Vaccine optimism and hopes of an end to coronavirus quarantines and lockdowns are spurring growth among emerging markets-focused hedge fund managers, new industry analysis shows. Hedge Fund Research said on Friday that an upsurge in both performance and capital over
Stanhope Capital Group (Stanhope Capital) is to acquire FWM Holdings, a specialist in alternative assets which acquired New York-based hedge fund specialist Optima Fund Management in 2019. Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Accelerate Financial Technologies (Accelerate) has launched what it says is Canada’s first alternative investment portfolio ETF, the Accelerate OneChoice Alternative Portfolio ETF (OneChoice), that will list on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker ONEC. Read the full story at
Man Group has raised the alarm over elevated risk appetite and potentially hazardous market positioning following the recent seismic factor reversal, with some hedge fund strategies potentially gambling on “prior winners continuing to win”. In a market commentary on Tuesday,
YRD Capital, the world’s first fund of funds (FoF) to focus on quantitative trading in crypto assets, has now accumulated three years of live track record. This is longer than any of its peers, with an astonishing result of over
Three months of hedge fund inflows came to an abrupt halt at the end of the third quarter, as investors withdrew USD2.8 billion in September amid a surge in coronavirus cases and fears of renewed economic disruption, new data from
Cyprus-regulated cryptocurrency hedge fund ARK36 has partnered with the global virtual currency platform Coinify, which will provide institutional trading services for ARK36, ensuring best execution of orders across multiple trading venues. ARK36 launched in October 2020 as an actively managed
Peregrine Capital (Pty) Ltd (Peregrine Capital) is to start marketing its Peregrine Capital Global Equity Fund, which launched on 18 November 2020. The fund, which sits on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform and is authorised by the Central Bank
Hedge funds attracted USD6.39 billion of new capital last month as investors piled into a wide variety of strategy types, particularly macro and managed futures, according to new industry data from eVestment. Managers running macro and managed futures strategies were
Alameda Research is leading a USD40 million investment round in Oxygen, a decentralised prime brokerage protocol that will offer prime brokerage services that have traditionally been limited to investment banks and hedge funds to everyone, free of centralised control. The
