K2 Advisors, the hedge fund investing unit of Franklin Templeton, says active-management alpha will be critical to hedge funds’ success this year, as the global economy mounts a tentative recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Brooks Ritchey and Robert Christian, co-heads
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has identified the key priorities where financial market infrastructures (FMIs) should focus in the coming years to proactively and effectively manage risk in a post-pandemic environment. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
As global economies re-emerge from the coronavirus lockdown, Hedgeweek rounds up a range of views from across the hedge fund spectrum on how the so-called ‘new normal’ may shape investment opportunities…
The current stock market rebound is “out of step with economic reality”, according to Pictet Asset Management’s chief strategist Luca Paolini. While the sustained market resurgence appears to have bolstered equity and credit-focused hedge funds’ returns during May, Paolini warned that
As the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines continues apace, equity markets look set to enjoy strong support in 2021, says Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management…
Algebris Investments, a London-based multi-strategy credit and equities-focused hedge fund manager, is staking out alpha opportunities across a range of stressed credits which stand to gain from a resumption in activity post-lockdown.
Private credit managers are on track to provide some USD100 billion of real economy financing this year, as investors increasingly turned to the sector as a resilient portfolio hedge and diversifier amid equity market ruptures during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic. New
The largest capital introduction event in history has gone live today (15 June) with the launch of Funds4Food, a two-week network of virtual one-on-one meetings between alternative asset managers and leading allocators that is raising funds to aid relief efforts
Most hedge fund industry employees have been working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, but now firms are split over when staff should return to work and when businesses can resume face-to-face contact with investors and other clients, a new study
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
