MJ Hudson, the specialist service provider to the asset management industry, has acquired risk management and reporting automation specialist, Clarus Risk (Clarus). This acquisition follows the December 2020 acquisition of fund performance analytics firm, PERACS. The acquisition further extends the
ThirdYear Capital’s ART Global Macro Fund, a macro hedge fund strategy which fuses quantitative and fundamental investing, has doubled its assets less than a year after launching, with the firm looking to capitalise on prevailing high valuations and interest rate and inflation risks.
ESG Investing, a multi-media platform devoted to ESG and sustainable investing, has launched Greenlight, an accreditation service for ESG funds and products. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Global hedge fund industry assets swelled to a new record high of USD3.8 trillion in the first three months of 2021, as managers recorded their strongest quarter since 2000 and investors duly poured more capital into a broad selection of
Rothschild & Co Asset Management Europe is to transfer its alternative multi-asset management business to CANDRIAM. The transaction concerns open-ended funds domiciled in France and Luxembourg and dedicated institutional funds, representing total assets under management of almost EUR350 million. Under
AIR Asset Management, a hedge fund management firm focused on longevity-linked investments such as life settlements and annuities, has announced that the AIR US Life Fund II strategy has exceeded USD160 million in assets under management. The strong increase in
Hedge funds are on track to comfortably outperform their 2020 showing this year, with strong strategy returns and continued capital inflows boosting industry coffers to almost USD3.6 trillion in the run-up to 2021’s midway point.
ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ATIF), a holding group providing business and financial consulting in Asia and North America, has announced that its newly launched ATIF-1 Hedge Fund has received USD1 million subscription through President and Chairman of the Board, Jun
RepRisk: Best ESG Solution Provider – It’s a very exciting time to be working in the field of ESG. The industry has recently experienced a sea change in sentiment and it is now accepted that having a risk-focused approach and looking
Brummer & Partners, the long-running Swedish multi-strategy hedge fund firm, is withdrawing its investment in Observatory, one of the underlying funds in the flagship Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) vehicle. BMS has allocated capital to Observatory – a trading-oriented long/short corporate credit-focused
