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Davis Polk has appointed Sheila Adams, Matthew Bacal, Ning Chiu, Ethan Goldman, David Hahn, Eric McLaughlin, Adam Shpeen, Travis Triano and Steve Wang as partners of the Firm, effective July 1, 2021.
Shpeen joins the firm’s Restructuring practice in New York.
He has significant experience representing debtors, creditors, banks, hedge funds and other strategic financial actors in connection with complex chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, including prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, liability management transactions, debt exchanges, credit transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, exit financings and section 363 sales.
Equiti, a fintech firm and provider of online trading technology and multi-asset financial products, has chosen FlexTrade Systems’ MaxxTrader Foreign Exchange Platform Solution for its Prime of Prime Services Offering.
Sell-side FX broker dealers are now more than ever looking for single source FX trading solution that allow them to stay ahead of the game in the fast moving and competitive FX markets. MaxxTrader will enable Equiti to provide their prime of prime customers with seamless global FX liquidity aggregation, trade execution management, and institutional trading capabilities.
Manish Kedia, Managing Director at FlexTrade, says: “We are delighted that Equiti has
Global alternative investment management firm Capstone Investment Advisors (Capstone) has appointed Tom Leake to lead its Solutions Platform.
A new survey of institutional investors and wealth managers from the US, UK, France, Germany, and the UAE who currently have exposure to cryptocurrencies and digital assets, reveals that 82 per cent expect to increase their exposure between now and 2023.
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Leading hedge fund manager North Asset Management (North) has selected SIGTech, a provider of next-gen quant technology for global investors, to support the firm’s expansion strategy into systematic investing.
North currently manages seven funds that focus on foreign exchange, macro and fixed income. The firm has identified systematic as a new area for growth.
North Asset Management is an independent alternative asset manager based in London. Founded in July 2002, the firm has a highly experienced, award-winning team with a strong risk management culture, continuously focusing on risk-adjusted returns, and commitment to transparent and detailed reporting to investors.
LGT Capital Partners has successfully launched two fixed income funds dedicated to sovereign strategies in emerging and especially in frontier markets.
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GoDoFX, a brokerage in the UAE, has selected Integral MarginFX to support the growth of its FX and CFD business.
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Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy hedge fund vehicle is flat for the first half of the year, after June brought trend reversals in currencies, bonds and gold, and sharp rotations across equities, leading to losses in several of its underlying funds.
Professional investors are forecasting a surge in commodities trading over the next 12 months as the so-called commodity supercycle takes effect, new global research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross shows.
Its research among professional investors around the world responsible for around $380 billion in assets under management, found 84 per cent expect the level of trading in commodities to increase in the year ahead with 29 per cent forecasting a substantial increase.
A key driver is that 81 per cent of them believe markets are entering a commodity supercycle where commodities trade above their long-term price trend for decades-long periods,
The latest edition of the AIMA Hedge Fund Confidence Index (HFCI) – a global index that measures confidence hedge funds have in the economic prospects over the next 12 months – reveals that the average measure of confidence has risen to +19.5, up from an average of +18.4 in Q1.
Based on a survey of more than 300 hedge funds accounting for approximately USD1 trillion in assets, respondents are asked to choose from a range of -50 to +50, where +50 indicates the highest possible level of economic confidence over the next 12 months.
More than 90 per cent of funds
