Trend following hedge fund managers gained ground in July following a patchy first half of 2020, notching up their best monthly performance so far this year by capitalising on soaring gold prices and emerging trends against the US dollar.
Hathersage Capital Management LLC, a global macro investment manager specialising in G10 currencies and absolute returns, has been named Best Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund at the 2018 Hedgeweek Global awards ceremony in London. This is the third consecutive year Hathersage
Hedge Funds lost 1.53 per cent in February according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, versus a 3.69 per cent decline in the S&P 500 Total Return Index. Year to date, the Barclay Index remains up 0.52 per cent,
Since the trough of the recent sell-off, L/S Equity funds have outperformed other hedge fund strategies, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Their cautious stance since the end of January led them to partially
Cowen Inc’s prime services division, Cowen Prime Services, has been named Best Global Prime Broker for the third consecutive year at the 2018 Hedgeweek Global Awards. The award is based on a peer review system whereby Hedgeweek’s readers, including institutional
2017 was an exceptional year for the European investment fund industry, with net assets of UCITS and AIF surpassing the EUR15 trillion mark, according to the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) latest Quarterly Statistical Release. Net assets of UCITS increased by
Data from HFR shows that hedge funds advanced in August led by a resurgence in Energy/Basic Materials and Activist strategies. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) gained +0.4 per cent for the month, increasing the Index Value to 12,709
The Power Spot Intraday market, operated by EPEX Spot, increased by 17 per cent to 8.9 TWh in July, with Swiss Intraday trading generating a significant growth rate of 101 per cent and reached 110.3 GWh. The Belgian and French Intraday
Brummer & Partners, a Stockholm-based multi-strategy hedge fund firm, continued to generate positive performance as markets moved into the second half of the year, notching up gains across its trend-following, equity, credit and relative value strategies in July. The Brummer
GAM Systematic, the Cambridge-based quantitative investment management unit of Swiss-headquartered global asset manager GAM, saw its assets tumble in the first half of 2020 as investors withdrew CHF900 million (USD981.3 million).
