St Julians, Malta, 15 October, 2012 – Hedgeweek, the hedge fund industry’s leading news portal, has just released a special report “EXANTE 2012”. It profiles the strategies of six top performers in the EXANTE Hedge Fund Index, which is currently composed of the 20 best performing hedge funds listed on EXANTE‘s Automated Trading Platform (ATP).
EXANTE’s fund platform is a potential game changer for the industry as it gives investors the opportunity to invest directly in hedge funds. When asked about the selection of managers, Gatis Eglitis (pictured), one of EXANTE’s managing partners, emphasizes that the critical factor is the ability to generate meaningful alpha, therefore, EXANTE is not too concerned about the types of strategies on the platform, but rather their quality. “What counts when assessing a manager is the audited historical performance as this shows past volatility. If performance is exceptional we make sure that there is nothing lying underneath the tip of the iceberg. If not, we are happy to work with them and list their fund,” explains Eglitis.
From the EXANTE Hedge Fund Index, which has yielded 36.4% over the past two years, six of the top performing funds and their strategies are exclusively profiled in hedgeweek’s Special Report, namely, Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage Fund, Quantum Brains Capital Fund, Da Vinci K2 Tachyon Fund, Wermuth Leveraged Quant Eastern Europe Strategy, Courant Fund and MTG Multi-Arbitrage Fund.
While they all successfully apply algorithms, their strategies cannot differ more as they range from analyzing economic indicators and quantitative approaches to broadening out to a wider range of asset classes and systematic short term trading models. This hedgeweek Special Report also investigates how conducting business globally has encouraged different trading philosophies, ranging from delivering sustainable value and an anti-emotional approach to viewing the financial markets as if they were any other ecosystem.
Moreover, this hedgeweek Special Report introduces the recently established Bitcoin Fund, which has been designed to institutionalize one of the most successful electronic currencies – Bitcoin. The purpose of the fund is to give professional investors and eligible counterparties an opportunity to take advantage of the appreciation of the digital currency Bitcoin, which otherwise would not be possible.
In conclusion, the hedgeweek Special Report “EXANTE 2012” not only profiles the EXANTE Hedge Fund Index top performers and their strategies, investigating the reasons why they choose EXANTE, but also covers the latest trends and developments in the hedge fund market.
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