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Q&A with Dr Kyle Scerri (pictured), Regulated Industries and Compliance Advisor at CSB Group, a member of FinanceMalta…
How will the EU regulatory framework for digital assets impact Malta’s offer in the space?
The introduction of a proposed level playing field across the EU through the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (“MiCA”), will undoubtedly test Malta’s competitive advantage among promoters and service providers seeking a regulated forum for the issuance and establishment of digital assets. This, however, is a challenge which should be met with optimism rather than scepticism. Malta’s regulatory bodies and industry professionals have gained industry know-how by actively being
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Amsterdam-headquartered Privium Fund Management and London-based software provider Swarm Technology have paired up to launch Swarm XVI, a novel managed futures programme whose trading technology and quantitative investment processes mimic behaviours seen in insect colonies.
FUND PERFORMANCE
With the shape of the post-pandemic recovery still in flux, London-based quantitative hedge fund firm Aspect Capital believes its computer-driven global macro strategy is well positioned to capitalise on both short-term market dislocations and medium-term trends this year, as well as benefitting from relative value opportunities amid the varying recovery speeds.
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2020 has been a reminder that unforeseen circumstances can cause even the most stable of investment environments to switch quickly into being unpredictable and volatile.
SHORT-SELLING
The recent stock market “exuberance” sparked off by breakthroughs in Covid-19 vaccine trials may give way to disappointment next year, says Argonaut Capital CEO and CIO Barry Norris, who continues to build short positions in a number of drug companies, including AstraZeneca, amid continued uncertainty over efficacy and dosage in its trial process.
MANAGER INSIGHTS
Since launching in early 2018, Pembroke Emerging Markets – a London-based global long/short equity hedge fund led by former Goldman Sachs trader Sanjiv Bhatia – has capitalised on demographic shifts in emerging economies with a fundamental, bottom-up stock-picking style which uses convexity plays to boost alpha generation.
WEBINAR
This webinar explores the extent to which convergence between hedge and private equity is happening and reveal how managers are thinking about their own diversification plans in the post-Covid marketplace. REPLAY NOW
CHARITY EVENT
Tom Capasse, Principal & Co-Founder at Waterfall Asset Management, T J Durkin, Managing Director & Co-Head Structured Credit Platform at Angelo Gordon, and Dan Morehead, Founder, CEO & Co-CIO Pantera Capital, are to feature in the next Legends4Legends event which is again aiming to raise money for the Alternatives4Children (A4C) charity.
FUND FLOWS
Investor withdrawals from hedge funds are stacking up, with asset flows set to finish the year in negative territory “barring a holiday-season miracle”, eVestment warned on Thursday.
MANAGER INSIGHTS
Seizing on the assortment of opportunities arising from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has unveiled a new credit-focused strategy which taps into stressed and distressed situations within mid-market US and European corporate credit, collateralised loan obligations and segments of the European commercial real estate sector.
The fund, named UBP Distressed Opportunity, is led by Kier Boley (pictured), CIO and co-head of UBP’s Alternative Investment Solutions group based in London and Geneva, which constructs portfolios and investment vehicles in hedge fund strategies and alternative assets for a range of institutional and private investors.
The new strategy, which had
