Rational Funds has launched the Rational Special Situations Income Fund (RFXIX), which utilises an investment strategy primarily focused on non-agency residential mortgage backed securities. The fund, which originally launched as a hedge fund in 2009 and was converted into a
NextWave Ventures, a venture-capital firm specialising in the commercialisation of early-stage technologies, today formed Apical Technology, a portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Advanced by Ron St Onge and Jim St Onge, Apical is the result of nearly 20 years
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) has launched PAAMCO Alternative Beta, the latest tool in the firm’s suite of institutional liquid alpha solutions. PAAMCO Alternative Beta offers a portfolio of alternative risk premia diversified across strategies, asset classes and implementations. It
Barnes & Noble is to be acquired by funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (Elliott) for USD6.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD683 million, including the assumption of debt. Elliott’s acquisition of Barnes & Noble,
Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an investment management firm specialising in value-driven alternative credit, has surpassed USD10 billion in assets under management across its platform of public funds, private funds and separately managed accounts. In addition, the firm also holds one
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for July 2019 measured 0.42 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.38 per cent in August. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for
LRI Group, an independent investment services company, has partnered with QC Partners to launch its VolatilityIncome fund. QC Partners, a Frankfurt based asset management company, has launched the fund in response to the current market environment, with derivative markets signalling
RMB Asset Management, in partnership with Mendon Capital, has launched a new global long/short financial strategy. The new strategy requires a minimum investment of USD250,000 and is an extension of Mendon’s current US financial strategy, which is also offered in
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.55 per cent in July, underperforming the 0.77 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark generated 2.18 per cent in January. This is the strongest start to a calendar year since 2013 (+3.49 per cent) and the highest return in a single calendar month since July 2016 (+2.24 per
