The “explosive” upward price movements in energy markets are helping power performance among machine-based hedge funds this year, as CTAs and trend-following strategies successfully lock onto strong price signals.
Hedge funds’ confidence continues to rise, with managers across the UK, Europe and Asia all bullish on their business prospects heading into the final quarter of the year, a key industry sentiment index shows.
Hedge fund short sellers betting against Cineworld have seen their bearish positions tank after the global cinema chain’s share price rocketed on the back of the new James Bond movie release.
The “fluidity” of virtual conferencing has proved a “silver lining” during the pandemic, optimising allocator time during the investor due diligence process, according to new research by alternatives-focused software-as-a-service and data management company Vidrio Financial.
The traditional relationship between Momentum and Value factors is becoming increasingly blurred as the Covid-19 pandemic has upended equity markets, according to Unigestion. New research from Unigestion’s equities team suggests investor confidence has been dented in recent weeks as the
Hedge funds betting against UK blue chip stocks saw their negative wagers pay off on Monday as investor fears over rising coronavirus cases sent the FTSE 100 tumbling some 2.3 per cent. Hopes that the easing of most Covid-19 restrictions
Jack Inglis, the CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, discusses hedge funds’ response to the assortment of operational obstacles arising from the coronavirus-imposed lockdown, how virtual conferencing has reshaped manager-investor relationships, and what the future holds for the industry’s
The Covid-19 pandemic is opening up a deeper discussion around more business functions becoming permanently outsourced, particularly among start-up and emerging hedge funds battling against budgetary constraints. Speakers at the fourth annual HedgeweekLIVE North America Emerging Manager summit this week discussed how
Most US hedge funds and other alternative managers expect to return to work before year-end, but a majority predict sweeping changes to work-from-home policies and office layouts, with close to a third of New York-based managers mulling a reduction in
Continued central bank support amid the Covid-19 pandemic is creating “bubble-style valuations” in markets, according to Chenavari Investment Managers, a London-based credit-focused hedge fund.
