Fintech specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions is to be added to the S&P 500 Index at the opening of trading on Monday 18 June 2018. “We are honoured to join the important companies that comprise the S&P 500,” says Rich Daly,
Certain absolute return multi-asset strategies which offer all-weather return profiles have withstood the recent market turbulence, delivering “impressive” capital preservation which bodes well for future investor appetite, according to Bfinance. Multi-asset absolute return funds lost some 2.1 per cent on
In a context where risk assets bottomed on 23 March, most alternative strategies rebounded in recent weeks, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research Team.Global Macro and Event-Driven strategies benefitted the most from the fall in
A number of hedge fund strategies, including discretionary macro managers and specialist technology and healthcare-focused equity long/short funds, have taken profits in the first half of 2020, as the wider industry continues to claw back losses following the bedlam that
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for May 2018 measured 1.57 per cent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.52 per cent in June. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for June
Algebris Investments is seizing on opportunities in strong, strategically important companies globally that are benefitting from government support during the downturn, as central banks “drop all their taboos” to support the global economy. Portfolio manager Alberto Gallo, who runs the
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman’s “very negative view” and “good sense of timing” powered the firm’s stellar USD2.6 billion gain last month but the high-profile activist hedge fund manager does not fear a protracted 1930s-style depression as a result of
Hedge fund managers were down 4.40 per cent in March, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index IMI (Local) by 9.59 per cent during the month – a level of outperformance unseen since October 2008. Long volatility-focused strategies, CTA/managed futures and AI
Starting in April, Solactive is to make a wide range of its benchmark indices will be made available on C8 Technologies’ platform. Different kinds of investors, such as asset owners, asset managers, and hedge funds can all implement them in their
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -6.33 per cent in March, underperforming the -5.88 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
