Survey indicates popularity of global macro and long short strategies
A new survey of European institutional investors indicates that global macro and global long short are the most popular hedge fund strategies.
A new survey of European institutional investors indicates that global macro and global long short are the most popular hedge fund strategies.

The hedge fund industry was in positive territory to begin the fourth quarter, extending industry-wide YTD gains with strong contributions from Healthcare, Quantitative Equity, Activist and Fundamental Value funds, according to data released today by HFR. The HFRI Fund Weighted
Following a challenging September, the Societe General CTA Index closed October at -2.41 per cent as difficult market conditions continued in October. 2019 year-to-date CTAs are still in positive territory at +5.98 per cent, helped by earlier gains from trend
Intercontinental Exchange is to aunch a new exchange, ICE Futures Abu Dhabi (IFAD), to host the world’s first futures contracts based on Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) Murban crude oil. On 4 November, 2019, Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) has strengthened its London-based Hedge Fund Sales team with a number of appointments. Angela Osb

The global hedge fund industry saw an average return of +0.55 per cent in October, bringing year to data (YTD) average industry returns to +7.09 per cent, according to the October 2019 eVestment hedge fund performance data. Managed Futures funds,
Managers are resisting proposed regulatory reforms that would see them no longer being able to profit from securities lending – a practice whereby shares or ot
Standard & Poor’s is planning to launch the S&P Equity Long/Short Index, which will be the latest addition to its growing range of hedge fund indices.

GLG, the discretionary investment manager of hedge fund behemoth Man Group has launched a UCITS-III compliant version of its long/short financials fund reported F