PivotalPath’s analysis shows managed futures and macro commodities thriving in high oil environments, but allocators heading into 2026 had other priorities.
Fee discounts and most-favoured nation clauses now feature in almost half of all side letters within the hedge fund industry according to a new study by Seward & Kissel, which also found that the number of smaller, newer managers using
Increasingly frequent spikes in the VIX volatility index could offer hedge funds and other investment managers strong return opportunities amid the resulting equity market gyrations, new analysis published by Man Group suggests.
Maso Capital, an event driven and convertible arbitrage-focused hedge fund based in Hong Kong, was established in 2012 by Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana, who previously managed money for Och-Ziff’s Asia-focused strategies.
Investors poured more than USD7 billion of new capital into hedge funds globally in October, the strongest capital inflows recorded in more than a decade for what is a traditionally quiet month for industry coffers – but there are warnings
CTAs and trend-following hedge funds have seen their recent advance halted, as anxieties over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 punctured market momentum towards the end of last month.
In the highly competitive hedge fund community, the most productive use of information and data drives success. Managers must efficiently collect and process data to ensure its accuracy. The old saying, “GIGO” (garbage in-garbage out) is a constant risk. This
This year’s hedgeweekLIVE European Emerging Managers Summit concluded with a wide-ranging panel discussion centred on fundraising, with speakers examining some of the ways start-up hedge funds can successfully attract investor money during the challenging capital-raising process.
The Cayman Islands remains the gold standard jurisdiction for start-up and emerging hedge funds when it comes to legal and fund structuring considerations, offering a “tried and tested” environment for new launches, according to speakers on the opening panel of
The sweeping changes and far-reaching trade upheaval brought about by Brexit and Covid-19 heralds sizable investment opportunities for hedge fund managers, according to a new study by IG Prime. The report – ‘An Analysis of Post-Brexit Economies’ – examines the
