Future rises in the cost of natural gas following the recent oil price crash may squeeze utility companies’ profits, with US names potentially proving a lucrative short bet for hedge funds. Horseman Capital Management, the London-based contrarian long/short manager led
As manager of Cheyne Capital’s Thematic Long/Short Fund, Richard Woolf (pictured) brings what he describes as a “healthy dose of scepticism” to his portfolio management style and trading approach.
Pricing dislocations across a broad range of industries and geographies, coupled with an increasingly fragmented macroeconomic landscape stemming from divergent emergency central bank measures, will throw up a wealth of investment opportunities for macro, equity and credit hedge fund strategies
Lansdowne Partners, the long-running London-based hedge fund firm, is restructuring its flagship Developed Markets Fund to focus solely on long-only investments, and will no longer employ short-selling in the strategy, in a major shift in focus for the high-profile manager.
The current environment is playing to the strengths of special situation hedge fund strategies, which seek to generate alpha from announced deals, and as merger spreads widen out, new opportunities are arising. This is according to Wayne Yu (pictured), the
With notable dispersion in high yield in 2019, CQS and BlueBay Asset Management see further upside as energy and automotive sectors respond to technology disruption… High yield credit will likely present further idiosyncratic opportunities in 2020 thanks to elevated dispersion
Tullow Oil, the London-listed oil and gas explorer shorted by several major hedge funds, has seen a further slump in its share price this week. Tullow shares dipped from 45.81pp on Friday to 43pp on Monday, following the announcement it
Hedge funds are continuing to bet against Europe’s travel industry, with several brand-name managers growing their shorts in travel staples such as EasyJet and TUI, amid concerns the fallout from the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak could impact the continent’s tourism sector.
Metronome Capital, the London-based long/short equity manager led by former Lehman Brothers banker and Parvus Asset Management partner Sharif el Khazen, is flying high – powered by a mix of long conviction trades in European luxury brand names and a
Traditionally, allocators and investors often eschewed smaller, specialist hedge funds in favour of the firepower offered by larger brand-name managers. But as many smaller funds have posted outsized gains in recent years – while well-established marquee names experienced decidedly mixed performances
