A victory for Joe Biden in next month’s US presidential election may “counter-intuitively” help boost global oil markets, according to London-based energy-focused hedge fund Westbeck Capital.
Cairn Capital Group (Cairn Capital), supported by Mediobanca as its majority shareholder, is to acquire and merge with Bybrook Capital (Bybrook), a specialist distressed credit manager based in London. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
London-based global equity hedge fund Russell Clark Investment Management is eyeing a rise in global agricultural crop prices amid potential wider global food inflation, as a result of the disruptive impact of swine flu on China’s pig population. China – the world’s
Jackson Hole Capital Partners, the Tulsa-based asset manager, is launching a new alternatives investment platform to be run by two former investment heads from Permal and EnTrust – Robert Kaplan and Christopher Keenan – who have joined the firm as
March this year saw Robert Mirsky, then Global Head of Hedge Funds at KPMG, become Global Head of Asset Management and UK Managing Partner at EisnerAmper. Mirsky was also charged with opening EisnerAmper’s first UK office and now presides over
Capstone Investment Advisors, the global volatility and derivatives-focused hedge fund, believes the lack of volatility both in the US election polls and president Donald Trump’s personal approval ratings suggests Democrat challenger Joe Biden is on course to win the 3
By Joshua D Kestler, Global Head of HedgeMark, BNY Mellon – In the 12 years since the 2008 financial crisis, many large institutional investors have adopted Dedicated Managed Account (DMA) structures in order to address the challenges in commingled hedge
MackeyRMS, a provider of SaaS-based research management software, and InsiderScore, a provider of actionable data and analytics on publicly traded US companies, have announced a strategic merger to create a ‘best-of-breed’ investment and research management data, analytics, and software platform.
Accelerate Financial Technologies’ (Accelerate) suite of institutional-calibre alternative ETFs, inclduing the Accelerate Absolute Return Hedge Fund (HDGE) and Accelerate Arbitrage Fund (ARB), have been added to the RBC Dominion Securities A+ platform.
Hedge fund short-sellers have taken a five-month drubbing on bets against the Dow Jones, as the sustained summer rally torpedoed their negative wagers to the tune of USD16 billion – but September’s sell-off has stemmed losses, leading to hopes of
