It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Since Dixon Boardman founded the New York-based firm in 1988, it
A lot has transpired since ML Capital founded its Irish-domiciled MontLake UCITS platform in October 2010 during the first wave of the alternative UCITS boom. From launching with just a single UCITS Fund, ML Capital finished 2017 with 25 UCITS
In Monaco back in 2013 – when bitcoin was priced at USD100 – Alistair Milne, an Internet entrepreneur since 1996, approached Lee Robinson with the idea to launch an innovative digital currency hedge fund. What resulted, in May 2014, was
Hathersage Capital Management LLC is a discretionary global macro investment manager founded in 1991. The firm is a foreign exchange specialist, expressing its global macro views strictly in G10 currencies, using interbank spot, forwards and vanilla options. Hedgeweek’s readership voted Hathersage
Sabre Fund Management is one of London’s most well established hedge fund managers, having launched its flagship market neutral Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund in 2002 and the newer Dynamic Equity Strategy in 2013. The firm is steered by Melissa Hill,
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and finance practice in the Cayman Islands have advised 99, the Brazilian ride-sharing application and Uber competitor, on its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing.
Hedge Invest SGR, an independent asset manager, specialised in alternative investments, has broadened its range of UCITS funds with the launch of HI QuantWave, a systematic quantitative fund with daily liquidity. The fund aims to generating alpha regardless of market
Blackstone’s (NYSE:BX) Strategic Capital Holdings Fund has acquired a passive minority stake in PAG, a leading Asia-focused alternative investment firm. Blackstone’s Strategic Capital Holdings Fund is part of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), and specialises in minority partnerships with leading
The UK manager J8 Capital Management and German investment company Universal-Investment have launched the UI – J8 Global Absolute Return UCITS Fund. The sub-fund implements J8’s award-winning global absolute return strategy, a scientifically-backed, systematic and rules-based multi strategy approach focused
GoldenTree Loan Management (GLM) and its affiliated investment manager GoldenTree Asset Management has closed a EUR405 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO) to be managed by GLM. The CLO, GoldenTree Loan Management EUR CLO 1 (GLM EUR CLO 1), is the
