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NEWSLETTER | 22 Jun 2020

A contrarian perspective: Q&A with Edouard Laurent-Bellue, partner and head of fund solutions at LFIS

With long-term volatility likely to remain at elevated levels, the LFIS Vision UCITS – Perspective Fund is primed to capitalise on opportunities in rangy equity markets.

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2020 measured 4.24 per cent, up from 4.00 per cent in May.

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

The LoCorr Macro Strategies Fund (LFMAX, LFMCX, LFMIX), has surpassed the milestone of USD1 billion in net assets.

London sees increase in crypto trading

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

Major growth in the trading of cryptocurrency assets, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, is driving demand for low latency access to the Amazon Cloud (AWS) in London from sophisticated institutional investors, operating in the derivatives market in particular.

TMTG lists on OKEx

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

OKEx, a bitcoin and ethereum futures exchange, has listed The Midas Touch Gold (TMTG), the ecosystem token of Digital Gold Exchange (DGE), with trading pairs against USDT and BTC.

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

Tether, the blockchain-enabled platform behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, and Compound, a decentralised lending market, are spearheading growth in the nascent decentralised finance (DeFi) space as USDt volume on the platform has surged above USD100 million.

Mon | 22 Jun 2020, 11:40

A current non-executive director of Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust, JP Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust and Ruffer Investment Company, has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of Alpha FMC, a consultancy to the asset and wealth management industry. Jill May will take up the role on 1 July 2020.