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Altana Wealth, the multi-strategy hedge fund led by former Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, has launched a new carbon futures-focused strategy which aims to capitalise on the rising costs of carbon credits within the European Union.
With governments in developed nations, and particularly the EU, now fully committed to combating climate change and higher prices for carbon emissions, the Altana Carbon Futures Opportunity (ACFO) strategy, which launched earlier this month, will take directional positions on those rising prices.
Specifically, the strategy aims to provide investors with upside participation – with estimated multiple returns at 2-4 times unlevered – in
As bitcoin surged towards a two-month high on Monday (26 July), digital assets-focused investment manager Wave Financial is bullish on the cryptocurrency’s future prospects amid the ongoing institutionalisation of the sector.
BlueBay Asset Management has expanded its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment team with the addition of Emma Whiteacre as a Senior ESG Analyst, and Elena Koycheva as ESG Institutional Portfolio Manager.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the revised 2021 calendar as well as the new 2022 auction calendar for the auctioning of EU emission allowances (EUA) in coordination with the European Commission, the EU Member States and the EEA EFTA states which participate in the common auction platform (CAP3) as well as with the German and Polish competent authorities.
The 2021 auction calendar has been adjusted for the period from September to December 2021 in accordance with the Auctioning Regulation due to the operation of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR), taking into account the publication of the 2020 total
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is to combine its ESG tools with global alternative investment manager VarVal Investors’ proprietary ESG risk scoring methodology and apply this to the future CarVal Clean CLO product line.
The launch will mark the first deployment of Insig AI’s and CarVal’s jointly developed ESG technology. This new technology is understood by Insig AI to be the first of its kind in fixed income, enabling asset managers to develop and execute a high-performing, data-led ESG investing strategy by providing transparent and evidence-based ESG scoring and interrogation
BlueBay Asset Management’s Global Credit Alpha Long/Short strategy has generated a commendable track record since launching almost a decade ago, taking an active catalyst-driven approach to trading corporate and sovereign credit markets.
With a broad investment mandate, and no restrictions on geographies, sectors or ratings universe, the liquid credit long/short strategy has never suffered a single down year since its November 2011 inception.
What binds the portfolio together, says Senior Portfolio Manager Geraud Charpin, is the liquidity profile of its investments.
“It’s the ability to get in and out of a position within a couple of trades – generally within
Growing numbers of investors are turning to hedge funds to protect their portfolios in the face of inflationary fears, with total industry capital swelling to almost USD4 trillion and more allocators set to tilt towards alternative assets, new research shows.
Australian investors are showing an increased interest in hedge funds after the sector demonstrated its robustness during the pandemic, and are now seeing how they could provide opportunities for protection against the spectre of inflation.
This is the view of Scott Pappas, Head of Alternatives and Derivative Solutions at Frontier Advisors, an Australian investment consultancy that works with superannuation funds, endowments and liability-driven investment portfolios.
According to Pappas, when equity markets were falling over consecutive days at the start of the pandemic, hedge funds typically held up well.
“Some people criticised the fact that hedge funds didn’t mirror the recovery of equity markets when they bounced back as long and as hard as they did, but investors
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has set a new all time record in Dry Freight, achieving a 42 per cent uplift in volume for the first half of 2021.
In the period January to June 2021, a total volume of 598,300 lots were traded (H1 2020: 422,244 lots) which is the highest volume ever recorded in a 6 month period, since launching the business in 2016.
The new H1 record follows an 18 month period of sustained organic growth for EEX’ Dry Freight business, which has seen the exchange also gain the majority share of Open Interest in the combined
Consultants see continued drive towards ‘alternative’ private debt, including regulatory capital and direct lending strategies
Consultants see continued drive towards ‘alternative’ private debt, including regulatory capital and direct lending strategies