Investors continued to allocate new capital to the hedge fund industry in quarter two, exhibiting a clear and continued preference for strategies with characteristically low exposure to global equity markets, according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report.
By Michael Sanders – When Alceda Fund Management was established in 2007, Luxembourg was already a well-recognised fund domicile, so the choice was relatively straightforward. Now, with more than 3,800 investment funds and net assets of nearly EUR2.1bn, Luxembourg is
“Delivering sustainable value” lies at the heart of the investment philosophy at Wermuth Asset Management, a German family investment firm co-founded by Jochen Wermuth and Dr Dieter Wermuth with principal offices in Wiesbaden and Moscow. In 2003, WAM opened up
Hedge funds posted gains in September with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up 0.96 per cent and the HFRX Market Directional Index up 2.23 per cent. The HFRX Event Driven Index posted a gain of 2.10 per cent
The GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for July 2012 measured 2.18 per cent, down from 3.71 per cent in June. "Forward redemptions remain low, this month’s percentage being one of the lowest in the history of the Indicator,” says Bill Stone,
Dr Anton Dudoukin and Dmitry Dudoukin are partners in Courant Asset Management Ltd. Courant Asset Management is the managing company of Courant Fund. Current Fund’s AUM is USD28.7million. Courant Fund is an equity long/short strategy that uses systematic short-term trading
“I hope our fund will be the first hedge fund to take advantage of using Bitcoins,” explains Anatoliy Knyazev in Moscow. One of Exante’s managing partners, Knyazev confirms that the firm is currently in the process of structuring the fund,
Entrepreneur Partners has launched its second long/short hedge fund on its platform, the Trias L/S Fund. The fund will apply macroeconomic and fundamental stock analysis to a universe of liquid German, Austrian and Swiss companies. The strategy encompasses event-driven, momentum
Paskewitz Asset Management has listed its S&P Contrarian Program as a TransparentFund on AlphaMetrix, an online marketplace for private investments. As a TransparentFund, the Paskewitz S&P Contrarian Program is now visible to the AlphaMetrix network. Paskewitz will retain its existing
“I like to describe ourselves at Platinum Partners as entrepreneurial traders. We select and promote entrepreneurs who have an understanding of how to structure transactions in a way that caps the limit to the downside while giving us all kinds
