Magma Capital Funds (Magma) has launched the Obsidian Fund, a new investment product that will provide current and former professional athletes access to an actively managed, artificial-intelligence driven fund model.

Start-up and emerging hedge funds must increasingly look towards creative techniques and solutions when it comes to getting in front of allocators and raising capital. 

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched the BNP Paribas Multi-Asset Thematic, an innovative fund investing across BNPP AM’s range of thematic strategies.

Franklin Templeton is growing its liquid alternative fund range with the launch of two new strategies – the Franklin K2 Cat Bond UCITS Fund and Franklin K2 Athena Risk Premia UCITS Fund – to capitalise on “growing demand” for liquid UCITs structures.

Gordian Capital has launched the R Squared Global fund, managed by William Warner and Justin Leow. 

Kepler Partners has successfully launched the KLS Athos Event Driven Fund on its Kepler Liquid Strategies UCITS platform, raising over USD70 million of external capital for this new alternative UCITS fund. 

Prestige Group, a specialist private lending asset manager with a successful 12- year track record in the private debt market, is adding a new US strategy to its existing range of successful alternative credit funds.

London-based GWM Asset Management has launched a novel merger arbitrage hedge fund strategy which uses ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors in its investment process.

Stategy Capital LP, a global multi-asset alternative investment management firm, has launched the Stategy Global Macro Fund LP.  

Nikhil Kamath and Richard Pattle, Co-founders of True Beacon, an Indian asset management company, have launched the first operational Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).