The Oxfordshire Pension Fund Committee has been recommended to approve cutting its multi-asset (DGF) target allocation of 5 per cent to 0 per cent.
The hedge fund outlook for 2022 is optimistic as investors seek to inject a further dose of capital into low beta strategies to protect against rising inflation.
South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is partnering with Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) to co-invest in overseas hedge funds, according to a report in the Korea Economic Daily.
The global pandemic continues to significantly impact investment strategies among global asset managers, according to new research from Clearwater Analytics (CWAN).
New research from London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), Europe’s largest regulated digital assets hedge fund manager, reveals that institutional investors and wealth managers have dramatically increased their allocation to cryptocurrencies and digital assets over the past 12 months.
Fee discounts and most-favoured nation clauses now feature in almost half of all side letters within the hedge fund industry according to a new study by Seward & Kissel, which also found that the number of smaller, newer managers using such agreements has fallen over the last 12 months.
Increasingly frequent spikes in the VIX volatility index could offer hedge funds and other investment managers strong return opportunities amid the resulting equity market gyrations, new analysis published by Man Group suggests.
Maso Capital, an event driven and convertible arbitrage-focused hedge fund based in Hong Kong, was established in 2012 by Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana, who previously managed money for Och-Ziff’s Asia-focused strategies.
Investors poured more than USD7 billion of new capital into hedge funds globally in October, the strongest capital inflows recorded in more than a decade for what is a traditionally quiet month for industry coffers – but there are warnings that new allocations are becoming concentrated in a small handful of funds and strategies.
CTAs and trend-following hedge funds have seen their recent advance halted, as anxieties over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 punctured market momentum towards the end of last month.