The Hedgeweek Global Awards 2014 event, sponsored by Lyxor Asset Management and held at the end of February, featured winners from across the hedge funds spectrum who gathered in London’s Mayfair to celebrate a year of illustrious achievement. In her
Last year was a good one for London-based Dalton Strategic Partnership. While most managers struggled to raise capital, the firm was able to hard-close both the Melchior European Fund (MEF), an offshore Cayman fund, and the Melchior Selected Trust: European
European mutual funds are increasingly driving short-term volatility in credit markets, as they have increased their investments in credit assets to approximately EUR1trn at the end of 2010, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. Although European insurance companies
High levels of volatility in local and global equity markets that have continued into the fourth quarter of 2011 as a result of the European debt crisis, have once again highlighted the diversification benefits that local hedge funds can bring
Hedge funds took in a net USD430m (0.02 per cent of assets) in April, building on an inflow of USD817m in March, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs. The results are based on data from 3,393 funds. The industry
Edhec-Risk Institute has launched a risk and investment management programme after a survey found that further education was needed to close the gap between real-word practice and research. The Executive MSc in Risk and Investment Management will provide experienced practitioners
Asset managers and investment specialists taking part in a Camradata roundtable believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis will be fully integrated into investment management by the end of the current decade. While there were differences of opinion
Arnaud Chrétien (former quantitative manager for the sovereign fund Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and later the Global CTA desk at SGAM AI) has created Aequam Capital, an independent, quantitative fund management company. The first company to be incubated by the
The proportion of UK-based investment professionals who believe that developed market equities are overvalued has doubled in the last 12 months, according to the CFA UK Valuations Index. The most recent publication of the CFA Society of the UK’s
LGT Capital Partnershas been awarded a GBP100 million multi-alternatives mandate from Kingfisher Pension Scheme. The mandate is focused exclusively on alternative investments and includes hedge funds, commodities, insurance-linked securities, property, private equity and other alternative asset classes. Roberto Paganoni, CEO
