Investors have continued to withdraw capital from hedge funds following disappointing returns – but newly-launched products aimed at tapping into this year’s market dislocations could be boosting renewed allocator interest, new research by eVestment shows.
Private credit managers are on track to provide some USD100 billion of real economy financing this year, as investors increasingly turned to the sector as a resilient portfolio hedge and diversifier amid equity market ruptures during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic. New
Most hedge fund industry employees have been working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, but now firms are split over when staff should return to work and when businesses can resume face-to-face contact with investors and other clients, a new study
Rebounding equity markets and credit spread tightening led to meaningful sequential-quarter recoveries of fund performance and balance sheet investment valuations for alternative investment managers (alt IMs) in Q2 2020, with the correction in liquid markets bolstered by unprecedented Fed stimulus,
Investment managers in UK are prioritising alternatives, multi-asset, and ESG fund launches for 2020, citing rising demand outside the traditional asset classes, according to a new report from Alpha FMC. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
A new report into the global crypto hedge fund landscape from PwC and Elwood Asset Management has shown Gibraltar as the third most popular jurisdiction for crypto hedge fund managers, behind only the US and UK.Gibraltar, which is also listed
For a fourth straight year, the US insurance industry has reduced its hedge fund investments, by USD2.6 billion in 2019 to USD11.9 billion, with the property/casualty segment reporting a year-over-year reduction of 22 per cent, the largest among the major
Alternative credit fund management is the focus of three new memos published by The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), covering fund structuring considerations, valuation, and conflicts of interest.
As sustainable investing and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) trends continue to soar among hedge funds, new research by BlackRock suggests a majority of ESG-tilted investment portfolios have outperformed non-sustainable counterparts during this year’s coronavirus-fuelled downturn.
High-conviction long-positioned hedge fund portfolios outperformed high-conviction short portfolios during the recent market meltdown, according to new MSCI research exploring how hedge fund managers navigated Q1’s unprecedented volatility surge. The study, authored by Donald Sze, executive director, MSCI Research and
