Digital investor communication platform, Proxymity, has announced that State Street has deployed its digital proxy voting service, Vote Connect Total, in the UK and Ireland in time for the 2023 proxy season.
Professional investors are increasingly confident on investment opportunities in the crypto and digital asset sector over the short and long term despite recent market weakness, according to new research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), Europe’s regulated and award-winning digital assets hedge fund founded by Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan alumni.
2022 was “awful” for European equities, admits Peter Kraus, portfolio manager of Berenberg’s European Small Cap fund and the European Micro Cap fund, but he says there is no reason to overlook them this year.
Truss Edge comments on T+1 rules from the SEC
New analysis released by WTW has revealed that an investment team with a greater level of diversity leads to better investment outcomes. In the company’s new paper, Diversity in the asset management industry: on the right track but at the wrong pace, data shows that investment teams in the top quartile of gender diversity outperform the bottom quartile by 45bps per annum in terms of net excess returns.
Kam Patel, CEO of Custodiex, writes the 2023 will be the year of custody.
David Vafai, CEO, and co-founder, of bfinance is looking forward to the ‘galvanising catalyst’ for the team that its latest MBO from Baird Capital represents, which will see around half the employees with equity participation in the firm.
In March last year, US investment bank Cowen became one of the first Wall Street firms to offer trade execution in digital assets for institutional investors with the launch of Cowen Digital. The firm outlines its strategy for growth after an eventful first year in the digital assets space, and its expectations for the emergence of a more robust institutional marketplace.
Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, has announced its appointment as the primary international broker for Sinopac Securities.
After more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, last year global pension assets recorded their largest fall since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, according to the Thinking Ahead Institute’s latest Global Pension Assets Study. It shows that global pension assets now stand at USD47.9 trillion, a fall of 16.7 per cent in a year driven largely by a correction in both fixed income and equity markets.
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