The average return of the global hedge fund industry was pulled into negative territory in February as markets experienced sharp reversals, with trend following CTA/managed futures and long/short equities strategies lagging behind the pack. That’s according to the latest figures
Trend following hedge fund managers gained ground in July following a patchy first half of 2020, notching up their best monthly performance so far this year by capitalising on soaring gold prices and emerging trends against the US dollar.
Alternative investments specialist Investcorp has partnered with Shoals Capital Management (Shoals), which currently manages approximately USD160 million in an event driven strategy investing across capital structure and sub-sectors in the financials sector. Investcorp and other institutional investors, including a large
Alter Domus, a fund and corporate services provider is now able to offer third party Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) services following its acquisition of Luxembourg Fund Partners, a Super Manco with Chapter 15 (UCITS) and AIFM authorisations. Founded in
Systematic investment manager Aspect Capital has extended its range of funds available to investors with the launch of the lower fee, lower volatility Aspect Core Trend Fund. The fund, which started trading on 13 September, has received approximately USD100 million
Hathersage Capital Management LLC, a global macro investment manager specialising in G10 currencies and absolute returns, has been named Best Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund at the 2018 Hedgeweek Global awards ceremony in London. This is the third consecutive year Hathersage
AlphaClone, a provider of alpha-seeking active indexes for long-term investors, has launched the AlphaClone Small Cap Index and AlphaClone Value Manager Index. The indices seek to give investors the potential to outperform passive market indices by accessing the investment ideas
Hedge Funds lost 1.53 per cent in February according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, versus a 3.69 per cent decline in the S&P 500 Total Return Index. Year to date, the Barclay Index remains up 0.52 per cent,
Since the trough of the recent sell-off, L/S Equity funds have outperformed other hedge fund strategies, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Their cautious stance since the end of January led them to partially
SS&C Technologies Holdings is to acquire CACEIS North America, the fund administration business of CACEIS based in Toronto and New York. The acquisition, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018.
