Pretium Partners has acquired the investment management business of Latigo, a fund manager that specialises in event-driven investing with strategies including distressed securities, special situations and long/short credit and equity investing.Latigo co-founders David Ford and David Sabath are joining Pretium
Investors are slashing their exposure to hedge fund products at the “worst possible time”, says Man Group’s Pierre-Henri Flamand, amid signs that the long bull market run is starting to run out of steam – throwing up new opportunities for
London-based Carmika Partners is to offer its alpha generating equity tail-risk strategy to investors through Kettera Strategies’ Hydra, a managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies. Carmika was founded in 2015, by two industry veterans,
The surge in appetite for ESG-themed trades could be leading investors to ignore investment fundamentals – potentially fuelling a ‘90s-style tech bubble, RWC Partners has warned. The increase in awareness of climate change has prompted allocators to pile into ESG-positive
Hedge fund managers returned 0.07 per cent in January 2020, recording their weakest January since 2016, according to data released by Eurekahedge.
LFIS has launched the LFIS Vision – Global Derivatives Opportunities Fund , a highly-diversified derivatives arbitrage strategy that seeks to profit from dislocations in implied parameters to generate all-weather, absolute returns. The Fund leverages LFIS’ investment approach which blends quantitative and
Apis Capital Management has launched the Apis Token which is designed to enable investors to profit from an actively managed investment strategy, which has returned over 70 per cent per year since inception, while benefiting from the liquid and tradeable
CTAs are maintaining their strong start to 2020, with trend-following portfolios well-balanced between cyclical and defensive assets, boosting profits in the first six weeks of the year. Long positions across equity, fixed income, precious metals and US treasuries have strengthened
From the new UK chancellor’s career background to the latest campaigns from the best-known US managers, activist hedge funds are firmly back in the spotlight, not least after a stellar 12 months of performance.
Short-selling strategies of all stripes seem set to soar amid the ongoing market mayhem which has seen global equities take a pounding following renewed coronavirus fears. The S&P 500 was down almost 5 per cent at one point on Monday
