Evanston Capital Management has published a white paper examining methods of evaluating performance for hedge funds and other investments. Hedge funds are often criticised within the investment community for poor performance compared to the S&P 500. However, such a comparison
The Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management Report 2011 published earlier this year found that HNWIs, at the end of 2010, were allocating 33 per cent of their portfolios into equities. The S&P 500 Index gained around 11 per cent, whilst
Compushare and Advanced Fund Administration (AFA) have announced a partnership whereby AFA clients will have access to Compushare, Inc’s full suite of technology based solutions including the firm’s fully hosted cloud computing platform, which allows the funds to eliminate technology
A majority of PENSCO clients would invest more in non-traded, alternative assets if they had a better understanding of the alternatives available (71 per cent) and more accessibility to non-traded alternatives (70 per cent). The finding is based on a
US futures exchange volumes increased sharply in September 2014, bringing year-to-date volume to 2.3 billion contracts, according to TABB Group. However, the year-to-date total is 2.5 per cent lower than the same period a year earlier. During Q3 2014,
According to Lok Yim (pictured), Head of North Asia Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank, there was a big shift out of equities into fixed income instruments back in June amongst the bank’s Asian HNW clients. The mentality of Asian HNWIs
John Redwood (pictured), Chairman of Evercore Pan Asset’s Investment Committee, on the effect of the Euro crisis on world markets… These are savage markets. As we feared, the markets continue to worry about the Euro crisis. More are concluding that
The number of alternative and multi-asset fund launches have increased 15 per cent since 2010, according to research from Cerulli Associates. "The market crisis was highly disruptive, temporarily halting new product introductions as budgets were slashed, but in the longer
London-based credit specialist Cairn Capital Limited is launching a Subordinated Financials Fund. The Fund is expected to launch on 3 October and has around EUR45 million (GBP39 million) of committed seed capital. Seed capital is coming from two of
Morten Spenner (pictured), CEO of International Asset Management (IAM) the GBP2.8bn Fund of Hedge Funds, challenges the recent loss of faith in hedge funds and argues that they are now back doing exactly what investors expect of them… Recently, hedge
