The selloff in October was difficult to navigate for hedge funds, but there were substantial divergences across strategies, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Lyxor writes: “L/S Equity and Event-Driven strategies underperformed due to
International Solutions Network (ISN), a San Francisco-based consulting company with offices in London and New York City, has joined the Investment Association’s (IA) Velocity FinTech Accelerator as a Consulting Company Partner. ISN a capital markets and FinTech consulting company and
QMA, the quantitative equity and global multi-asset solutions manager of PGIM, has acquired Wadhwani Asset Management (WAM), a London-based quantitative macro-focused investment management firm. Upon closing, WAM, which runs quantitative macro hedge funds and risk premia strategies, will become part
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for October 2018 measured -3.07 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.64 per cent in November. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital
A new study produced by HedgeFund Intelligence has found that the returns generated by onshore UCITS are broadly in line with their offshore hedge fund equivalents.
With UCITS assets in excess of USD5.6trillion and 59 per cent of managers with AUM of USD1billion or more running a UCITS platform (according to a recent Preqin report), Societe Generale has
Research undertaken by HFMWeek suggests that dedicated UCITS platforms could potentially
London-based Merchant Capital, an independent Dublin-domiciled UCITS umbrella structure and part of the Merchant House Gr
Kenmar Group, a global alternative investment firm headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, has
The flash estimate for the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, indicates a 1.29 per cent loss in October. Year to date, the Index is down 2.87 per cent. “Although many traders were able to profit from the US dollar’s
