Alpha Blue Ocean, the London-based alternative credit investor, is eyeing growing funding opportunities arising out of the sharp economic downturn following the coronavirus outbreak. The firm focuses mainly on the healthcare, energy and technology sectors, targeting typically smaller and medium
Leatherback Asset Management, in partnership with Tidal ETF Services, has launched its first Exchange-Traded Fund – the Leatherback Long/Short Alternative Yield ETF (LBAY).Read the full story at ETF Express…
Cocktail parties, oil markets, and why China resembles Bismarck’s Germany as it continues to exert its economic influence – in conversation with Massar Capital’s Marwan Younes…
Chicago-based CME Group plans to launch new options on its Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts, which will be available for trading in the autumn of 2020, pending regulatory review. Read the full story on Institutional
Torgos Credit Opportunities: Best Distressed Debt Hedge Fund – Torgos Credit Opportunities is a multi-pronged credit strategy seeking to invest across debt capital structures of corporate issuers primarily in North America and Europe. The strategy allocates capital on a bottom-up basis,
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) has launched PAAMCO Launchpad, a co-investment platform for seeding and supporting emerging hedge funds. Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) is the inaugural PAAMCO Launchpad partner. ERS and PAAMCO believe the PAAMCO Launchpad platform will
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has become the first institutional investment platform to offer access to the Alpha Nasdaq OCIO Indices. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
SureFire Capital’s SureFire Multi-Strat has secured a top ranking from global data provider Preqin. The multi-strategy fund was ranked No1 by Preqin as of 30 September, 2020 in four different Hedge Fund of Funds categories: Year-to-date 2020 net return, Cumulative
Managed futures strategies experienced an entire year’s worth of performance dispersion during a dramatic first three months of 2020, with trend-following hedge funds’ returns hinging as much on luck as skill, a new deep-dive analysis by multi-manager CTA portfolio investment
