Semper Capital Management’s Semper Short Duration Fund (SEMIX, SEMRX) has surpassed USD500 million in assets under management as a result of strong performance and investor demand since inception in December 2010. The Fund has a 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating out of
The global hedge fund industry returned +1.75 per cent in December, bringing aggregate 2019 full-year returns to +9.74 per cent, according to eVestment’s December 2019 hedge fund performance data. 2019 marked the industry’s best aggregate returns since 2013, when the industry
Now entering its sixth year of operation, ProMeritum Investment Management – a London-based discretionary emerging markets fixed income-focused manager – has notched up five successive years of positive returns since launching in January 2015. With more than USD350 million in
UCITS and AIFs recorded net sales of EUR28 billion in Q2 2018, a significant decrease on the EUR222 billion of sales seen in Q1, according to the latest European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) Quarterly Statistical Release for the European investment funds
Hedge funds posted gains in August as US equities and the dollar expanded their respective divergence with non-US assets, Emerging Markets currencies extended losses, and the US technology sector extended record gains. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) gained
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was flat-to-marginally positive at 0.05 per cent during August, trailing the MSCI AC World Index (Local) which gained 1.06 per cent over the month. The Eurekahedge North American Hedge Fund Index maintained its lead gaining
Most hedge fund strategies were in negative territory for the first half of September, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Sector rotations in equities, the US dollar reversal, the rise in bond yields and
Close to 60 per cent of Alternative UCITS funds posted losses in August, pushing broad-based indices lower. The LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index lost -0.41 per cent, bringing 2018 YTD to -1.43 per cent. Only one quarter of all funds
Total Assets under Management (AUM) in Europe increased by 10 per cent in 2017 to EUR25.2 trillion, according to the 10th edition of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) Asset Management Report. In relation to GDP, the value
While hedge funds’ performance and alpha were ‘honourable’ until the summer, analysis by Lyxor suggests that they erased about 2.5 per cent of alpha since June, with no turn in sight yet in September. Lyxor writes: “L/S Equity funds were
