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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the hedge fund industry trade body, has paired up with ITN Productions to produce a news-style programme which aims to push the case for hedge funds’ role in the economic recovery following the coronavirus crisis.
Due to launch in summer 2021, ‘Holding Strong: Alternative Investments in a Volatile Market’ will explore the role played by alternative assets and hedge fund managers in the global economy and their value to investors and markets, and how they offer allocators a differentiated risk/return profile and provide alternative funding avenues for borrowers.
The programme will also examine how
With the profound impacts of Covid-19 continuing to reverberate around the world, it is notable how robust the funds industry has been during the last six months. In Ireland, like elsewhere, significant redemptions were registered in March as investors sought to reduce risk and increase liquidity.
By A Paris – The Irish funds industry has demonstrated its resilience as it continues to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic with its head held high. Despite the global market turbulence, Ireland continued to benefit from the Brexit fallout as large global managers chose to open operations in the jurisdiction and Ireland’s commitment to ESG growth is sustained.
By Shane Coveney, Dillon Eustace – As European exchange traded products gather a greater share of asset flows and surpass USD1 trillion in assets under management, the industry’s appetite for new and innovative products continues to develop at a greater pace than ever. Historically, fragmentation in the European market has been a significant obstacle, leading to slow growth in the exchange traded fund (ETF) market in Europe.
By Derbhil O’Riordan, Dillon Eustace – Consistently heralded by industry as a flexible and efficient place to do business, Ireland is Europe’s leading onshore jurisdiction for the establishment of private equity structures.
By Kieran Fox, Irish Funds – We are all well aware of the human and public health cost which Covid-19 has had since March of this year when its impact reverberated around the globe. Although general consensus is that we still have some way to go until there is a vaccine or other resolution to the pandemic, central banks and regulators are now beginning to look into the effect the crisis had on capital markets during the early days of its impact and seeking to learn lessons from this.
The Irish funds industry may have some catching up to do in the private funds space, but as the government gears up to introduce a refreshed Investment Limited Partnerships Act, the jurisdiction is expected to see an influx of managers from the UK, the US and further afield choosing to set up their private funds in Ireland.
Managed futures strategies slumped to their worst month of the year in September, with trend-following hedge funds caught out by sharp reversals in momentum across several markets and asset classes.
CTAs, which aim to profit from various trends across equities, commodities, currencies and fixed income through futures and derivatives trading, were hit by the sudden retreat from record stock market highs and US dollar weakness last month, Société Générale said on Tuesday.
Following a mixed first half of the year, the sector had started to gather pace over the summer, with July proving their best month so far. But September’s
Fintech company, Gold-i has partnered with Aqua Digital Rising, a new alternative asset investment platform that allows people to invest in indices based on human beings.Gold-i is integrating Aqua Digital Rising into its Matrix multi-asset liquidity management platform, enabling brokers to diversify by adding a new asset class, human beings, which can be traded as CFDs. Aqua Digital Rising is on track to launch in January 2021, offering the opportunity to trade on the success of individuals, from sports people and celebrities through to social media influencers and politicians.
Tom Higgins, CEO, Gold-i, says: “I have always been motivated
Hedge fund short sellers have rebounded with a GBP418 million (USD542.6 million) gain from negative bets against FTSE 100-listed companies – just a month after losing almost the same amount from wayward shorts in UK blue-chip stocks.
