Hedge funds took in an estimated USD3.6 billion in November, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research, a welcome reversal after redemptions surged to USD9 billion in October and hit USD2.59 billion in September. Industry assets increased to USD1.71 trillion
Swiss-based systematic trading firm, Da Vinci Invest AG, is preparing to launch a new Cayman fund based on a proprietary strategy it’s been running since 2009, Hedgeweek can exclusively reveal. Speaking with the firm’s co-founder and CEO, Hendrik Klein (pictured)
Whitebox Selected Research – the new research curation portal launched by the Minnesota-based hedge fund Whitebox Advisors – is sponsoring a new contest for research papers published in 2011 that have made an outstanding contribution to the art and science
Figures issued this week show that the value of investment fund business in Guernsey fell by GBP3.4 billion (1.2%) during the third quarter of 2011. This decrease follows eight consecutive quarters of growth and takes the net asset value of
Custom House Global Fund Services has launched Custom House Gateway, a web portal that connects fund servicing with solutions across the middle and back office, designed for US alternative investment managers. “The US hedge fund industry is growing fast globally,
Euroclear is launching a fully open global market infrastructure to source and mobilise collateral across borders. Euroclear’s “Collateral Highway” aims to help market participants move securities from wherever they are held to serve as collateral for access to central bank
Despite the fact that swaps execution facilities (SEFs) don’t technically exist yet and swaps market liquidity isn’t fragmented today, swaps dealers tell TABB Group in a new research report that they intend to spend millions to create, implement and market
Schroders Chief Economist, Keith Wade (pictured), comments on the US Congress decision to approve federal spending and lift the debt ceiling after 16 days of government shutdown, and the impact that this could have on markets… After 16 days of
Euroclear UK & Ireland has cut its investment fund order-routing fees for both high- and low-volume clients with immediate effect. The tariff for 10,000 or more orders per year has been cut by nine per cent, rising to a reduction
The Salus Alpha Event Driven had a performance of +1.51% for the month to date, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +2.02%. The 24 month rolling alpha of Salus Alpha Event Driven to the S&P500 is 3% p.a., the 24
