The hedge fund industry took in USD5.1bn (0.3 per cent of assets) in August, reversing a USD9.2bn outflow (0.5 per cent of assets) in July, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. Based on data from 2,999 funds, the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for September 2012 measured 1.11 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.67 per cent in October. "Inflows have remained steady,
By Simon Gray – A perfect storm of factors over the past four years has upended many of the traditional assumptions of asset managers, particularly those active in the alternative investment field, about how their business should be organised. The
Most people have quite a clear attitude towards losing money from their investments – that they don’t like it – and for good reason. However, investors are urged not to attempt to avoid short-term losses by trying to time the
Oak Hill Advisors has held the final closing of its OHA European Strategic Credit Fund, a credit fund focused on distressed debt and corporate restructurings in Europe. The fund closed at its cap of USD1.35bn, significantly exceeding the firm’s initial
US-dollar prime money market funds (MMFs) have increased their total exposure to European financial institutions by 16 per cent (USD27bn) in the first two months of Q3 2013, says Moody’s Investors Service. Most of this increase is due to
By Simon Gray – Never has there been so much discussion in the industry about the redomiciliation of funds from offshore to onshore financial centres, especially within the European Union, in order to meet the preferences of institutional investors cagy
By James Williams – EXANTE is a unique integrated trading and fund platform offering whose genesis grew out of a challenge faced by its five managing partners. All of them came from a trading background and shared a similar evolutionary
In light of the current fiscal and monetary concerns that are gripping the minds of investors around the world, Institutional Asset Manager asked the heads of some of the world’s leading asset managers to share their thinking on portfolio management
“We really like risk-on risk-off markets. I personally think this is going to continue for some time yet. The eurozone issue is not going to be solved imminently and I expect to see a lot of volatility in the future,”
