With the ESG juggernaut gathering pace in financial markets, how hedge funds traverse short-selling challenges, tech advances, and the data “wild west” will be key to unlocking future returns. Long seen as the preserve of traditional long-only buy-and-hold strategies, impact
About a third of hedge funds invest in ESG-dedicated strategies leading to investment demand being considered a ‘primary driver’ in improving ESG, research from BNP Paribas shows. One-fifth of investors plan to increase this in 2022 and a further 23
Some 155 companies will be at risk of activist attacks in the next 18 months, according to the findings of global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe in 2022.
As governments strive to meet sustainability targets, the global push for more formalised ESG standards and frameworks is bringing challenges – as well as opportunities – for hedge funds amid a fractured regulatory landscape. With the climate emergency increasingly at
Hedge funds again outperformed the S&P Total Return Index in April, despite losing 2.66%, bringing the year-to-date loss to -5.55%, according to BarclayHedge.
All major hedge fund strategies have seen overall inflows in the first quarter of 2022, according to a report from Pensions & Investments. Hedge funds had total inflows of $19.8 billion in the first quarter, the highest level since the
Some of the most popular hedge funds have plummetted in value by -26.4% YTD, according to a report from CNBC.
More than four in five fund managers (83%) agree that they can leverage blockchain technology to grow their markets as financial services become more transparent, new global research from digital assets marketplace Token City shows.
April was a difficult month in the financial markets, with the aggregate industry return at -1.68% for the month, dragging year to date (YTD) returns further into the red at -2.59%, according to the April 2022 eVestment hedge fund performance
A recent report from IG Prime has found only 15% of senior management team members in hedge funds are women across the globe.
