The upcoming US elections and the possibility of a rate shift in the UK and Europe could present hedge funds with alpha hunting opportunities, writes Hedgeweek Editor-in-Chief, James Williams… The last decade was dominated by sustained central bank intervention, giving
Eiger Advisors – a UK-regulated business assisting alternative and traditional asset management businesses – and Investeam – an established, Paris-based third-party manager – have announced a new commercial partnership. The partnership will support UK based fund managers wishing to access
Link Asset Services, part of Link Group, a provider of financial administration services, has made a strategic investment in Leveris Limited (Leveris). Leveris is a financial technology company headquartered in Ireland with core expertise in banking and financial services. Leveris
Intercontinental Exchange has acquired the remaining equity of MERSCORP Holding, owner of Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems, (MERS). ICE has owned a majority equity interest in MERS since 2016. The price and terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and
Far fewer active fund managers outperformed their benchmarks in 2018, according to an analysis of 15 key equity and bond fund segments by Scope. In fact, under a quarter of active equity funds beat benchmarks in 2018 and just 16
Troy Hottenstein joined RG Capital Management in early October to pursue event-driven opportunities with RG Capital Management’s strategies. RG Capital Management i
Standard & Poor’s, the financial research, ratings and indices group, has launched the S&P Hedge Fund Index and three style sub-indices. The S&P Hedge Fund Index comprises 40 funds representing nine distinct hedge fund investment strategies grouped into three broad
Hedge funds posted mixed performance for September as US bonds yields increased, with strategy gains led by fixed income- based Relative Value Arbitrage, while Macro Currency led sub-strategy performance as the US Dollar gained against the Japanese Yen. The HFRI
Optimal Asset Management has launched a direct indexing service for institutional investors and investment advisors. The indices available for direct indexing are S&P Dow Jones Indices’ flagship S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600 and select factor indices. Since
Barclays Capital and Signet Capital Management are launching a bond offering access to a diversified, multi-manager, multi-strategy fund of hedge funds. Performance
