Keeping ahead of regulatory change is a major responsibility for businesses especially as changes come along like the EMIR refit which is due to be enforced on the 29th of April in the EU and on the 30th 0f September 2024 in the UK, writes Colin Birchall, business development manager at Point Nine.
Wave Digital Assets (Wave) is an SEC registered digital asset investment manager that has managed over USD1 billion in assets, based in its native California, co-founded by Benjamin Tsai (pictured) and ably supported globally by Matteo Dante Perruccio, who is President International of the firm.
Jason Yablon, head of US real estate, and Rich Hill, head of real estate strategy and research at Cohen & Steers, write that there was a dramatic performance difference between listed and private real estate in 2022.
The inflation shocks of the second half of 2022, have, for the first time in a generation, prompted renewed enthusiasm among pension fund managers for fixed-income investments, according to Payden & Rygel, one of the largest privately-owned global investment managers.
Powered by a buy-side trading culture and a flexible range of solutions that can be tailored to all types and sizes of investment managers, Cowen has long been a leader in the now fast-expanding area of outsourced trading. In an interview with Institutional Asset Manager, Jack Seibald – managing director and global co-head of prime brokerage and outsourced trading at Cowen – outlines the investment bank’s strategy and its plans for continued growth into new markets, geographies, and asset classes.
Fund managers are returning to emerging market stocks as China emerges from its “draconian” zero Covid policy and inflation continues to put pressure on developed economies.
Last November’s Autumn Statement from the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, found Jeremy Hunt promising further regulatory changes to support the City of London and its position as an international financial centre, including changes to the MiFID II rules on equity research.
It was not the most auspicious start to the UK’s effort to be the first European country to launch satellites into space.
British company Kana Earth Ltd has launched an open ledger and investment platform for the UK’s carbon offsetting market, which, the company writes, is designed to address many of the major obstacles holding the sector back for fund managers investing in this sector.
Agecroft Partners’ 14th annual set of predictions for the biggest trends in the hedge fund industry for 2023 are based on dialogue with more than 2,000 institutional investors and also predicated upon an economic forecast of continued rising interest rates for at least the 1st half of 2023 and a moderate recession. The hedge fund industry is dynamic and both managers and investors can benefit from anticipating, and preparing for, the changes likely to occur, Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft’s founder and CEO says.
