Northern Trust has paired up with Two Sigma to offer Venn, the quantitative investment specialist’s cloud-based analytics platform, to its clients.
Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate with clients, according to a major new study by SEI.
Christopher Cruden, manager of the currency and gold-focused CTA strategy Insch Kintore, hopes to capitalise on “ideal” elevated volatility levels in the commodity this year, following a positive start to 2021.
Man Group, the publicly-quoted London-headquartered global hedge fund group, has seen its funds under management hit record highs, with its hedge funds and alternative strategies posting strong performances amid 2020’s unprecedented coronavirus-fuelled turbulence, despite a fall in annual pre-tax profits for the company.
Seizing on the assortment of opportunities arising from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has unveiled a new credit-focused strategy which taps into stressed and distressed situations within mid-market US and European corporate credit, collateralised loan obligations and segments of the European commercial real estate sector.
With the shape of the post-pandemic recovery still in flux, London-based quantitative hedge fund firm Aspect Capital believes its computer-driven global macro strategy is well positioned to capitalise on both short-term market dislocations and medium-term trends this year, as well as benefitting from relative value opportunities amid the varying recovery speeds.
Vaccine optimism and hopes of an end to coronavirus quarantines and lockdowns are spurring growth among emerging markets-focused hedge fund managers, new industry analysis shows.
Founded by a team of Italian former investment bankers, London-based activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners has gained impressive momentum over the past year with its focus on listed, predominantly European large-cap companies.
The concept of outsourced trading is not new to hedge funds, but its relevance has arguably come to the fore over the last 12 months as managers of all shapes and sizes seek out ways to run their businesses as cost-effectively as possible.
Brummer Multi-Strategy CEO Mikael Spångberg says the fund is in a “good position” to deliver continued positive performance, after it posted its second-best annual performance to date – but he underlined the importance of generating alpha in the face of unpredictable markets.
Total global hedge fund assets under management have mushroomed to a record USD3.6 trillion, thanks to defensive outperformance and opportunistic gains during 2020’s upheaval – though the biggest firms continue to take the lion’s share of investor capital as smaller names are squeezed.
The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is set to unlock global “megatrends” this year, including consumer and corporate technology, healthcare, and sustainability themes – and hedge fund investors can expect a “rich environment for growth”, a major new study by JP Morgan Asset Management suggests.
