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Digital asset investment firm, Osprey Funds, has launched a new institutional research offering, dedicated to releasing comprehensive crypto analysis to drive better investment decisions.
Created especially for institutional and portfolio-oriented investors, Osprey’s research will initially focus on Layer 1 tokens, the primary backbone for the creation of the new internet. Research will release extensive, data-driven reports outlining investment cases for specific coins and will review competitive advantages as well as base case valuations and price targets for bull and bear market conditions. The reports will also include portfolio manager summaries and protocol primers.
In line with the launch, Osprey is
AltsAxis has launched AXIS, a mobile-first solution facilitating connections between alternative asset managers and family offices, pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, RIAs and wealth managers.
Horizon Software, a specialist in market making and algo trading technology, has expanded its trading platform to include low-touch direct market access (DMA) order routing.
Horizon is enhancing its capabilities to enable handling of high-volume order flows from clients to the market. This represents a continuation of the effort to improve the handling of client order flow for agency trading, on a single platform for both cash and derivatives.
The DMA router integrates with Horizon’s existing connectivity offering, to efficiently route High-Touch order flow to Horizon’s order management system (OMS), and low-touch order to the breadth of direct market
Qontigo, a provider of risk, analytics, and index solutions, has enhanced its Axioma Credit Spread Factor Risk Model (Credit Factor Model) with the addition of credit default swaps (CDS) and increased factor coverage.
The model results in better risk forecasting for asset managers, asset owners and hedge funds with portfolio exposure in the high yield and investment grade space.
The Axioma Credit Spread Factor Risk Model can be accessed within Qontigo’s award-winning cloud-native enterprise portfolio risk management system, Axioma Risk, and has also been designed to work with portfolio optimisation tools. For example, by uploading risk model and exposure files
Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus), an independent provider of full-service tech enabled fund administration, accounting, middle office and investor solutions to traditional and alternative fund managers, has launched an enhanced contingent NAV (net asset value) solution utilising FundGuard’s platform.
The FundGuard solution allows Ultimus to offer clients additional services to calculate real time contingent NAVs for their registered funds. Clients can also utilise the solution for shadow NAV monitoring as an oversight to the normal daily NAV calculation process.
Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has achieved System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 compliance.
This certification reflects Drawbridge’s commitment to safeguarding critical client data while helping customers bolster their cyber defences in today’s evolving threat landscape.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) designed SOC 2 compliance assessments to ensure businesses display adequate data practices that safeguard data with proper security processes. The Type 1 certification reports on the controls placed into operation at a specific point in time and creates a solid path for working towards a
The Maples Group has been selected to support the Faros VCC, a diversified long/short equity strategy utilising an umbrella Variable Capital Company (VCC) structure with three sub-funds.
The Faros investment approach is driven by state-of-the-art dynamic artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques for stock selection and aims to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through a market neutral approach to portfolio construction.
Faros has been an early adopter of the VCC structure as a collective investment vehicle providing access to the Faros strategies, which closely follow the approach operated in a series of exclusive, separately managed, individual account structures for high-profile institutional investors.
DataBP, the data licensing and subscription management platform, has partnered with Deutsche Börse Group to implement a digital data licensing and management platform to streamline business operations and optimise the customer experience for its Market Data + Services (MD+S) business.
Deutsche Börse Group supports a global client base with market data and services through a broad and diverse network of distribution channels. The diversity and scale of Deutsche Börse’s data business is amongst the largest of global exchanges, requiring significant resources to support and maintain. DataBP’s platform provides Deutsche Börse with the opportunity to take systems and processes to the
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has expanded into crypto options trading, adding to its existing product line of perpetual futures contracts and expiration futures contracts.
Bybit’s new options trading offering is based on user feedback, representing an important step in developing another powerful tool for Bybit users. Upon launch, Bybit users will be able to trade USDC options and perpetuals through portfolio margin, which adopts a risk based model for experienced traders, including market makers and institutional clients, to increase fund utilisation based on the underlying price and volatility.
The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) and Qontigo, its exclusive distribution partner, have announced that leading asset manager.
BlackRock has subscribed to the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) dataset.
The information packages which is distributed exclusively by Qontigo, analyses corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). BlackRock will use the data to advise clients on ESG portfolio construction, research, reporting, product creation and evolution.
The SDI AOP dataset is backed by some of the world’s largest asset owners. In 2020, APG, AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and PGGM
