A new report from iCapital Network has revealed a bullish attitude amongst senior advisors towards alternative investments for the coming year. Currently, 34 per cent of those advisors surveyed about their appetite and future plans for alternative investments have at
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index registered its strongest outperformance relative to underlying markets since October 2008, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index by 9.22 per cent in March.Long volatility and tail risk hedge funds topped the performance tables for Q1
Institutional investors in the UK and Continental Europe are boosting allocations to alternative income assets, such as infrastructure debt and equity, structured finance, real estate finance and private corporate debt, in the pursuit of stronger risk-adjusted returns and diversification. That’s
IOWArocks has added Marex Spectron into its rapidly expanding community of content creators and content consumers. Marex Spectron is a commodity broker, providing its global client base with an unrivalled breadth of coverage in metals, energy, and agricultural markets. Paul Watmough,
Virtual data room provider Intralinks has released the initial results of its 2018 LP Survey which, among other things, found that nearly two-thirds of the limited partners (LPs) queried expect to increase their allocations to alternative investments in 2018. “The
The Interactive Brokers Group has become one of the first brokerage companies to commit to in-depth monitoring of securities globally, following its deployment of the SIX Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service (SSMS).The service, deployed in two waves between April 2019 (standard
Xignite, a provider of market data distribution and management solutions for financial services and technology companies, has secured a patent for methodology that provides real-time user alerts based on defined stock market conditions. The patented technology is used in Xignite’s CloudAlerts
Founders’ share classes – which offer special terms to early bird investors in hedge funds – appear to be in decline, as investors become more selective in their allocations and managers potentially opt for more bespoke offerings, a new industry
Total assets under management for the alternative assets industry in Europe reached a record EUR1.48 trillion as of September 2017, according to a new report from Amundi and Preqin. Growth has been driven by strong inflows of capital: Europe-focused private
Exchange turnover in investment products and leverage products on Europe’s financial markets were up at the end of the first quarter of 2018, according to an analysis by Derivative Partners AG of the latest market data collected by the European
