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The US’s semi-transparent ETF structure arrived in the sector early last year, with a bit of a fanfare, as American Century successfully launched two ETFs using Precidian Investments’ ActiveShares methodology.
RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Michael Hanus, CFA as the firm’s new Senior Managing Director of Distribution.
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Diginex Limited (EQOS), a digital assets financial services company, has announced record total volumes of over USD1 billion in April month to date, with average daily volumes during the period increasing over three times compared to average daily volumes in the prior month.
Managed futures funds turned in a second consecutive monthly gain in March returning 0.32 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
For the year to date, CTAs returned 2.29 per cent through March.
“A strengthening US dollar and a continuing uptrend in equity markets helped fuel CTA gains in March. The USD1.9 trillion Covid Relief bill fed deficit concerns and ignited a rise in US interest rates which, in turn, sparked appeal in USD carry trades against negative yielding currencies,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge.
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A new deep-dive study by SEI examines how the fund management industry’s business chains could become increasingly atomised into disparate networks of hubs and suppliers thanks to advances in tech, potentially mirroring Uber’s sweeping disruption of the cab-hire industry.
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has announced the second year of its advance proxy voting disclosure initiative, whereby the firm will disclose and publicly explain its voting rationale on select issues.
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Laurium Capital (Pty) Ltd (Laurium), one of South Africa’s leading hedge fund and long only fund managers has launched its first Irish-domiciled UCITS fund, the Laurium Africa USD Bond Fund, on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform.
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Tether tokens (USDt) are now live on Hermez Network, a decentralised zero-knowledge rollup (zk-rollup).
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will expand its range of products for the Dry Bulk Freight market with the launch of Handysize 7TC Freight Futures which will be available for Trade Registration from today (19 April).
Following a period of strong growth in the charter market, the new Handysize contract will help customers manage their exposure by enabling them to clear Forward Freight Agreement (FFA) trades for the 38,000-dwt Handysize Time Charter basket of routes.
The launch of the new contract follows an 18-month period of sustained growth for EEX’s Dry Bulk Freight business with 2020 marking its most successful
Digital Asset Research (DAR), a leading provider of crypto asset data and research, has released its April 2021 Crypto Exchange Vetting and Asset Vetting results.
Over 400 exchanges were evaluated during the latest vetting process to identify 19 Vetted Exchanges. Two exchanges, Bitso and GMO Coin Co, were added to the Vetted Exchanges list, while Bitfinex was removed from enhanced review status and VCC Exchange was placed on enhanced review. Exchanges that remain on the Vetted Exchanges list include Binance.US; bitbank; bitFlyer; Bitstamp; Bittrex; Coinbase Pro; Coincheck; Gemini; itBit; Kraken; Liquid; LMAX Digital; Luno; OKCoin; and Zaif.
Twelve exchanges are
