Cambridge Associates.
Dan Aylott, Managing Director and Head of European Private Investments, at Cambridge Associates says that the distinction between hedge funds and private equity has become an increasingly “grey area”.
“Those parts of a portfolio are less distinct today than they were. Within Cambridge Associates, hedge funds don’t compete against private equity for the best ideas or vice versa, there’s a lot more overlap,” he commented.
The palette mixing of
Liti Capital’s wLITI token, a wrapped version of the Swiss company’s LITI equity token, has been listed on the Bitcoin.com. wLITI is trading with BTC and USDT pairs.
Liti Capital, a Swiss-based blockchain private equity fund specialising in raising capital for legal cases, is making waves in traditional investing by bringing litigation financing to the masses, an investment practice traditionally monopolised by hedge fund heavyweights and elite investors.
Danish Chaudhry, CEO of Bitcoin.com Exchange, says: “The Liti Capital team are providing an equity token which is the first of its kind, focused around easy-to-access private equity investment opportunities for basically
SRAX has collaborated with S3 Partners, a financial data and analytics provider, to incorporate short interest and securities finance data into the Sequire platform.
Sequire is an investor intelligence and communications platform where companies can track their investors’ behaviours and trends through data, and use those insights to engage current and potential shareholders, or any desired audience, across multiple channels. While Sequire’s proprietary data sets provide issuers insights into who is buying their stock, at what volume, and more, the addition of short interest data enhances the value for Sequire customers.
The institutional investment community has long used short interest
