This year’s Covid-19 stock market upheaval has revealed an “Achilles’ heel” in quantitative hedge fund models that use traditional factors such as momentum and value, as machine-based strategies have struggled against “unique new drivers of stock returns that don’t fit
Deer Park Road is maintaining an aggressive short position in commercial mortgage backed securities as the market continues to fall because of lockdown. Although the Colorado-based structured credit manager, which was established by Michael Craig-Scheckman in 2003, expects to shift
As global equities markets on both sides of the Atlantic continue to flutter, credit and emerging markets are throwing up comparatively attractive trading opportunities, BlueBay Asset Management, the London-based fixed income and credit-focused hedge fund, said on Thursday. Against a
The alternative investment industry is coming together to aid relief efforts for the victims of Covid-19.From 15 June to 2 July, 2020, iConnections, a provider of customised networking software ands solutions for financial services firms, will host Funds 4 Food – an online
With the broader hedge fund industry facing multiple challenges around rising costs, squeezed profits, and a shifting regulatory backdrop, the prime brokerage sector will need to juggle future disruptions and sweeping changes in client activity as a result of the
Cheyne Capital, the London-based credit and multi-strategy alternative investment manager, has continued to attract investor allocations during this year’s turbulence with its focus on market dislocations, as its thematic long/short equity hedge fund notched up successive gains in March and
In his latest monthly blog, Joel Press, formerly a senior partner and Head of the Global Hedge Fund Practice at Ernst & Young, and a leading voice on hedge fund operations and co-ordination services, looks at how social distancing might
The recent equity market rally is unlikely to stave off the “devastating” economic impact of Covid-19 this year, according to Absolute Return Partners’ founder and CIO Niels Clemen Jensen.
Doug King, CEO and CIO of RCMA Capital’s long-running Merchant Commodity Fund, has described Covid-19 as an “out-and-out demand shock” to oil markets that cannot be solved or cured by governments and central banks. The recent crash in commodities markets
Truss Edge, a provider of technology and automation solutions to the global hedge fund and ETF management industry, has made further enhancements to its services to help fund managers whose staff are working remotely.“We continue to follow our roadmap of
