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Overall sentiment is positive for hedge fund industry growth with investors forecasting a 3.5 per cent increase in new inflows during 2017, according to the ninth annual Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Investor Survey.
Entitled Shifting Tides, the survey, which is based on responses from over 320 institutional investors representing USD1.3 trillion of hedge fund investments, reveals that the industry began the year at an all-time high for assets under management of USD3.018 trillion.
Investors appear to be making real headway in the push for better alignment of terms, with 61 per cent of respondents reporting that they had at
- 01/03/2017
Beaumont Capital Management (BCM), a provider of tactical, ETF-based investment solutions, has made its strategies available through HedgeCoVest, a unified managed accounts platform, and SMArt Xchange, an alliance partnership between HedgeCoVest and SS&C Advent.
The sub-advisory relationship with HedgeCoVest will offer investment advisors access to BCM’s defensive-oriented growth strategies through www.hedgecovest.com or through www.smartx.us for Advent clients.
“BCM is pleased that our tactical investment strategies have been selected as one of the first of their kind offered on HedgeCoVest’s growing platform,” says Bob D Peatman (pictured), director of national sales, Beaumont Capital Management. “We have seen strong interest and
- 28/02/2017
Hedge funds were up 1.35 per cent in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, with all but two of Barclay’s 17 hedge fund indices gaining ground during the month.
Emerging Markets got off to a fast start in 2017 with a 2.63 per cent gain, Technology was up 2.57 per cent, Healthcare and Biotechnology gained 2.22 per cent, the Event Driven Index added 2.08 per cent, and Distressed Securities were up 1.78 per cent.
“A global stock market rally pushed US equity prices to new all-time highs — again, as the promise of tax
- 28/02/2017
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have been chosen by the Irish transmission system operators EirGrid and SONI as service providers for the Integrated Single Electricity Market in Ireland (I-SEM).
Together, they will support EirGrid and SONI to set up the new local power exchange SEMOpx which will operate the Day-Ahead and Intraday markets in Ireland.
The product offering will comprise a Day-Ahead auction coupled with the rest of Europe and continuous and auction intraday markets.
The project partners envisage to launch all markets by mid-2018. In its capacity as a central counterparty,
- 28/02/2017
Roy Niederhoffer (pictured) graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Computational Neuroscience in 1987 and has seen a lot of quantitative hedge funds come and go since 1993, when he established RG Niederhoffer Capital Management Inc, a quantitative trading advisor that employs a short-term contrarian investment strategy taking its inspiration from the field in which Niederhoffer studied.
Niederhoffer will be sitting on the panel Artificial Intelligence – should we unplug man from the machine? at next month’s Amsterdam Investor Forum. In his view, whilst it is clear that in some domains machine learning and artificial intelligence is starting
- 28/02/2017
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Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns.
It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative offers, including the Uni-Global – Cross Asset Trend Follower, Uni-Global – Alternative Equities Compass World, the Unigestion Long/Short Global Opportunities fund and the Uni-Global – Absolute Return.
The launch of this strategy addresses three major concerns for investors and the asset management industry.
Firstly, expected returns for traditional investments are not very attractive, as bond yields remain at
- 28/02/2017
GAM has appointed Matthew Beesley as head of equities.
Beesley, former head of global equities at Henderson, will work with all of the GAM equity teams to optimise performance and risk management, ensure strong links with sales, marketing and operations and also drive information collaboration across teams.
Beesley has more than 19 years of investment experience. He starts on 6 March 2017 and will be based in London.
GAM fund managers benefit from the freedom to follow their own investment philosophy and processes, with active conviction investment styles that are not wedded to benchmarks.
Group CEO Alexander
- 28/02/2017
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Enstar Group has appointed Jie Liu to its board of directors, effective 21 February 2017.
Liu is a managing director of Hillhouse Capital Management and has been with the company since 2015.
Prior to joining Hillhouse, he was head of credit and a senior portfolio manager for Sentry Investments, a Canadian asset manager, for over five years.
Liu has also served as a fixed income research analyst at RBC Capital Markets and a credit rating specialist at Standard & Poor’s.
Dominic Silvester, Enstar’s chief executive officer, says: “We have worked alongside Jie in recent months as Hillhouse
- 28/02/2017
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INTL FCStone’s precious metals division has launched a physical gold trading platform, PMXecute+.
PMXecute+ allows customers access to INTL's entire global inventory and network of supply partners, helping them find the best offers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Customers who do not see offers meeting their specific requirements (regarding quantity, specification or location) can use the platform's Request for Quote function, which notifies all relevant suppliers around the world.
Suppliers can anonymously create firm or indicative offers (premium, location, expiry date) on the platform for all customers to view and, if they like what they see,
- 28/02/2017
UK hedge fund manager Crispin Odey will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum.
The founding partner of Odey Asset Management will top the bill for the annual event, which this year is titled “Real funds and real money in a post-truth world”.
It takes place on 11 May at etc. venues, 155 Bishopsgate in London.
Guernsey Finance chief executive Dominic Wheatley says Odey will add gravitas and context to the event.
“Crispin is one of London’s best known hedge-fund managers and his wealth of knowledge and experience is sure to bring a fascinating
- 28/02/2017
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