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LoCorr Funds has restructured its Managed Futures Strategy Fund in a bid to provide benefits to investors by reducing overall fund expenses, focusing on improving tax efficiency and offering access to three prominent institutional investment managers in the managed futures space.
The new fund structure provides more transparency and clarity through the elimination of the total return swap and thereby offering direct access to the investment managers as sub-advisers of the Fund. This change eliminates all fees associated with the swap, including any performance-based incentive fees paid to the underlying managers. The overall fees will be a minimum of 1.55
- 05/04/2016
Sadis & Goldberg LLP is one of New York's leading financial services focused law firms. Known both domestically and internationally as a dominant force in the financial services sector, Sadis & Goldberg serves clients throughout the world and was recently ranked as one of the top five law firms for hedge fund launches in the 2016 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report.
The Financial Services Group is headed up by partner Ron Geffner and comprised of 13 attorneys that have each spent a significant amount of their career practicing in the private fund space, providing a compelling roster of seasoned legal
- 05/04/2016
- 05/04/2016
For the last three years, Sabre Fund Management, one of London's most well established hedge fund managers, has been running a low net equity strategy in tandem with the market neutral Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund.
Launched in February 2013, Sabre Dynamic Equity Fund is a fully systematic equity long/short strategy with a variable bias.
"On average, markets go up. So by constraining a strategy to remain market neutral – as we do with our Style Arbitrage Fund – you will leave some of the available equity returns on the table. What appeals to investors about our Dynamic Equity Strategy is that
- 05/04/2016
At the heart of Swiss-based RBR Capital Advisors AG's investment philosophy is the strong belief that rigorous bottom up research has the potential to allow it to outperform the markets on a consistent basis. RBR Capital invests in companies by building a strong fundamental investment case allowing it to take meaningful position sizes in those companies in which it has the most conviction.
Rudolf Bohli (pictured), Founder and CEO of RBR Capital Advisors, and his investment team invests only in Continental European equities where, as Bohli explains: "we have strong local alpha with Swiss and German companies due to the
- 05/04/2016
Quaesta Capital AG is an independent Swiss financial services provider with a primary focus on currency management. Based in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, Quaesta Capital AG was founded in 2005 and currently manages approximately USD3bn in currency volatility and global macro strategies and bespoke currency overlay mandates.
It is regulated both by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Quaesta Capital's FX long/short volatility programme is called v-Pro & v-Pro Dynamic. It has a nine-year track record, a Sharpe ratio of 0.88 (through 31st Jan 2016), and is market neutral in its trading style. The v-Pro
- 05/04/2016
- 05/04/2016
Preqin is a leading alternative asset data provider that sits between managers and investors, tracking appetite for the industry based on fund raising activity and fund performance. Since it was established 15 years ago, Preqin has been the go-to source for investors as they assess manager performance and track record as part of their selection process.
Amy Bensted (pictured), Head of Hedge Fund Products at Preqin gave an insightful presentation to open this year's Hedgeweek Awards Event at the Reform Club in London. Making reference to Preqin's latest global hedge fund report published in January, Bensted said that year-on-year, institutional
- 05/04/2016
Peregrine Communications is an international, asset management marketing communications specialist, providing brand building, brand protection and lead generation services to help clients grow AUM. It has been delivering integrated marketing communications for hedge funds since 2002, supporting an increasingly international client base from its primary offices in London and New York.
Factor in that Peregrine has a bench of senior advisors, including Savuti's founder, Ben Scales, Tim Bell, former Head of Alternatives at UBS, and Rob Allard, former head of structured products at Goldman Sachs, and one can appreciate the weight of expertise Peregrine clients have at their disposal.
- 05/04/2016
Piquant Technologies' Pegasus Fund launched in 2013 and has delivered stable and diversifying returns annualising at just over 10 per cent. Piquant runs a fully automated portfolio, gaining trading insights by applying machine-learning techniques to huge datasets.
The model uses multiple signals and as Piquant's Chief Investment Officer James Holloway (pictured) comments: "It's hard to find new signals and it's even harder to aggregate all that information and know what to do with it; not only to try and determine which way the markets are going to go, but also to make predictions about risks, costs, and liquidity.
"We have
- 05/04/2016
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Multi-award-winning hedge fund administrator Opus Fund Services was established in Bermuda in 2006, subsequently expanding its footprint into the US with offices in Chicago (2008), San Francisco (2009), New York (2013) and Portland (2014). It serves over 275 fund managers and 400+ funds with a combined AUM exceeding USD10.5bn.
Last year saw another flurry of activity among hedge fund administrators, both large and small, and for a mid-sized administrator with an institutional offering, Opus was able to reap the benefits; this was partly due to M&A activity, and partly due to banking groups deciding to focus on other areas of
- 05/04/2016
The IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (`QAI') seeks to replicate the risk-adjusted return characteristics of hedge funds using multiple hedge fund investment styles, including long/short equity, global macro, market neutral, event-driven, fixed income arbitrage, and emerging markets.
Since its inception in 2009, QAI has outperformed the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index during all 12 rising rate periods. Based on IndexIQ's proprietary rules-based process, QAI rebalances exposures across the broad hedge fund strategies to respond to the changing dynamics of the market. To clarify, QAI does not invest in hedge funds and the Index it tracks (IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Index) does
- 05/04/2016
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