By Neil Coxhead (pictured), Waystone – On 7 May 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), unveiled plans to create a new regime with the specific aim of channelling investment into more illiquid assets, giving asset managers a hint of how
The Wiltshire Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.97 per cent in March, outperforming the –0.06 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wiltshire
Westbeck Capital Management, the London-based long/short energy specialist hedge fund, is positioning for a continued recovery in oil and oil equities after making bumper returns amid frenzied markets during the first six months of the year. The Westbeck Energy Opportunity
GAM is realigning its systematic capabilities as part of its strategy focused on efficiency, transparency, and growth. The focus will be on GAM Systematic Alternative Risk Premia, which was already planned to move onto the new GAM SimCorp platform, and
Investors poured another +USD12.47 billion into hedge funds in April, bringing year to date (YTD) inflows to +USD28.81 billion, according to the just-released April 2021 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. Overall hedge fund business AUM stood at USD3.525 trillion
Global fintech Gresham Technologies (Gresham), a specialist in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, and payments and cash management, is to acquire post-trade automation specialists, Electra Information Systems, (Electra). Read the full story at Institutional Asset
Talos, an institutional technology provider for digital asset trading, has completed a USD40 million Series A investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz and including investments from PayPal Ventures, Fidelity Investments, Galaxy Digital, Elefund, Illuminate Financial, and STEADFAST Capital Ventures. Read
Trend-following hedge funds and CTA strategies remain in broadly positive territory heading into the final stretch of 2021’s first half, as defensive bets on fixed income look set to pay off against a backdrop characterised by economic recovery and rising
London-based GWM Asset Management has launched a novel merger arbitrage hedge fund strategy which uses ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors in its investment process. The strategy, which rolled out in early May with USD270 million in assets, has a
Healthcare-focused equity hedge fund Rhenman & Partners generated further gains last month as falling US unemployment helped push medical insurance stocks higher. Its flagship healthcare-focused hedge fund finished the first quarter up 5.56 per cent, as a rotation into cyclical
