Axiom Alternative Investments, an independent asset manager specialising in European financial stocks has expanded its fund offering with the launch of a new long-short equity strategy – Axiom Long Short Equity – which will be managed by Antonio Roman.
Astignes Capital Asia Pte, a Singapore-based hedge fund firm focused on macro and relative value investments in the Asia-Pacific region, is opening its new Astignes Systematic RV Macro Fund to outside investors from April, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Activist hedge funds have ramped up their campaigns at South Korean companies with 77 businesses targeted last year compared with just eight in 2019, marking a tenfold increase in activity according to a report by Chosun.
Oil trader Pierre Andurand’s riskiest hedge fund, the Andurand Commodities Discretionary Enhanced hedge fund, has bounced back following a record 55% loss in 2023, gaining 20% so far this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Systematic hedge funds, which employ algorithms to identify investable market trends, have significantly outperformed other fund strategies during the first quarter of the year, according to a report by MarketGuru.
A resurgence of investor interest in natural resources has prompted Kimura Capital, a London-based provider of trade finance credit for commodities, to start a new commodity-focused hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds continued to provide investors with positive returns in February with funds administered by Citco delivering an overall weighted average return of 2% over the month, to give them a YTD weighted average return of 3.5%.
Goldman Sachs Group’s asset management arm has raised over $700m in capital commitments for Union Bridge Partners I, a new opportunistic co-investment strategy that will focus on making investments alongside hedge funds and private credit firms.
Global allocators upped their alternative asset allocations – private equity, credit, real estate, real assets, infrastructure and hedge funds – to $172bn in 2023 a 19% increase from the $144bn seen in the previous year, according to a research commissioned
On-chain digital asset management platform Hashnote has partnered with CoinDesk Indices to launch the Hashnote CoinDesk 20 Fund, which tracks the global digital asset benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index.
