Torgos Credit Opportunities: Best Distressed Debt Hedge Fund – Torgos Credit Opportunities is a multi-pronged credit strategy seeking to invest across debt capital structures of corporate issuers primarily in North America and Europe. The strategy allocates capital on a bottom-up basis,
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) has launched PAAMCO Launchpad, a co-investment platform for seeding and supporting emerging hedge funds. Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) is the inaugural PAAMCO Launchpad partner. ERS and PAAMCO believe the PAAMCO Launchpad platform will
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has become the first institutional investment platform to offer access to the Alpha Nasdaq OCIO Indices. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
SureFire Capital’s SureFire Multi-Strat has secured a top ranking from global data provider Preqin. The multi-strategy fund was ranked No1 by Preqin as of 30 September, 2020 in four different Hedge Fund of Funds categories: Year-to-date 2020 net return, Cumulative
Managed futures strategies experienced an entire year’s worth of performance dispersion during a dramatic first three months of 2020, with trend-following hedge funds’ returns hinging as much on luck as skill, a new deep-dive analysis by multi-manager CTA portfolio investment
Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US-based provider of outsourced solutions to private equity and hedge funds has been acquired by IQ-EQ.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Postera Capital, a specialist in crypto-specific investment products and strategies, has acquired sentiment analytics start-up Augmento. In 2018, Berlin-based Fintech Augmento began developing the sentiment analysis algorithm for cryptoassets, quickly becoming a major player in the alternative data industry. With the
CME Group has begun daily publication of a suite of new implied volatility benchmark indexes based on its proprietary CME Group Volatility Index (CVOL) methodology. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Steele Compliance Solutions (Steele) has acquired TransparINT, a technology company harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) technology to provide the next generation of compliance tools. TransparINT’s negative news monitoring application uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to filter vast quantities
