Hedge funds posted mixed performance for September as US bonds yields increased, with strategy gains led by fixed income- based Relative Value Arbitrage, while Macro Currency led sub-strategy performance as the US Dollar gained against the Japanese Yen. The HFRI
Optimal Asset Management has launched a direct indexing service for institutional investors and investment advisors. The indices available for direct indexing are S&P Dow Jones Indices’ flagship S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600 and select factor indices. Since
Barclays Capital and Signet Capital Management are launching a bond offering access to a diversified, multi-manager, multi-strategy fund of hedge funds. Performance
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for August 2018 measured 2.73 per cent, up from 2.40 per cent in July. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for August 2018 of 2.73 per cent was a very strong result for the hedge fund industry,
Newly-authorised investment manager AlphaTran Capital has launched a global long/short equity fund with a value and large capitalisation bias.
AMSYS Capital has launched its first Digital Asset Fund, an actively-managed fund designed to hedge against the volatility of the crypto-currency market. AMSYS says the fund will leverage the ecosystem of its advisory companies – Amsys Innovative Solutions (a 15
Fortis has made a series of appointments to its fund services and prime brokerage divisions. In New York, Michael J.
Tiger Bay Advisors, a provider of consulting and business process outsourcing (BPO) services to asset managers, has completed its acquisition of Gramercy Park Advisors, a boutique strategic advisory firm focused on the asset management industry. The combination marks a
Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced acquisitions of Ultimus Fund Solutions and The Gemini Companies in a strategic combination. The combined company, which will operate as Ultimus Fund Solutions, is a provider of full service fund administration,
After a first investment in the credit strategy offered by Eiffel Investment Group in last May, Emergence has made its second seeding partnership with Bernheim, Dreyfus & Co. Emergence invested approximately USD40 million in the fund Diva Synergy Ucits, bringing
