With a strong contribution from equity hedge strategies, hedge funds posted a gain for November, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index up 0.26 per cent. Sovereign credit risk was again a focus for investors in the month of November,
Yorkville Advisors HK, a wholly owned sub-adviser to the US-based Yorkville Advisors, has officially launched its Asia Pacific head office in Hong Kong.
Nasdaq OMX will expand the real time latency measurement service provided by Correlix to its Nordic marketplaces. The service will allow Nasdaq OMX Nordic exchanges’ members access to independent real-time latency measurement information for intraday and post-day analytics. The Correlix
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 0.2 per cent in November and is up 7.0 per cent year-to-date. The S&P 500 declined 0.2 per cent (+5.9 per cent YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.0 per cent (+5.5 per
Ghadir Abu Leil Cooper (pictured), Investment Manager, Baring MENA Fund and Matthias Siller, Investment Manager, Baring Russia Fund, summarise the investment implications of FIFA’s decision to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar respectively. FIFA’s decision
Four months after Bernard Madoff admitted to defrauding thousands of investors of an amount that, including non-existent profits, could total as much as USD65bn, the ripples of the scandal
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has agreed to purchase a 55 per cent stake in Claren Road, a long-short credit hedge fund with USD4.5bn in assets under management, in exchange for cash, an ownership interest in Carlyle and performance-based
The hedge fund industry posted an estimated inflow of USD16.0bn (1.0 per cent of assets) in October 2010, the fourth straight inflow as well as the heaviest since November 2009, according to data from TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge. “Flows
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 0.78 per cent in November and is up 3.49 per cent year-to-date. The top performing strategies over the month were Lyxor Distressed Securities Index (+1.17 per cent), Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+0.78
Performance amongst quantitative equity managers has been somewhat mixed so far this year, but the upbeat results of Sabre Fund Management’s Style Arbitrage Fund reflect the firm’s trie
