Gold prices are storming back towards their mid-April highs, with investor appetite holding up amid sustained market volatility – potentially bringing further gains for hedge funds which have built major positions in the commodity recently.
Alternative credit fund management is the focus of three new memos published by The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), covering fund structuring considerations, valuation, and conflicts of interest.
As sustainable investing and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) trends continue to soar among hedge funds, new research by BlackRock suggests a majority of ESG-tilted investment portfolios have outperformed non-sustainable counterparts during this year’s coronavirus-fuelled downturn.
Traditional long/short fund Lighthaven Capital has committed to help in the fight against coronavirus by donating 25 per cent of its performance fees to fund research into Covid-19. Here, Founder and CIO Eric Chung explains how a forward-thinking outlook is
Investors pulled more than USD85 billion out of hedge funds during March – some 2.7 per cent of total industry assets globally – amid growing fears over the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, new data from BarclayHedge shows. Investor
Dallas headquartered Strait Fund Services (STRAIT) has made a strategic hire in Houston, Texas with the appointment of Michael Barakat.With almost 20 years of financial services experience in creating and implementing compliance programs at institutional asset management firms, Barakat will
O’Neil Global Advisors (OGA) and affiliates William O’Neil Investment Management Shanghai Ltd and O’Neil Capital Management India Pvt Ltd have launched a family of investment funds utilising algorithmic trading strategies based on proprietary quantitative factor research pioneered by William J
Refinitiv is adding Bank Bills pricing information to its real-time data feed, thanks to its newly-expanded partnership with trading platform Yieldbroker. Customers will receive critical information relating to short-term funding, balance sheet management, along with hedging strategies and necessary instrument
While volatility-focused hedge funds can often experience dramatic swings in performance, the long lean periods punctuated by sporadic surges in returns, Dominicé & Co Asset Management, a Geneva-based volatility-focused manager, has seen its long-running Cassiopeia fund flourish with consistency. Dominicé,
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2018 measured 4.17 per cent, up from 3.47 per cent in May. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2018 was 4.17 per cent, an increase from the 3.59 per cent reported for the
