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CAIS, an alternative investment platform, has added Michelle Browning as its Director of Business Development for the CAIS IQ learning platform.
Browning brings two decades of experience in financial services education to the role, having served in a variety of different roles ranging from advisor relations to sales leadership at Merrill Lynch, ATEL Capital Group, W P Carey Inc, AI Insight, and most recently Alternative Investment Exchange. Browning has also managed relationships across the entire wealth management ecosystem including advisors, broker dealers, and custodians.
Browning says: “I share CAIS’s commitment to transform advisor education. With CAIS IQ, we have an
French systematic long/short equity hedge fund Quantology Capital Management’s flagship fund suffered its third consecutive down month in July.
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has significantly expanded its low latency global backbone across the Asia Pacific region and now offers access to most Asian exchanges including major financial players such as Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Japan Exchange Group (JPX).
This expansion has been engineered to make use of the lowest latency commercially available network links in the region. It employs subsea cable systems and protected network links to ensure the highest network uptime. Most importantly, this network has been designed with sufficient capacity to ensure delivery of streaming market data globally, with the ability
With CTAs and trend-following managers maintaining their positive run this year after enduring a turbulent and unpredictable 2020, the Best CTA Hedge Fund category at this year’s Hedgeweek Americas Awards will highlight how such strategies are successfully positioning for trends as markets continue on their rollercoaster ride.
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is partnering with CarVal Investors (CarVal) to develop a new line of high yield (HY) and investment grade (IG) ESG products, as part of the CarVal Clean product line.
This will mark the second deployment of Insig AI’s and CarVal’s jointly developed ESG technology. This comes as the demand for data-led ESG investment strategies that provide transparent and evidence-based ESG scoring, continues to grow.
Steve Cracknell, Chief Executive of Insig AI, says: “This partnership and our ability to help CarVal accelerate the development of
Digital assets investment products saw a sixth consecutive week of outflows totalling USD22m, bringing the total six week run of outflows to USD115 million, according to the latest Weekly Digital Assets Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
Despite the continued negative sentiment, it comes at a time of low investor participation likely due to the seasonal effects as seen in other asset classes.
Bitcoin continues to be the main release valve for investors, with outflows totalling USD22 million last week.
Multi-asset investment products, a stalwart during this most recent negative sentiment, saw minor outflows totalling USD0.3 million, the first time since
Investors diverted an additional USD16.6 billion to hedge funds in June. The month’s inflows represented 0.4 per cent of assets and continued an inflow trend that saw USD36 billion in new assets in May, USD23.3 billion in April and USD19.1 billion in March, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
A USD16.8 billion June trading profit brought total hedge fund industry assets to more than USD4.32 trillion.
“As positive economic trends continued, investors saw opportunity in hedge funds in June,” says Ben Crawford, Head of Research at BarclayHedge. “Rallies in equity and
Suntera Global has appointed Jon Trigg as a Non-Executive Director to strengthen the firm’s governance capabilities.
Trigg, currently a Director at Altair Partners, a leading provider of independent directors and governance consultancy services, joins the Board of the funds operation in Jersey. He was previously Head of Global Fund Services at Moore Management and prior to that was in a senior private equity role at State Street in Jersey. He has experience working in a number of key funds jurisdictions including Cayman, the Isle of Man and Jersey, locations where the firm also has an office presence and provides its
Gordian Capital has launched the Japan Catalyst Fund sub-advised by Tokyo based, Japan Catalyst, Inc, a 100 per cent subsidiary of listed Monex Group (TSE 8698).
Japan Catalyst invests in listed Japanese equities, seeking to generate outsized investment returns by leading the transformation of Japanese companies using a constructive approach in engagement with the senior management of these firms. The launch of the Cayman domiciled fund follows the successful launch in April 2020 of a domestic fund, the Monex Activist Mother Fund, which has generated, since inception, a net return of +43.2 per cent (end July 2021) and an excess
Sanne acquisition: A bidding frenzy between hedge funds and private equity?
Sanne acquisition: A bidding frenzy between hedge funds and private equity?