By James Williams – Commodity hedge funds have been in the doldrums somewhat, as the macroeconomic climate continues to make life difficult for managers. Performance, in effect, just hasn’t stacked up, leading to some institutional investors heading for the exit.
FRM Capital Advisors, the hedge fund seeding division of Financial Risk Management, has formed a relationship with Sensato Capital Management which involves FCA investing up to USD50m with Sensato. Sensato was founded in May 2009 by the former co-heads of
Structured investment provider Incapital Europe has launched an initiative to promote understanding of the products among financial advisers through an educational masterclass staged at locations throughout the British Isles. The masterclass, which has been developed with input from the Institute
Interview with Nicholas Brooks – “I would argue that some of the higher beta sectors will perform best in the near-term: within commodities, those that we like best are those with a tight supply/demand balance and that can benefit from
Institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry was the key talking point in a panel discussion chaired by Dan Shapiro (pictured), partner of Schulte Roth & Zabel International. The panel included Jane Buchan, CEO of FoHF firm PAAMCO, Peter Schoenfeld, chairman
Zedd Capital has launched to provide absolute return investment management services for retail investors and professional clients. The first offering is a managed account for retail and institutional investors, using a hedge fund style strategy of long-short investing in European
By James Williams – The CLO market enjoyed a resurgence of sorts in 2012 with approximately USD50billion in new issuance, overshadowing the paltry figure of around USD13billion in 2011. Much of this CLO activity remains in the US, where major
Overlay Asset Management has launched the BNPP/OAM Wealth Preservation Currency Index, a joint initiative with BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking. The index will offer investors access to a “virtual world reserve currency” and will help preserve the purchasing power
With regulated real estate entities accounting for more than GBP30bn of its GBP246bn fund industry at the end of last year, Jersey is unquestionably a leading jurisdiction for the domicile and serv
The IStar Systematic Fund, backed by seeding specialist IMQubator, reconfigured its trading strategy in April 2012 and turned a negative performance into a positive return for the year, ending up at +3.24 per cent at the end of December 2012.
