Baring Asset Management, which was among the first wave of managers to be awarded a global fixed-income 130-30 mandate by CalPERS in June, believes that relaxing long-only constraints can
Investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars when two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed in August are joining forces to replace Bear Stearns affiliates and designees as managing par
New Star Asset Management is making a fourth offering of Hedge ETS, a London listed daily tradable security.
Assets invested with hedge fund firms could more than double by 2016, according to a just-released survey from Citi Prime Finance. The study finds that pension funds, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors are increasingly embracing the risk management and
Hedge funds in Morningstar’s database returned an average of 2.44 per cent over the third quarter of this year, outperforming the S&P 500 and MSCI World indices in US dollar terms afte
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index fell for a second straight month, finishing down 3.20% in September versus a monthly loss of 9.88% for the Dow Jones Global Index. Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index Co, LLC,
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.75% in October as the hedge fund industry rebounded. Year-to-date performance as of October 2011 is down 5.85%. The top performing strategies over the month were Lyxor L/S Equity Long Bias Index (+5.59%),
Nearly 1/3 of all financial advisors who sell alternative investments (AI) predict that Multi-Strategy and Managed Futures strategies have the greatest potential over the next 12 months, according to a new report released by Cogent Research. By contrast, providers offering
Hedge fund redemptions in October totalled USD9 billion, more than triple September’s USD2.59 billion outflow, according to figures released by BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. Industry assets decreased to USD1.66 trillion in October from USD1.73 trillion in September, the third
Kodak Retirement Income Plan (KRIP) is the seed investor for AlphaEngine Global Investment’s SMART Alpha investment program, an absolute return strategy that focuses on generating strong absolute returns, especially during periods when equity beta and typical absolute return strategies struggle
