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Most hedge fund managers have taken action to protect their firm’s data from external attacks. However, there is a growing recognition of the importance of shielding the firm from risks which can breed within the firm itself, and also protecting data in transit particularly in the hybrid working environment most of the world currently finds itself in.
By A Paris – The volatility experienced since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 has largely been a positive development for alpha-hunting hedge fund managers who were able to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunities available. However, various market forces saw those at extreme ends of the investment approaches come under pressure – causing the convergence of quantitative and fundamental philosophies to rise in appeal.
The spectrum of investment approaches is very diverse – with fundamental investors using traditional metrics like balance sheet evaluations at one end, and strictly quant managers whose investment decisions are driven by statistical models.
Altana Wealth, the credit, currency and special situations-focused hedge fund led by former Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, is making bumper returns from distressed opportunities within the global oil services sector, where companies have been clobbered by Covid-19.
The Altana Distressed Opportunities Fund, which seeks out investment ideas in neglected corners of capital markets, has soared some 115 per cent since its late October lows by targeting certain energy assets which tumbled in value in the early stages of the coronavirus crisis, the firm said on Wednesday.
Since the start of 2021, the fund is up more than 64 per
New Hyde Park Alternative Funds has added the Galaxy Plus – Eagle Spectrum Fund (Eagle Spectrum), an investment strategy from Eagle Investment Solutions (Eagle), to its Galaxy Plus managed account platforms.
Eagle Spectrum invests in a diversified mix of liquid, exchange-traded futures across multiple sectors including currencies, fixed income, stock indices, agricultural, metals and energy.
The Eagle Spectrum strategy has been actively trading in proprietary accounts since 2012. The fund takes advantage of distinct price patterns primarily using spectral analysis and artificial intelligence techniques while adhering to strict risk and portfolio management rules.
“We provide a different risk-return
Hedge funds are stacking up gains this year as shuttered economies continue to unlock, with the industry navigating volatility and inflation to score its best January-to-May performance in two-and-a-half decades.
Argentium Digital Asset Management, a London-based cryptocurrency hedge fund founded by ex-JP Morgan and Credit Suisse manager Paul Frost-Smith, has committed to a carbon-neutral investment approach.
The fund’s blockchain activity will be independently assessed annually for carbon impact, with Argentium pledging to purchase carbon credits or offsets to neutralise that impact. In addition, Argentium will purchase credits or offsets to cover its own carbon footprint.
As part of this initiative, Argentium – which recently unveiled its systematic multi-strategy arbitrage fund Chimera – is working with Brazilian environmental platform MOSS, which creates carbon offset programmes through its MCO2 token, the world’s first tokenised carbon credit.
“We will purchase and ‘burn’ the required number of MCO2 tokens
Gordian Capital has launched the R Squared Global Fund, managed by William Warner and Justin Leow.
Hedge funds that trade emerging markets advanced almost 6 per cent in the first four months of the year, with China, India and Middle East specialist managers leading the pack, as gains from regional equities and cryptocurrencies drove profits in early 2021.
Emerging market hedge funds – as measured by Hedge Fund Research’s Emerging Markets (Total) Index – surged 5.92 per cent over the four-month period. The strong start to the year continues the sector’s commendable 2020 run, which saw EM managers deliver annual returns of 12.68 per cent on average.
India-focused strategies generated an 11.46 per cent return in
The recent spate of victories by sustainability-focused shareholder activists against oil giants could spark renewed price volatility, heralding outsized opportunities for hedge funds betting on energy markets.
Kepler Partners has successfully launched the KLS Athos Event Driven Fund on its Kepler Liquid Strategies UCITS platform, raising over USD70 million of external capital for this new alternative UCITS fund.
The KLS platform now has six funds and assets under management of USD1.4 billion.
The KLS Athos Event Driven Fund is managed by Athos Capital Ltd from their offices in Hong Kong, and follows the firm’s flagship, equity-biased Asian event driven strategy. The strategy focuses on short- dated and liquid hard-catalyst events, with a significant weighting to Asia. The firm’s flagship fund, upon which the UCITS is based has
