Algebris Investments is seizing on opportunities in strong, strategically important companies globally that are benefitting from government support during the downturn, as central banks “drop all their taboos” to support the global economy. Portfolio manager Alberto Gallo, who runs the
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman’s “very negative view” and “good sense of timing” powered the firm’s stellar USD2.6 billion gain last month but the high-profile activist hedge fund manager does not fear a protracted 1930s-style depression as a result of
By A Paris – Last year was challenging for hedge fund managers. Although the market registered a dimension of recovery, regulation and fee pressure continued to ramp up while performance did not always to live up to expectations. However, hedge fund managers
Hedge fund managers were down 4.40 per cent in March, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index IMI (Local) by 9.59 per cent during the month – a level of outperformance unseen since October 2008. Long volatility-focused strategies, CTA/managed futures and AI
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,
Agecroft Partners has chosen four non-profit organisations to be the primary beneficiaries of the Gaining the Edge – 2018 Hedge Fund Investor Leadership Conference, which will take place in New York City on 5-6 November 2018. The four primary beneficiaries
Starting in April, Solactive is to make a wide range of its benchmark indices will be made available on C8 Technologies’ platform. Different kinds of investors, such as asset owners, asset managers, and hedge funds can all implement them in their
Singapore-based companies CACHE, a provider of fully-redeemable digital assets backed by gold, and Onchain Custodian, a digital assets custody service provider backed by Fosun, Sequoia and DHVC, have formed a strategic partnership to enable the insured safekeeping of gold-backed tokens. Onchain
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -6.33 per cent in March, underperforming the -5.88 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
Specialist insurance provider, CFC, has launched its first insurance solution for financial institutions. CFC’s Investment Management Insurance (IMI) policy is the first in a suite of products designed to address the challenging risk environment faced by investment managers. Combining its
