The global hedge fund industry ended a volatile 2018 in the red, with aggregate performance for December at -2.15 per cent and for the year at -4.86 per cent, according to the latest eVestment hedge fund performance data. December’s negative
Hedge fund investors are growing more concerned over slower economic growth in the year ahead, which could be prompting a noted shift toward global macro managed futures strategies, according to the results of a survey published today by BarclayHedge, now
Risk-on markets bolstered hedge fund returns in July, with L/S Equity strategies outperforming, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Yet the reversal in growth stocks, due to the tech reversal at the end of
Investor appetite for hedge funds remains strong, according to Credit Suisse’s mid-year survey of hedge fund investor sentiment, entitled ‘Back In The Saddle’, which polled over 275 institutional investors globally, representing USD1.04 trillion in hedge fund investments. Hedge Funds witnessed
Hedge funds posted gains in July to begin the second half of 2018, recovering the narrow decline from June, and effectively navigating a primarily positive earnings season punctuated with certain idiosyncratic equity volatility and directional dislocations, including Facebook and Apple.
In a month where equity products dominated the top viewed strategies globally and in many regions of the world, investors and consultants in Europe ex-UK and Japan had a bigger taste for fixed-income strategies than their peers in July, according
According to new research from TABB Group, “Equity Options: Transparency and Simplicity are Clearly Not the Same,” with no dark pools, hidden trades, internalisation schemes, and each execution hitting the tape being posted on a licensed and regulated exchange, trading
Following extensive consultations with industry which began earlier this year in May, ending 27 July, the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), has published its Industry Consultation Report, August 2018, which comprehensively captures industry feedback, and documents a significant call for the
Sixty four per cent of asset managers plan to launch cross-border products in the next five years, however, the vast majority (88 per cent) see distribution-related data as a challenge in achieving this, and believe the pace of change is
There will be new issuance of GBP11.3 billion in listed investment companies over the next three years with two thirds of this new issuance to occur in alternative investments, according to Joachim Klement (pictured), Head of Investment Research at Fidante
