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Financial market infrastructure specialist CLS’s post-trade monitoring and reporting tool, CLSTradeMonitor, has seen solid growth in adoption among asset management clients globally.
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By Emer McGuckin, Citco (Canada) Inc – This Hedgeweek report looks at how manager-investor relations are evolving in the hedge fund world, and the role that service providers and vendors can play in facilitating innovative tools and techniques to aid capital raising, due diligence and investor reporting.
What has the pandemic changed most in terms of the manager-investor relationship?
Investors continued to demand higher levels of transparency from managers throughout 2020 on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles, processes and procedures.
The increased presence of ESG factors in the investor relations process has been steadily gathering pace since 2019, but
By A Paris – The way investment professionals work has changed. Hybrid business practices are coming into play, following successful vaccine roll-outs in many parts of the world, and the financial industry is adjusting to this new reality. The year has seen digitalisation accelerating across the hedge fund world, with investor relations (IR) and capital raising teams becoming accustomed to handling their business remotely. Raising capital through virtual media has been another challenge managers have had to wrangle with.
Clear and concise communication is the bedrock of successful investor relations and buoyed successful managers through 2020, especially in the early months when the
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has made a significant minority investment in global financial services provider Apex Group Ltd (Apex).
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Cryptocurrencies and the digital asset ecosystem continue to move towards a mainstream institutional marketplace, with the number of institutional participants either already allocating or planning to allocate to the nascent asset class imminently.
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has established connectivity with Lucera and Neptune Networks (Neptune) to deliver to mutual clients access to high-quality pre-trade data and liquidity signals.
Lucera’s LumeALFA Analytics is a new lighter version of its LumeALFA service, a leading fixed income data aggregation and market surveillance tool that provides its clients with a consolidated view of client -selected pre-trade liquidity data from major electronic venues and dealer inventory feeds, as well as connectivity to client-selected execution venues, including single dealer executions. LumeALFA Analytics is designed to provide a real-time view of the entire
Getting technology infrastructure correct on day one – and avoiding cutting corners despite budgetary pressures – is vital for start-up and emerging hedge funds, and staff with coding and tech backgrounds offer a “big step forward” during the initial launch period.
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has launched an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and specialised depositary services in Ireland.
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Horizon Software, a provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, is partnering with Terranoha, a unique AI platform, to integrate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions into its financial system in order to digitise and automate communication to clients and accelerate digital transformation.
Bitwise Asset Management, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency index fund managers, has raised USD70 million in a Series B funding round led by Elad Gil and Electric Capital. New backers include Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC, alongside individual investors Henry Kravis, and Stanley Druckenmiller.
