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Sentiment for hedge fund industry growth is positive, with investors forecasting a 14.4% increase in hedge fund industry AuM during 2015, according to the latest Credit Suisse Annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey.
This represents an increase over last year’s forecast, which investors estimated at 12.0%. If accurate, this forecast growth would push industry assets over USD3 trillion for the first time in its history.
According to the survey – On the Path to Broader Horizons – which was produced by Credit Suisse’s Hedge Fund Capital Services Group and polled the views of 378 institutional investors, representing USD1.13 trillion of hedge
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The German financial regulator (BaFin) has recently adopted a reciprocal private placement policy whereby German funds not within scope of AIFMD are allowed to be privately placed into other EU member states, with corresponding funds from EU member states allowed to be privately placed into Germany on an expedited basis.
Hassans has taken a leading role in the drafting of a new private placement regime for Gibraltar, in part to satisfy BaFin’s requirements to gain reciprocal rights, and has acted for the first Gibraltar fund to gain approval from BaFin to privately place into Germany on a reciprocal rights basis.
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RCM Alternatives is to join forces with Attain Capital Management, acquiring its fund offerings, education, research and database assets while bringing its principals and employees under the RCM umbrella.
The transaction is expected to close in the first week of March.
Both Chicago-based companies specialise in pairing high net-worth individuals, investment advisors, and institutional investors with commodity-focused managed futures investments through separately managed accounts and private funds. The combination of these leading companies in the managed futures space underscores the growing demand for access to alternative investments that can work as a hedge against market volatility and provide diversification through
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A new hedge fund, first and foremost, needs to raise investment. There are a many factors which differentiate a successful investment round from an unsuccessful one, not least the experience of the fund managers, and whether the proposed strategy is convincing. All funds however need to demonstrate best practice around their risk.
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First Derivatives (FD), a provider of software and consulting services, has appointed Virginia Gambale to the Board of the Company as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
A US citizen, Gambale has extensive experience as an enterprise technology buyer in capital markets, a technology venture capital partner and an independent director across diverse industry sectors.
Gambale is managing partner of Azimuth Partners LLC, which assists in the development of strategies for growth, innovation and international expansion. In this role she has helped to scale international businesses, including Piper Jaffray, Infonic AG, Knoa Software, Workbrain and IQ Financial SystePrior to forming
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Collins Capital has launched the Collins Long/Short Credit Fund (CCLIX/CLCAX), a mutual fund offering a true long/short credit strategy that dynamically adjusts exposure throughout the credit cycle.
"Traditional bond portfolios may be the most dangerous part of investors' portfolios today and there are few established alternative credit strategies available to mitigate that risk," says Dorothy Weaver, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Collins Capital. "We are six years into the credit recovery, yields are compressed, froth is building and the 'beta trade' is over. We believe the environment for a long/short approach to credit is ripe
- 04/03/2015
February average daily volume in VIX futures on the CBOE Futures Exchange was 166,547 contracts, a decrease of 23 per cent from February 2014 and a decrease of 27 per cent from January 2015.
Total volume in VIX futures for February was 3.2 million contracts, down 23 percent from a year ago and down 31 percent from the previous month.
February exchange-wide ADV was 166,660 contracts, a 23-per cent decrease from February 2014 and a 27-per cent decrease from January 2015. Exchange-wide total volume during the month was 3.2 million contracts, a 23-percent decrease from a year ago
- 04/03/2015
Independent corporate, fund and private client services provider JTC has appointed Will Cameron (pictured) in a Director role as the Head of the firm’s Fareham office
which is an operational centre for some of the Group’s client administration, accountancy and corporate secretarial services.
Cameron joined JTC in 2015 from Saltgate (UK) Limited where he worked as a Director of Client Services with responsibility for all accounting and administration deliverables. Prior to this, he was with the Capita Financial Group working in their Fund Administration division with a specific focus on the real estate sector.
In heading up the management of
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The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index (CSLAB), which aims to reflect the performance of the overall hedge fund industry, finished up 2.63% in February.
The Event Driven strategy was the strongest performer, finishing up 4.19% in February. The Managed Futures strategy was down 1.31% in February, but remained the highest performer year-to-date, up 6.78%.
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Hedge funds assets are expected to surpass USD3 trillion by year end 2015, growing a further 7%, according to Deutsche Bank’s 13th annual Alternative Investment Survey.
Deutsche Banks’ Global Prime Finance business polled the views of 435 hedge fund investors, representing over USD1.8 trillion in hedge fund assets under management (AUM), for the survey which also reveals that institutional investment in hedge funds is set to increase, with 39% of these investors planning to increase their allocation to hedge funds in 2015.
Since 2008, assets managed by firms with more than USD5 billion AUM have grown 141%, compared to
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