There are a number of different reasons for why investors wish to allocate to emerging managers. They might be looking for more performance from emerging managers because they are less constrained by overcrowded trades in the markets, or simply wish
It is fair to say that Sigma Analysis & Management, based in Toronto, takes a uniquely quant-focused approach to the way it operates managed accounts. Founded in 1999 by Professor Luis Seco, director of the Masters of Mathematical Finance programme
There is often a natural gap between the risk profiles that hedge funds want to produce, and what institutional clients want to buy. As such, there can be a different psychological view as to what a hedge fund represents to
LumX Group Limited (LumX), who has been developing and managing alternative investment programmes for over 25 years, is in the process of redomiciling the LumMap managed account platform, from Jersey to Ireland. The purpose of this is to extend the platform’s
Next year, Lyxor Asset Management, one of Europe’s leading managed account platform providers, celebrates its 20th anniversary. Over that time, it has seen, and responded to, changing market dynamics. More recently, this has meant focusing on building out a larger
With market volatility always top of investors’ minds, the ability to assume greater control over a particular investment strategy using a managed account structure has grown in significance in the last few years. With markets due a correction, and investors
Investcorp-Tages has launched a new systematic short-term UCITS fund with Eckhardt Trading Company (ETC) with USD115 million in AUM, seeded by Quilter Investors.
Tages Capital’s Luxembourg domiciled range of UCITS absolute return funds has been added to the Allfunds Bank fund distribution network. The funds will be immediately available to Allfunds’ clients in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and will also
Total hedge fund assets increased to USD3.245 trillion in the second quarter of the year, narrowly eclipsing the previous record level of USD3.244 trillion in Q3 2018, according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report. Led by a strong Q1 recovery from
By A Paris – This year will be forever remembered as the one which saw a global pandemic taking over the world, widespread travel restrictions and significant market volatility. But in Singapore, 2020 can be considered in a more favourable light.
