Naysayers of the world’s reserve currency forget its potential as an asset in what are still crisis conditions, says RWC Diversified Returns Fund Manager Clark Fenton.As aggressive fiscal and monetary policies mean risk is shifting from private to government balance
CAMRADATA, a provider of data and analysis for institutional investors, has released a white paper ‘Where lies the future of Multi Asset Credit?’ which the company compiled following a roundtable event with leading asset managers and investors held in June
The euro could be set to appreciate against the US dollar, says London-based global equities hedge fund Russell Clark Investment Management. Russell Clark’s contrarian long/short firm, known for its bearish calls in global stock markets, believes that recent data on
Activist hedge funds often push the management teams they target to pursue a sale of the company, which is the only reliable strategy for generating a return for themselves and the shareholders of the companies they target. This is according
PortfolioScience, a provider of on-demand risk management systems, has released a new set of analytics aimed at energy derivatives. Working with Stamford, CT-based Harbour Square Capital Management, a hedge fund focusing on natural gas trading, PortfolioScience has developed Volatility-Adjusted Futures,
The hedge fund industry turned in a fourth consecutive positive month in July as stock markets’ continued strong performance contributed to a 2.76 per cent return, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop
The Alternative Investment Management Association has launched a new initiative aimed at improving transparency around diversity and inclusion within the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry. Hedge fund industry trade group AIMA, in partnership with investment consultancy Albourne Partners,
With 60 working days before the MiFID II implementation deadline, RSRCHXchange, the research aggregator and marketplace, has launched its latest version of RSRCHX including mobile and desktop apps and a range of new research management functionality. In addition, the RSRCHX
By Jeremy Lang, partner and co-founder of Ardevora Asset Management – Humans are notoriously poor at forming subjective probabilities – the mind prefers dealing with absolutes: ‘yes’ or ‘no’. We are also very susceptible to anchoring when forming our views. The
The size of the global private credit market is on course to break the USD1 trillion mark by 2020, according to research by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Dechert,
