FRM Capital Advisors, the seeding division of Financial Risk Management, has entered its first strategic relationship with an Asian hedge fund. FCA will make a significant investment in the first fund to be launched by Isometric Capital Management, owned and
Convergex, a provider of investment and execution technologies to institutional clients, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Cogent Consulting. Cogent is a software development firm specialising in advanced commission management solutions for institutional money managers and
Bandon Capital Management has launched the Bandon Isolated Alpha Fixed Income Fund (BANIX), a global absolute return-oriented fixed income strategy. The fund, sub-advised by two highly regarded institutional specialist investment managers, is intended to be an “all season” strategy for
Managed futures gained 1.11 per cent in April, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is up 2.11 per cent year to date. “Rising prices for equities and debt securities were fuelled by central
Following on from our successful Hedgeweek 2011 global awards, which attracted a lot of votes from the US, we are conducting a survey of Hedgeweek’s US-based readership to assess the best US hedge fund performers and US service providers during
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) CIO James Millard explains that, despite the earthquake in Japan and rising oil prices, the company remains bullish on global equites… We remain overweight global equities. The February Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMIs) were very strong, suggesting
An increase in client redemption requests is threatening the viability of even the most well-managed hedge funds, according to a white paper published by Pershing, a BNY Mellon company, and Aite Group. The paper, Fueling Growth: Outsourcing Solutions for Hedge
Global demand for retail focused, liquid alternative investment products will reach USD939bn by 2017, more than three times the current level, according to a survey from Citi Prime Finance. The growth forecast comes amid new flexibility for mutual fund and
Eight of Newedge’s 11 hedge fund indices showed positive performance during the month of April. The Newedge Trend Index increased 3.85 per cent in April, followed by the Newedge CTA Index, which gained 1.45 per cent. The Newedge Trend
Media finance and consulting firm Noci Pictures is in discussions with US and international private equity partners in closing a USD300m dollar structured media and entertainment fund that would finance 20 to 30 films. The firm says many hedge funds,
