Investors allocated about USD14.12 billion in new money to hedge funds in January and pushed overall hedge fund industry AUM to a new record of USD3.366 trillion, according to eVestment’s Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flow Report for January 2018. Macro funds, long/short equity
Wealthfront has launched Risk Parity, the latest addition to PassivePlus, the company’s signature suite of investment features, which is designed to replicate Bridgewater Associates’ All Weather Fund. PassivePlus represents Wealthfront’s collection of academically proven, time tested rules-based strategies that seek
Hedge fund managers ended May 2019 down 1.09 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 1.37 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, outperforming the global equity market which slumped 6.12 per cent during the month. The return of US-China trade
Imagineer Technology Group, a provider of investor relations and fund marketing software to the asset management industry, and Synap Software Labs, a provider of cloud-based investment research, due diligence, and account management applications, are to merge. The combined business will
The United States dominates the PE marketplace when it comes to size of AUM size. It is estimated that the top 300 global PE managers manage USD1.5 trillion in assets, of which US-based managers account for USD1 trillion; this compares
Online multi-asset trading and investment specialist Saxo Bank has reported a positive net profit of DKK401 million for 2017, an increase of 33 per cent compared to 2016. Client collateral deposits continued to rise to DKK103.6 billion while the operating
Global investors pulled another USD3.78 billion from hedge funds in May, according to the May 2019 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. However, despite the overall negative industry flows, many funds have been successfully able to raise new assets in
CMC Markets, a spread betting and contracts for difference (CFD) provider, is rolling out to its customers the ability to spread bet and trade CFDs on three new cryptocurrency indices. The new indices are bespoke to CMC. Their creation and
MackeyRMS, a provider of research management software, has secured a significant equity investment from Resurgens Technology Partners. The partnership makes MackeyRMS the third FinTech investment in Resurgens’ USD200 million flagship private equity fund, and will enable the Company to accelerate
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2018 measured 2.71 per cent, up from 2.20 per cent in January. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2018 was 2.71 per cent, reflecting improvement from the 3.25 per cent reported
