The year 2021 ended on a positive note as textile and clothing trade bounced back handsomely over 2020, led by demand in the United States. Supply challenges related to the logistics industry remained the highlight of last year, while United Kingdom as well as the European economies were held back by the impact from Brexit. All this happened amidst renewed surges in COVID-19 infections and natural calamities in China which disturbed supply chains heavily. As a result, several key raw materials saw a historical rise in prices including petrochemicals and several others remain in acute shortage. With this backdrop, in the annual F2F webinar, we will rewind the key takeaways of 2021, how the overall economy and particularly the textile and apparel industry progressed after being hit by the pandemic. We will then discuss how the global economy and the textile industry looks to perform going forward, what challenges of 2021 are more likely to continue this year and how prominent will be the
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Starting from a recently published policy brief by HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform on EU funding, this panel discussion will attempt to provide an overview of the possibilities for migration and integration funding for cities within the new EU Budget. The discussion will ask: What funds can be used in what way by cities and municipalities for migration and integration expenses? What is currently be done to improve cities access to direct EU funding? And what can and should be done in the future to strengthen the finan
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Hedgeweek is publishing the first in a series of in-depth analysis reports entitled ‘Institutionalising Digital Assets: Powering the hedge fund crypto surge’ at the end of January.
The exclusive and wide-ranging report will be followed by a webinar on Tuesday, February 15th, where the findings will be discussed by a selection of key figures from the market.
Talking points include:
- Why moves towards stronger regulatory oversight and safe custody of assets can help foster greater institutionalisation of the digital assets industry - How hedge funds looking to step into the crypto arena can best tackle market volatility, technological complexity, and ESG concerns within this sphere - The challenges, risks and opportunities from an investment perspective in 2022, as new products and strategies emerge
Register for this webinar below to join our expert panel and get exclusive access to the report.
Join industry experts to discover how to achieve operational excellence for private credit and private debt strategies in the next episode of the Hedgeweek webinar series.
Talking points include:
- The operational challenges managers face, as more firms look to private debt/credit and other esoteric asset classes to generate alpha
- How firms can manage these more complex fund structures from an operational and accounting perspective
- What the benefits are of co-sourcing and outsourcing respectively and how a firm can create a framework and partnership to better serve operations, data governance, risk management, and compliance
- How to evaluate a managed services provider’s offering and balance different stakeholder demands
- How to achieve operational alpha: can right-sizing your operations illustrate to allocators how credible you are?