In this exclusive excerpt from Preqin's forthcoming 2016 Global Hedge Fund Report, due out in January, we take a closer look at how the hedge fund industry has changed over the course of 2015.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Hedgeweek end of year editorial report: Reflections on 2015. We are excited to bring to you, our readers, what we hope will be the first of many such annual reports. In this first
Cloud computing has reached a tipping point, with capabilities and cost efficiencies exceeding those achieved via in-house data centres, according to a white paper from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). In the paper, “Moving Financial Market Infrastructure
Fees across several asset classes have fallen, with global active equity fees down 8 per cent (24 per cent for low volatility), smart beta fees down 25 per cent, fund of hedge fund fees down 20 per cent (30 per
Average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book in July stood at EUR6,193 million in July, a fall of 21.7 per cent compared to July 2015. Activity on ETFs continued to show strong resilience despite the general downturn
The global private credit market, an alternative source of financing for small and medium sized enterprises, is flourishing with institutional capital supporting increased lending in Europe in particular, according to a report by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) and Deloitte.
Hedge fund managers are continually reviewing their relationships with fund administrators, fund custodians, prime brokers, fund auditors, fund marketers and law firms to ensure that they are getting the services they need. A quarter of all hedge fund managers surveyed
Banks are battling the rising cost of running their bond businesses by increasingly favouring a riskless-principal or order-driving trading model that leaves the responsibility to determine the best price for a bond increasingly shifting to pre-trade and real-time price modelling,
Hedge fund and private equity managers are split on whether considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) is beneficial to their businesses, according to a survey by boutique asset manager Unigestion. The survey suggests ESG is growing in importance for hedge
Independent fund research company Fitz Partners gives an insight into the calculations of funds’ performance fees and their choice of benchmarks in the latest edition of its Performance Fee Benchmarking Report and Database. Hugues Gillibert (pictured), chief executive officer of
