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December was another difficult month for the hedge fund industry, as the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark recorded performance of -0.40 per cent.
This puts full-year performance for 2015 at 2.02 per cent, the lowest yearly return since 2011, when hedge funds posted -1.77 per cent. December’s losses mean that hedge funds have posted negative returns in five months of the year, while only three months saw them gain more than 1.00 per cent. All top level hedge fund strategies experienced losses in the final month of 2015, with equity strategies posting a negative return of -0.64 per cent, and
- 18/01/2016
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down -0.7 per cent in December, with three out of 11 Lyxor Indices ending the month in positive territory.
The best performers were the Lyxor Merger Arbitrage Index (+1.5 per cent), the Lyxor LS Equity Variable Bias Index (+1.1 per cent), and the Lyxor CTA Short Term Index (+0 per cent) were the best performers.
Disappointment following the ECB meeting and worsening concerns about credit and oil kept pressure on risky asset in early December. After the confirmed Fed’s rate hike, the bottoming in prices by mid-month paved the way for a year-end
- 18/01/2016
Northill Capital (Northill) is to acquire a majority interest in Capital Four Holding, a European High Yield asset management firm, based in Copenhagen, with an award winning performance track record and approximately EUR6 billion of assets under management.
Northill’s investment in Capital Four is consistent with its strategy to invest over the long term in high quality, single-purpose asset management businesses.
Northill’s investment in Capital Four represents approximately 60% of the firm’s equity, with existing partners Sandro Näf, Torben Skødeberg and Henrik Østergaard maintaining ownership of approximately 40%. As a result of the transaction, Northill will have indirectly acquired
- 18/01/2016
After a year of media planning and buying for a leading global financial services client, Opportet Media Group has utilised a combination of traditional and new digital media in an innovative plan, reaching a precise business target audience, and bringing through the newest buying tactics, to produce significant results.
Opportet is capitalising on the ability to precisely target top financial services management in digital media, and place messaging in the most relevant content, to reach the financial services market decision makers. Year long planning produced dramatic double digit percent increases in web site visits, white paper downloads, and active sales
- 18/01/2016
Institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry continues apace. According to Credit Suisse’s mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Sentiment Survey, 93 per cent of institutional investors plan to maintain or increase their allocations to the sector in the second half of this year.
And the longer term trend is for more of the same. For instance, a recent report by KPMG, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Managed Funds Association (MFA) found that over the next five years most managers expect a significant shift in their primary capital sources, away from corporate pension funds and HNW investors towards public pension funds.
- 18/01/2016
Imagineer Technology Group, a provider of technology solutions for investment management firms, has recently been added to Portfolios with Purpose’s (PwP) sponsorship family.
PwP is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to raise awareness and support for impactful charities by providing them with a platform to reach new and potential supporters and donors. PwP accomplished this mission by hosting stock selection competitions where each participant competes on behalf of their favourite charity. Through this contest, individuals are able to pool the resources of the group to make a significant impact on many charities, especially those that are small, underfunded and
- 15/01/2016
Catella has appointed Martin Nilsson (pictured) as new co-manager of the award-winning fund, Catella Hedgefond, in addition to his current role as manager of the Catella Nordic Long Short Equity fund.
Nilsson will now also join the Catella Hedgefond management team.
Together with Sven Thorén, he will manage one of several independent equity mandates, focusing on the Nordic stock markets. The team associated with Catella Hedgefond is otherwise unchanged, with Ulf Strömsten as the responsible lead manager.
Nilsson has been a fund manager at Catella since May 2015, and has since then successfully managed Catella Nordic Long Short
- 15/01/2016
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced that Avox Data Services, a specialist in legal entity reference data, has successfully researched and published two million entities globally in its database.
The number of researched entities continues to rise as more and more market participants rely on DTCC to help them meet their risk management and regulatory reporting obligations, including Dodd-Frank, European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Transaction Reporting, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and other mandates.
DTCC’s Avox Data Services is leveraged by financial firms worldwide to source and maintain accurate legal entity
- 15/01/2016
2015 was a record breaking year for Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of software solutions for the asset management industry, including institutional investment managers, hedge funds, insurance companies and plan sponsors,
Since its inception in 1998, Electra has been guided by a single, client-driven principle – efficient processing is critical to success. As the market continued to increase in complexity in 2015, demand for automated post-trade operation and robust data management solutions quickly rose, increasing Electra’s client base by 20 per cent. While all its solutions contributed to Electra’s growth in 2015, particular strength was evident in Electra’s reconciliation
- 14/01/2016
JMP Group’s hedge fund and investment arm Harvest Capital Strategies has raised USD245 million for the Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to funding companies that utilise the inventions, discoveries and technologies of Intrexon Corporation, a specialist in synthetic biology.
The Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund will invest exclusively in entities that utilise Intrexon’s technology, with a particular focus on new companies, to spur the creation of biologically-based products across a number of sectors, which may include healthcare, food, agriculture, energy, environment, chemicals and consumer products. The fund has made two investments to date: Thrive Agrobiotics, Inc, a startup entity
- 14/01/2016
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