Illinois Teachers Retirement System (TRS) has fully redeemed a $264 million investment with quantitative hedge fund manager PDT Partners from its $4.3 billion diversifying strategies portfolio, which includes hedge funds and risk-parity strategies.
Despite significant challenges in the hedge fund industry in 2021, such as the GameStop short squeeze, insurance companies still allocated nearly $1 billion to new hedge fund investments in 2021, according to a new AM Best report.
The 2022 Alternative Investment Allocator Survey, conducted by law firm Seward & Kissel LLP, found that 41% of participants anticipated that their firms would increase allocations to digital assets in 2022, more than triple the number from last year’s survey.
The Future Fund, Australia's sovereign wealth fund, is tackling what its chairman has described a "challenging and volatile' period by allocating a further AUD2 billion to hedge fund strategies while shifting AUD4 billion of its portfolio out of cash, according to a report by Financial review.
Cypherpunk Holdings, a specialist in blockchain, metaverse, privacy and cryptography focused investments, has invested USD 500k in the AB Digital Strategies Fund managed by UK FCA-regulated Isla Capital.
Mandate activity among the largest institutional investors soared in 2021 across private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure, and hedge funds, according to research commissioned by Vidrio Financial, a provider of software and integrated data services solutions for institutional alternative allocators globally.
Institutional investors allocated the largest amount of new capital to hedge funds since 2015 in Q1 2022, as Macro funds lead industry performance through extreme volatility driven by generational inflation, interest rate increases and expectations for multiple increases in 2022, and the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including surging commodity prices driving geopolitical uncertainty and tensions to the highest level in decades.
Oklahoma Police Pension & Retirement System has withdrawn its investment allocations to two alternative investment managers, its long/short equity manager Grosvenor Capital, and absolute return manager PAAMCA Prisma, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Fresh capital commitments across hedge funds, private equity and real estate of USD4.4 billion have been approved by The State of Wisconsin Investment Board in Madison, manager of state retirement assets and other portfolios, according to a report by AlternativesWatch.
Alternative assets data, tools, and insights specialist Preqin, has published its H1 Investor Outlook for 2022, with represents the views of more than 350 LPs, interviewed in November 2021, investing across alternative assets — breaking down investor sentiment in the following categories: ESG, private equity, venture capital, private debt, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources.