Hedge fund short sellers took a hefty beating in what proved to be a bruising July, losing some USD6 billion across a range of strong-performing technology stocks, including more than USD4 billion from Tesla shorts alone. New data from Ortex
Pictet Asset Management, the investment management arm of the Geneva-headquartered wealth management giant Pictet Group, has unveiled a new market neutral global equity hedge fund which trades liquid US and European stocks, with a low correlation to broader equity markets.
Alberto Gallo, head of macro strategies at multi-strategy credit and equities hedge fund Algebris Investments, has compared investors in government bonds to “boiling frogs” who risk seeing their returns “wiped out” from future inflation rises. As government bonds increasingly offer
Prime Capital AG, an independent asset manager and financial services provider that manages EUR17.2bn across multiple funds, has launched the Liquid Alternative Credit Fund.This new fund of funds will be pooling alternative credit strategies like trade finance and real estate
The immediate outlook for hedge funds is “very bright”, with elevated volatility at an “optimal” level for macro and relative value strategies in particular, JP Morgan Asset Management’s alternatives team said this week. Jamie Kramer, managing director and head of
Established in 2004, HITE Hedge Asset Management is an alpha-focused energy specialist hedge fund firm which trades a range of energy-related securities throughout the entire carbon value chain.
R G Niederhoffer Capital Management, the New York-based quantitative trading advisor that employs a short-term contrarian investment strategy, has launched an alternative UCITS version of its flagship fund on Kepler Partners’ KLS UCITS platform. Kepler Liquid Strategies was established in
Man Group has seen its funds under management tumble 8 per cent this year, as investment performance took a hit and investor redemptions spiked during the coronavirus crisis – but CEO Luke Ellis says the London-headquartered publicly-traded hedge fund group
Equiom has acquired HF Fund Services Ltd, a provider of non-executive independent directors to alternative investment funds and investment management companies which was founded in 2007 by Sean Flynn and Patrick Harrigan.
Hedge fund short sellers could soon be circling the troubled Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk, after Polygon Global Partners built a sizeable short bet in the London-listed company, which is facing major governance issues.
