Pershing, a BNY Mellon company, has made a non-controlling investment in HedgeMark and obtained rights to acquire HedgeMark over time. HedgeMark offers a comprehensive, end-to-end hedge fund managed accounts platform in recognition of the substantial institutional demand for alternative investments.
An EU proposal for the public disclosure of the net short positions of individual managers risks distorting financial markets and is not effective in meeting the needs of companies wishing to raise capital, investors seeking efficient risk management or regulators
Hedge fund managers are upbeat on US equities but less bullish than a month ago, according to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers for January. About 37% of the 91 hedge fund managers the firms surveyed are bullish
The secondary market witnessed one of, if the not the broadest selling effort by investors in the secondary space in the decade since the market was established. A high volume of trading across the spectrum of strategies in December suggests
The MQ Asia Long Short Fund was up 4.26 per cent in May, driven by alpha generation as the fund’s correlation to the MSCI Asia Pacific Index sat at -0.01 per cent, according to Australi
It is not so much the presence of funding ratio constraints that is costly for pension funds as their reluctance to implement optimal risk-management strategies, according to research b
Alpine Woods Capital Investors, LLC, the adviser to the Alpine Mutual Funds, has announced the inception of the Alpine Global Consumer Growth Fund. Alpine’s newest fund will concentrate investments on opportunities in consumer products and services throughout the world. It
FRM’s Managed Futures fund, FRM Sigma, returned approximately 18% in 2010, maintaining its position as one of the industry’s top-performing CTA funds. Sigma’s performance was generated through a dynamic approach that uses managed accounts to invest in a concentrated number
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is consulting the public on the proposed introduction of new metals futures contracts, namely lead, tin and steel billet, for trading on SGX’s derivatives market. The proposed new contracts will expand SGX’s current suite of commodities contracts,
Investor behaviour in the hedge fund market can be better analysed by drawing on insight from the closed-end mutual fund market, according to Dr Ta
