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Tim Clipstone has joined the Guernsey office of Ogier as a partner in its top-tier investment fund team.
Clipstone (pictured), has a strong reputation for his work with offshore investment funds, specialising in investment fund structuring, equity fundraising, mergers and acquisitions and group reorganisations.
Ogier’s Guernsey team were recently Guernsey legal counsel to the launch of a GBP202 million music IPO fund, and are ranked in the top tier by IFLR.
This year Ogier has been named Offshore Law Firm of the Year by Chambers Europe and International Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Week
OpenFin, an operating system for the financial industry, has appointed Stephen Wood as Global Head of Enterprise Deployment.
Wood joins from Deutsche Bank, where he served as Head of Market Data, Risk and Compliance, from 2012-2015, and Global Head of Market Data Services, from 2015-2018, with responsibilities including managing the deployment of vendor products. Wood brings his unique insights to OpenFin, where he will be responsible for driving the firm’s enterprise deployment strategy. He will be working closely with the growing number of banks, asset managers and hedge funds now running their financial desktop applications on OpenFin.
In addition,
A new survey of institutional asset managers, consultants and investors confirms compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) is on the rise, with 84 per cent of asset managers responding saying their firms are GIPS compliant.
This is up from 72 per cent who claimed compliance in 2014, the last time institutional investment analytics firm eVestment and consulting firm ACA Compliance Group conducted this survey of eVestment users.
This increase is driven by investor and consultant activity, as 75 per cent of investors and consultants responding to the 2018 survey said they exclude managers from searches some or
By John D’Agostino (pictured), Global Leader, Investor Engagement at DMS Governance, & Paras Malde, Director at DMS Governance.
Crypto 101
Distributed ledger (DL) technology is the foundation on which crypto-currencies (or crypto-assets, depending on where one falls in the debate) lie. Bitcoin, the most well-known use case for DL, is an attempt to solve the problem of storing and transferring value in a digital, decentralised system.
Bitcoin is a means to compensate people/servers for the effort required to “mine” (confirm) blocks of transactions and add them to the global ledger/chain (block+chain). Bitcoins are gifted to these miners upon completion of
Drawing on decades of experience, Matthew Shaw (pictured) and Philipp Kallerhoff are founders of Protos Asset Management, a Swiss based cryptocurrency asset manager that brings the investing concepts of value, momentum and volatility to the crypto world in the form of a fully traditionally regulated Cayman Island based fund. Protos was set up in 2017 as the pair came out of a crypto investment business in Canada.
“Protos is an asset manager specialising in cryptocurrencies, using some of the traditional tools of hedge funds to manage risk using classic premia strategies,” says Shaw.
The first closed-end fund was launched in mid-December
Dominic Lawton-Smith (pictured) is head of Private Client & Private Equity at Cayman-based boutique fund administrator, trustee and corporate services firm JP Integra Group. The company is 11 years old, has Cayman trust, fund administration and corporate services licences, enabling it to work with private, institutional and sovereign clients and has over USD6 billion under administration.
It specialises in the provision of administrative and fiduciary services to clients with international investment, offering and estate planning projects in the long or short term. JP Integra leverages its offering and its legal and accounting skills with Cayman’s position as a key global
A brand-new social impact offset token has come out of a 25-year history of creating sustainable solutions for corporations, explains Todd Lemons (pictured), chairman of the Veridium Foundation.
Veridium is a collaborative initiative between a coalition of industry leaders including IBM, Stellar, Brian Kelly Capital Management, EnVision Corporation, and IDEAcarbon (a division of IDEAglobal),
Some 10 years ago, InfiniteEARTH (also part of the EnVision group of companies), authored the first forest carbon accounting methodology, now known as REDD+ (reducing emissions from avoided deforestation and degradation), which is now embodied in the Paris agreement.
The company developed the first internationally recognised
Q&A with Manuel Anguita (pictured), co-founder of top-performing blockchain- and crypto-focused hedge fund Silver 8…
How did Silver 8 come to invest in crypto assets in 2015?
Much of the credit must go to my business partner and Silver 8’s other co-founder, Jose Suarez, who is responsible for the vision. Jose has been a serial entrepreneur and tech investor for the best part of 25 years, experiencing first-hand the development of the internet. I have a very different background as I’m a financial markets professional, mainly in the hedge fund arena. We met 20 years ago when I was starting
It’s a true sign of the times. The two top performing hedge funds of 2018, according to data providers Preqin, are both focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
Silver 8 Capital – read about them further on in this report – managed the highest returning hedge fund last year focusing on financial technology, with a particular focus on blockchain and the crypto world, returning 770.74 per cent, while Global Advisors’ Bitcoin Investment Fund came in second with returns of 330.08, according to Preqin.
Further evidence comes from HFR, whose Cryptocurrency Index was up 155.70 per cent for the last 12 months to
Edinburgh-based private equity fund, Inverleith, has made a seven figure, multi-million GBP investment in Braham and Murray Good Hemp, a plant based food and drink brand which manufactures products from hemp seed.
Inverleith invests in consumer brand companies within the health & wellbeing, lifestyle and heritage sectors. It specialises in internationalising and commercialising brands, helping them to realise their full potential. Its Partners are ex-Chairman and Chief Executive of Noble Group, Ben Thomson and ex-Chief Executive of The Glenmorangie Company and Partner L Capital (LVMH), Paul Skipworth.
Other portfolio investments through its Fund and high net worth investor club
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