(Bloomberg) Michael Alexander, who until recently was Asia chief executive officer at Jefferies, will head Block.one’s venture capital arm, with a focus on developing projects that rely on the firm’s EOSIO blockchain software… He will be based in Hong Kong […]

(City A.M) Hedge fund tycoon and City veteran Alan Howard has backed a series B investment round into London macro analytics startup Quant Insight (QI). Additional backing came from Stone Milliner Asset Management’s Jens-Peter Stein, in a round understood by […]

(Citywire) Asian stock markets were little changed on Thursday in morning trade as investors remained nervous amid a looming deadline for Washington’s proposed tariffs on Chinese imports. Japan’s Nikkei 225 hovered around the flat line in the morning, inching higher […]

(Hedgeweek) The total automation rate of processed orders of cross-border funds reached 88 per cent in the last quarter of 2017, which represents an increase of 1.3 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the fourth quarter of 2016. To read this […]

(Reuters) Renowned global hedge fund managers Bridgewater Associates LP and Winton Group Ltd have had registrations to launch products in China accepted at a time of turbulence in capital markets, reflecting a change in the government’s stance toward such foreign […]

(Bloomberg) John Foo, who has managed long-only and hedge funds in Asia for 20 years, has sold out of Chinese stocks for the first time in his career as a money manager. Foo’s Kingsmead Asset Management ended all bullish and […]

(Bloomberg) U.K. lawmaker George Foulkes said hedge funds use of private polling data to bet on the outcome of the 2016 British referendum was a “scandal,” and called for an investigation into practices revealed in a Bloomberg report. If “any […]

(Bloomberg) The escalating trade dispute between China and the U.S. prompted hedge fund manager Pinpoint Asset Management to take money off the table earlier this year. It’s now game-planning for a potential agreement between the world’s top two economies. “The […]

(Times of India) These days, several fund houses frown at the concept of a star fund manager or even the scenario of a stock being associated with him or her. Fund managers themselves prefer to lie low to avoid antagonising […]

(Citywire) MassMutual fund of funds manager, Stephen Brunette, has been replaced on his respective funds…Brunette had been the manager of the MML Allocation Series, which is a set of six fund of funds… To read this article:

(Harvest) China has the longest-running national program to build up its EV volumes, including financial incentives to manufacture and buy the vehicles, as well as build out the country’s EV-charging station infrastructure. However, major world economies, including France, India, the […]

(Reuters) For a year, billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has watched quietly from afar as Nestle SA tries to energise its business. But his patience has worn thin and he has been telling associates and his own investors that […]