Investors are divided over how their hedge fund allocations have performed during the recent market crash, a new industry survey has found. Investment consultancy bfinance polled 260 investors – including pension funds, insurers, foundations and endowments and family offices – in
Swedish hedge fund firm Bodenholm Capital is to close after Brummer & Partners, one of the major investors in its funds, announced its decision to withdraw capital. Bodenholm One, a long/short equity hedge fund whose portfolio is built around fundamental
Hedge funds were overall flat this week, emphasising their appealing profile in the current environment, according to the latest weekly brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. The Italian stress mainly hurt CTAs, hit in their long bonds. L/S Equity
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2020 measured 3.11 per cent, up from 2.83 per cent in February.“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2020 was 3.11 per cent, lower than the 3.49 per cent reported for redemptions in
Managed futures strategies have been slowly clawing back gains in recent days, as steep downward trends continued to rock global markets on the back of the coronavirus pandemic.
Distressed debt hedge funds continued to be the best performing strategy on a year-to-date basis, supported by the high yield and leveraged loans market performance during the month on the back of improving risk appetite and lower volatility levels. That’s
Hedge fund investors held their ground in March 2018, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, even as the equity market correction entered its second month. Industry assets climbed to an all-time high of USD3.0 trillion. Data drawn from more
H2O Asset Management, Bruno Crastes’ discretionary macro hedge fund firm, has written to investors to offer its “sincere apologies” for “significant” risk-adjusted losses this past week. “If 2008 was a liquidity crisis, 2011, a volatility crisis, and 2016, a convexity
The hedge fund industry experienced USD21.2 billion in inflows in January, reversing a two-month redemption trend in a turnaround from December’s USD29.0 billion in redemptions.January’s inflows represented 0.7 per cent of industry assets, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator
Brummer & Partners, the long-running Swedish multi-strategy hedge fund firm, is maintaining its market neutral approach and focus on diversification after its flagship strategy stumbled during the recent steep market sell-off. In a note to investors this week, founder Patrik
