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During the last two weeks of December, hedge funds erased the bulk of the losses recorded earlier in December, when risk aversion was elevated, according to Lyxor.
CTAs were again the best performers, in a remake of the patterns observed throughout the year (+4.7%from 16 December to 30 December). The good news came from Event Driven managers, up +3.1% during the same period. Yet, December was overall a mixed month, the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index being down 0.2% on the back of the underperformance of Fixed Income strategies (-3.1%). Their poor showing was related to the sharp high yield spread
- 06/01/2015
Fixed income asset manager BlueBay Asset Management has appointed Katherine Wentrup-Estupinan as a Sales Director to support the growth of the firm’s Alternatives business.
Wentrup-Estupinan is joining from Strategic Investments Group, a boutique alternative investments advisory firm, where she led the business development and investor relations effort within Southern Europe. Previously, she held a variety of business development roles at Alpha4x Asset Management, HSBC Global Asset Management and HSBC Securities Inc., managing client relationships across Europe, the US and Latin America.
“Katherine’s comprehensive experience of marketing within the alternatives space will help strengthen our existing sales efforts,” says
- 06/01/2015
With As the first AIFMD reporting deadline for many managers of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) looming large on 30 January 2015, firms may turn to outsourcing to meet their obligations.
A survey conducted by the Financial Services team of Moore Stephens highlighted that only half of AIFMs are fully aware of the Annex IV reporting requirements applicable to them and the timetable for submission, with a further 42% being somewhat aware but unsure of the information required. Almost 35% of AIFMs surveyed stated that they were not prepared for the actual reporting process.
Moore Stephens believes that the lack
- 06/01/2015
Mirabaud Asset Management has appointed Patrick Hube as Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for Swiss large cap companies.
Huber's appointment is an additional step towards strengthening the management capabilities of an existing team which, thanks to its expertise and good performances, has been able to win numerous mandates and multiple awards. Among other asset classes, in Swiss equities specifically Mirabaud Asset Management currently manages nearly one billion Swiss francs, distributed among various Swiss equity funds and mandates, both on behalf of professional and institutional investors.
With fifteen years' experience and an unparalleled level of knowledge of Swiss companies, Huber joins
- 06/01/2015
Just one of IndexIQ’s proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indexes recorded positive performance in December.
The IQ Hedge Global Macro Beta Index returned 0.79% for the month while the other six indexes all saw negative returns.
The IQ Hedge Event-Driven Beta Index was the worst performer with a return of -1.52%, followed by the IQ Hedge Emerging Markets Beta Index (-1.06%), the IQ Hedge Long/Short Beta Index (-0.94%), the IQ Hedge Composite Beta Index (-0.62%), the IQ Hedge Fixed Income Arbitrage Beta Index (-0.53%) and the IQ Hedge Fixed Income Arbitrage Beta Index (-0.47%).
Designed as
- 06/01/2015
The amount of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issued reached a record level in 2014, according to Artemis.bm.
Artemis.bm recorded USD8.8 billion of new catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities issuance in 2014 in its Deal Directory, the highest level recorded in a single year since the cat bond and ILS market emerged in the mid-1990's. Artemis has published a new market report providing details on this issuance.
As well as achieving a new annual record for issuance of new catastrophe bond and ILS risk capital, the outstanding market of in-force cat bond and ILS transactions reached another new record,
- 06/01/2015
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has appointed Christophe Baurand as Global Head of Commercial, Marketing and Liquidity Management.
Based in Paris, he reports to Bruno Prigent, Head of SGSS, and joins the SGSS Executive Committee. Baurand replaces Massimo Cotella, who has left Societe Generale to pursue other opportunities outside the group. His appointment took effect on 1st January 2015.
Baurand is responsible for the commercial development and marketing strategy of SGSS, as well as for implementing the different commercial initiatives in the SGSS development and competitiveness plan that was launched in 2014.
“With his experience in Societe Generale group,
- 06/01/2015
Each year Agecroft Partners leverages its contact with more than two thousand institutional investors and hundreds of hedge fund organisations to predict the top hedge fund industry trends for the coming twelve months.
Because the hedge fund industry is very dynamic and constantly changing, it is important for firms to anticipate what changes are likely to occur. Those who effectively evolve with the industry will succeed, while stagnant firms will be left behind. Here Agecroft’s managing partners Donald A Steinbrugge makes his predictions for the biggest trends in the hedge fund industry 2015…
1. Greater Alpha Due to Decreased Correlations &
- 06/01/2015
- 06/01/2015
DW Partners has assumed the role of manager for two hedge funds previously managed by Brevan Howard, totalling more than USD5 billion in assets, effective 1 January, 2015.
DW served as the investment manager for the vehicles with responsibility for all investment decisions for the Funds since their inception.
DW, a credit-focused multi-strategy asset manager, oversees in excess of USD6 billion in hedge fund assets, focusing predominately on corporate, structured and asset-backed investments. The firm has a team of 50 investment and operational professionals, and is headquartered in New York City.
The assumption of management by DW was overwhelmingly
- 06/01/2015
Nearly two thirds (64%) of investors believe that the European Central Bank will implement quantitative easing before the end of next year, with more than a quarter (27%) expecting it to take place in Q1 2015.
That’s according to the latest findings from ING Investment Management’s Risk Rotation Survey.
On a regional level, European investors are most confident that this will be avoided, with one in five (22%) believing that a Sovereign QE programme will not be required at all, compared to just 8% of those in North America and 13% based elsewhere in the world.
The future of Europe
- 06/01/2015
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