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This investment manager is looking to bridge the racial wealth gap

CNBC: Investing

Economic freedom has been more elusive for Black people. Veteran portfolio manager Jim Casselberry is trying to do something about that.

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Online wholesaler Boxed acquired after filing for bankruptcy

TechCrunch: M&A

announced this morning its acquisition of Boxed.com and “other intellectual property portfolios and affiliates” in an all-cash transaction. But it’s clear Boxed struggled to make the economics of online grocery work, and it wasn’t alone. based regional distributor MSG Distributors, Inc.

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Top 3 Trends for the Institutional Investing & Pension Funds Space in 2018

Accenture Capital Markets

The year ahead will be busy for institutional investors and pension funds as they navigate political turbulence and speculations around when the economic cycle will shift. The industry is rethinking how to manage the generation, storage, transformation, usage and retirement of both structured and unstructured data. Blockchain.

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Keeping an aircraft carrier nimble in times of turbulence

The TRADE

Chicago-based head of US trading at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) Ryan Raymond has seen enough economic turmoil during his career to know what to do when markets turn volatile. Chicago is a very small community and so I knew most of the portfolio managers and management at LGIM America before I came over.

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BofE launches stress testing ‘exercise’ for major banks and buy-side to prevent future bonds collapses

The TRADE

As part of the new system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) exercise, participants including major banks, hedge funds, asset managers and pension funds will be asked to evaluate the impact of “severe but plausible” stress including what actions they might individually take in that scenario, with a focus on the UK markets.

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Where to find fintech investment

Growth Business

The fund does state that it will invest €0.25m to €15m over a company’s lifetime. Force Over Mass Force Over Mass has invested in over 175 tech companies at seed and growth stage. Notion Capital VC firm focused on European SaaS and cloud with more than $700m assets under management and more than Series A 100 investments to date.

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

The TRADE

Aaron Hantman, chief executive of Tourmaline, agrees that, despite the pursuit for quality, the decision to outsource – specifically where to outsource – often comes down to economics, explaining that in some cases this can have negative repercussions. “If were in $50-100 billion and another 2.5% in the $100 billion-plus range.

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