As hedge funds focused on Europe and North America labour to achieve lackluster returns, the attention of managers, allocators and investors is turn
Recently, hedge funds have been reporting mixed results.
Due to the lacklustre performance in the equity and debt markets in recent years, investments in hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles are becoming increasingly attractive to retirement plan trustees and investment committees. At the same time, fund managers
The Hennessee Long/Short Equity Index advanced 1.81 per cent in July after the US equity markets experienced their best month in a year on better-than-expected corporate earnings. The top performing sectors were materials (+12.2 per cent), industrials (+10.3 per cent)
Specialist Asia-Pacific fund manager Chirin Capital is about to launch the Chirin Asia Absolute Alpha Fund, a Dublin-domiciled Ucits III fund that will invest in Asian markets excluding Ja
Terra Partners Group, the investment manager of the frontier market-focused Worldwide Opportunity Fund (Cayman), has retained SS&C Fund Services to administer the fund’s A and CEF classes of shares. In the past 12 months Terra Partners has witnessed an increase
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) and Addventa have agreed a partnership to launch a service for automated drafting of portfolio management commentaries based on artificial intelligence solutions. Management companies, who are SGSS clients, will benefit from an automated and instant
The hedge fund industry is starting to witness a growing trend in outsourcing front-office trading desk operations. Start-up hedge funds in particular benefit from outsourcing if they lack sufficient capital to build out their own in-house trading desk, and this
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index closed up 1.02% in July as six of the seven index component strategies reported positive results for July. The top perfuming strategy was managed futures (3.26%) while Fixed income arbitrage (-0.57%)
By Jose Santamaria,Head of Institutional Sales and Relationship Management, Channel Islands Royal Bank of Canada, Global Private Banking The market for hedge funds and fund of hedge funds s
