By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Equity markets around the world sold off last week because of uncertainty relative the Coronavirus’ impact on the global economy and corporate profits. No one knows how bad the economic impact might be, but the
Trader Jeff Tompkins has launched his flagship hedge fund, Altos Capital. The main objective of the fund is to outperform the S&P.
Fortuna Asset Management Communications – a public relations agency specialising in advice to boutique asset managers – has become a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The move by Fortuna AMC is in recognition of the increasing importance
With global markets in freefall on the back of coronavirus fears, BlueBay Asset Management recommends curbing risk levels for now – but suggests alpha opportunities will arise from this week’s market mayhem. The bedlam continued on Friday as both the
Man Group has seen its funds under management surge to a record USD117.7 billion in the last year, up from USD108.5 billion in 2018, which drove pre-tax profits up 54 per cent to USD386 million, as positive fund performance outweighed
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2018 measured 3.47 per cent, up from 2.60 per cent in April. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2018 of 3.47 per cent, reflects an increase from the 3.08 per cent reported for
With the net flow of investor capital remaining firmly positive for the year, and slightly positive for April, the global hedge fund industry seems to be on positive footing so far in 2018. However, nearly 63 per cent of reporting
Pretium Partners has acquired the investment management business of Latigo, a fund manager that specialises in event-driven investing with strategies including distressed securities, special situations and long/short credit and equity investing.Latigo co-founders David Ford and David Sabath are joining Pretium
Investors are slashing their exposure to hedge fund products at the “worst possible time”, says Man Group’s Pierre-Henri Flamand, amid signs that the long bull market run is starting to run out of steam – throwing up new opportunities for
London-based Carmika Partners is to offer its alpha generating equity tail-risk strategy to investors through Kettera Strategies’ Hydra, a managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies. Carmika was founded in 2015, by two industry veterans,
