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ARK36 has launched as an actively managed investment fund, focused on the cryptocurrency markets, delivering a risk-adjusted exposure to crypto-assets for professional investors. The fund is regulated as an Alternative Investment Fund with Limited Number of Persons (AIFLNP) by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, (CySEC), is based in Larnaca, Cyprus, and has appointed Grant Thornton Cyprus as fund administrators.
Even during a global pandemic, expansive economic policies are pushing the equities and commodities markets higher, forcing investors to look to minimise their exposure to the rising inflation shown by major fiat currencies. As a licensed AIFLNP, ARK36’s focus on
Some of the industry’s leading multi-strategy hedge fund managers have had a good year so far, with their ability to trade myriad asset classes across the liquidity curve enabling their portfolio managers to harvest numerous sources of alpha.
Hedge funds posted a third consecutive month of inflows in August, adding USD5.6 billion in new assets to July’s USD10.5 billion in inflows and June’s USD15.1 billion as the industry continued its rebound from spring’s pandemic-driven redemptions.August’s inflows represented 0.2 per cent of industry assets, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
Coupled with a USD42.6 billion trading profit in August, the month’s inflows brought total industry assets to USD3.36 trillion as August ended, up from USD3.26 trillion at the end of July.
Data from 6,900 funds (excluding CTAs) in the BarclayHedge
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Investor confidence in hedge funds appears to be on the rise, with allocators pouring in some USD13 billion between July and September, the first quarterly net inflow into the industry in two-and-a-half years.
New data published by Hedge Fund Research shows the industry on the whole drew positive net inflows for the first time since Q1 2018, with third quarter allocations – dominated by macro and relative value strategies – bringing the total amount of industry capital globally to some USD3.31 trillion.
HFR president Kenneth Heinz said the pick-up in inflows was driven both by defensive outperformance by hedge funds through
London-based oil-focused hedge fund Westbeck Capital’s flagship energy strategy suffered its biggest loss this year in last month’s violent market sell-off, shedding 15.2 per cent as its long oil equity positions were sent into a tailspin.
Though September’s loss was the strategy’s third monthly slide in a row, the Westbeck Energy Opportunity Fund remains up 41.7 per cent year-to-date.
The fund, which is managed by Westbeck co-founders Will Smith, CEO, and Jean-Louis Le Mee, CIO, remains upbeat on the commodity, pointing to a “constructive story” in fundamentals and data.
“As the fund hit its -15 per cent drawdown limit towards
Trend-following hedge fund strategies have launched a partial fightback in recent weeks, advancing into positive territory so far in October having suffered their worst month of the year during September’s market reversal.
Refinitiv has launched Country Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Scores as a data-metric in the transition to sustainable investing – providing comparisons at the country level for fund managers, advisors and investors.
Investment managers “have to be able to cope” with prevailing market environments, and not blame central bank policies for fund performance, according to Man Group CEO Luke Ellis, who says investors also now want more from their portfolios than passive index strategies can deliver.
Man Group’s shares rose on Friday morning after the London-listed global hedge fund group’s latest quarterly results showed funds under management swelled 4 per cent in Q3 to USD113.1 billion – driven by what CEO Luke Ellis described as “strong growth” in performance and “robust net inflows” in its alternatives and long-only strategies.
