Institutional investors performing due diligence on Asia-Pacific focused hedge funds may be best served homing in on long/short equity and macro strategies. That's according to a recent report from Cambridge Associates, Investing in Asian Hedge Funds: Opportunities and Challenges, which
Natixis Global Asset Management is funding a three-year, USD1 million research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on investor behaviour and personal benchmarks. The research will be led by Andrew W Lo, Charles E and Susan T
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, is to acquire Mercury Capital Advisors (Mercury), an institutional capital raising and investment advisory enterprises. As part of the transaction, Mercury will remain an independent business operating under its current
Artificial Intelligence-powered hedge fund, Castle Ridge Asset Management Limited (Castle Ridge), has secured a strategic investment from Canaccord Genuity Group (Canaccord Genuity), a global financial services firm that specialises in wealth management and capital markets. The investment will enable Castle
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made a strategic investment in alternative investments platform iCapital Network.
International capital markets software firm genesis has completed a Series A financing round, securing a total of USD3 million from Illuminate Financial, a UK-based capital markets venture capital firm, and Tribeca Angels, a New York venture group.

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Private equity firm Corsair Capital (Corsair) has made a majority investment in ZEDRA Group (ZEDRA), a specialist in trust, corporate and fund services. Corsair has a long and successful track record of growing financial services firms across a diverse range
EDBI, a global Asian-based Investor, is now a Pico investor and strategic partner. Pico provides transparent, low-latency financial markets solutions. Instant access to financial markets is provided via PicoNet, a globally comprehensive network platform instrumented natively with Corvil analytics and telemetry. Its
Walter Global Asset Management (WGAM), the Walter Group’s private equity firm focused on asset management, has acquired a minority stake in Quadra Capital Partners (Quadra Capital) – an asset management firm specialising in alternative investments, with offices in London, Paris
Risk concentration in investor portfolios has been building in a prevailing ‘risk-on’ environment, leading to substantial growth in global equity markets over the past decade. There are numerous reasons for this, led principally by the decisive action of central bankers
