Episode 17: Rise of The Micro Fund
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Episode 16: How to effectively fundraise for an FX fund?
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Episode 15: Where should you license your crypto fund or exchange?
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Natallia Hunik and Praveen Kumar dive into the hot topic of evolving crypto regulations and what the firms should be doing to stay within the lanes as global crypto regulations are evolving.
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Episode 14: How to scale your hedge fund’s AUM beyond 100 million?
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Natallia Hunik discusses challenges of fundraising for a hedge fund with Laurence Yang, overachiever and successful hedge fund manager from Australia.
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Episode 13: Operating retail FX brokerage in Europe - the path to success
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Natallia Hunik discusses running an FX brokerages in Europe with Ricardo Evangelista, CEO of ActivTrades Europe. How do European brokers market to regions given regulatory restrictions, how do they navigate the ever changing regulatory landscape and how are European clients differ from the rest of the world. This and much more about running an FX brokerage in Europe in this episode with Ricardo.
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Episode 12: Why is it so hard to get payment solutions for FX brokers?
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Natallia Hunik discusses with James Cameron, Chief Risk Officer at iSignthis, independent card acquirer and e-money institution, publicly listed in the Australian and Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ASX: ISX | FRA: TA8) since 2015, the reasons behind the FX industry struggles with getting banking and payment channels. Besides, James discusses the rationale behind considering the FX business as an ultra high risk by banking institutions, and what can FX businesses do about it.
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Episode 11: Should you trust FX media and review sites?
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Natallia Hunik discusses all things FX and financial media with Andrew Saks. We talk about journalistic standards in the industry, discuss the goods and bads of the current coverage and uncover opportunities.
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Episode 10: What are the M&A activity trends in margin FX sector?
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Natallia Hunik discusses M&A activity trends in the margin FX sector with Demetris Tsingis, founder of Fincap
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Episode 9: How to monetize your trading experience with Dave Floyd
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Dave Floyd, successful trader and fund manager, shares his life journey as a trader and how he was able to build a successful business. We will talk about treating FX as an asset class, copy trading, investment opportunities in the space and his views on FX trading platforms.
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Episode 8: Optimizing execution and scaling hedge fund-Part 2
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One of the toughest challenges for any hedge fund to overcome is figuring out how to scale the strategy. Jim Simons' fund Renaissance Technologies, started in the commodities and futures markets, but could not scale its strategies in those markets past $1 billion AUM. FX is a very fragmented market and the challenge of scaling a strategy is even more relevant as your AUM grows.
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Natallia Hunik and Andrew Gillibrand dive deep into the world of micro investing, gamification of trading and the power of retail investors. What does the future bring for retail investors as technological advancements untap more new investment opportunities?
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Andrew Gillibrand: CEO and Founder of Union, a Distribution Ecosystem for Alternative Investments. Formerly a manager, with a strong focus on the contrarian, Andrew is now a pioneer in the world of alternative investments, driving his vision for an industry ripe for disruption.
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- Andrew has spent the last part career in alternative asset management. How did he get an idea about starting Union? What prompted that? What inefficiencies he has noticed in the industry that prompted him to start his own company? And what is a micro fund?
- Andrew’s technology is focusing on fund distribution. During FX Hedge Fund Expo 2020, Advanced Markets, the event organizer, has surveyed the participants about their biggest challenges when trying to raise funds and #1 cited reason was lack of personal network. How can Andrew’s platform help with that?
- The asset management industry has undergone many shifts within the last few decades, from the rise of hedge funds to ETFs and tracking funds. But lately there has been massive disruption coming from the bottom – from retail users that can move the markets using crowd power, trade fractional shares and follow other successful leaders. Micro investing has taken market by the storm: real estate syndicates, fractional shares, works of art, wine, cars and much more. How are Micro Funds different and why would an investor consider their inclusion in a portfolio?
- Fragmentation and volatility (or what used to be volatility ) make FX less attractive as an investment class than other asset classes. Does Andrew’s platform attempt to solve this problem?
- What are the major challenges that FX fund managers face when trying to scale their strategies?