Carbon Cap Management, a London based environmental asset management firm has launched the World Carbon Fund, a globally diversified fund investing into multiple liquid and regulated carbon markets. The Fund pursues an absolute return strategy, seeking to deliver positive returns with
Hedge fund performance during the first half of May was fuelled by CTAs and L/S Equity strategies, while Event-Driven continued to underperform, according to the Latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. On the Lyxor platform, Merger Arbitrage
JP Morgan Alternative Asset Management is rolling out a new long/short ESG-focused hedge fund strategy, which aims to generate alpha by trading a range of global sustainability themes – but warns that more work is needed on ESG education within
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Equity markets around the world sold off last week because of uncertainty relative the Coronavirus’ impact on the global economy and corporate profits. No one knows how bad the economic impact might be, but the
Trader Jeff Tompkins has launched his flagship hedge fund, Altos Capital. The main objective of the fund is to outperform the S&P.
Fortuna Asset Management Communications – a public relations agency specialising in advice to boutique asset managers – has become a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The move by Fortuna AMC is in recognition of the increasing importance
With global markets in freefall on the back of coronavirus fears, BlueBay Asset Management recommends curbing risk levels for now – but suggests alpha opportunities will arise from this week’s market mayhem. The bedlam continued on Friday as both the
Man Group has seen its funds under management surge to a record USD117.7 billion in the last year, up from USD108.5 billion in 2018, which drove pre-tax profits up 54 per cent to USD386 million, as positive fund performance outweighed
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2018 measured 3.47 per cent, up from 2.60 per cent in April. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2018 of 3.47 per cent, reflects an increase from the 3.08 per cent reported for
With the net flow of investor capital remaining firmly positive for the year, and slightly positive for April, the global hedge fund industry seems to be on positive footing so far in 2018. However, nearly 63 per cent of reporting
