Hedge funds took in a net USD430m (0.02 per cent of assets) in April, building on an inflow of USD817m in March, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs. The results are based on data from 3,393 funds. The industry
Edhec-Risk Institute has launched a risk and investment management programme after a survey found that further education was needed to close the gap between real-word practice and research. The Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management will provide experienced practitioners
Asset managers and investment specialists taking part in a Camradata roundtable believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis will be fully integrated into investment management by the end of the current decade. While there were differences of opinion
Arnaud Chrétien (former quantitative manager for the sovereign fund Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and later the Global CTA desk at SGAM AI) has created Aequam Capital, an independent, quantitative fund management company. The first company to be incubated by the
The proportion of UK-based investment professionals who believe that developed market equities are overvalued has doubled in the last 12 months, according to the CFA UK Valuations Index. The most recent publication of the CFA Society of the UK’s
LGT Capital Partnershas been awarded a GBP100 million multi-alternatives mandate from Kingfisher Pension Scheme. The mandate is focused exclusively on alternative investments and includes hedge funds, commodities, insurance-linked securities, property, private equity and other alternative asset classes. Roberto Paganoni, CEO
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 0.42 per cent in May with six of the 10 sub strategies recording positive returns. Event driven led the way with a return of 2.27 per cent followed by
The hedge fund industry posted an inflow of USD15.7 billion (0.9% of assets) in March 2011, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. The inflow marks the third straight as well as the seventh in eight months. Industry assets rose
A rise in interest rates is not the answer to rising inflation warns Lawrence Galitz of ACF Consultants, after UK Chancellor George Osborne predicted in his ‘Budget for Growth’ that inflation will rise to 5% this year before dropping to
A few days after the initial shock of the enormous problems facing Knight Capital began to subside, only months after the Facebook IPO and its subsequent fall-out, TABB Group decided to measure the institutional community’s confidence in US equity market
