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RAM Active Investments SA (RAM AI), a systematic asset manager based in Geneva, is launching a fund with the objective of tackling climate change and providing investors an active strategy with strong ESG standards. RAM AI’s ESG approach is the result of extensive research exploring alternative data thanks to the successful development of the RAM AI Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure.
As the climate change emergency continues to grow RAM AI believes its role as an asset manager is to provide investors with a differentiated solution to low-carbon investing.
Emmanuel Hauptmann, who heads the Systematic Equity research, says: “The RAM ML team
As manager of Cheyne Capital’s Thematic Long/Short Fund, Richard Woolf (pictured) brings what he describes as a “healthy dose of scepticism” to his portfolio management style and trading approach.
Pricing dislocations across a broad range of industries and geographies, coupled with an increasingly fragmented macroeconomic landscape stemming from divergent emergency central bank measures, will throw up a wealth of investment opportunities for macro, equity and credit hedge fund strategies in the second half of 2020, K2 Advisors, the global fund advisory unit of Franklin Templeton, has said.
The firm’s third quarter hedge fund strategy outlook pointed to potential economic tailwinds stemming from increased consumer spending post-lockdown, a weakening US dollar, and higher commodity prices.
“In this environment, one might expect the US yield curve to steepen, non-US equities to
A number of hedge fund strategies, including discretionary macro managers and specialist technology and healthcare-focused equity long/short funds, have taken profits in the first half of 2020, as the wider industry continues to claw back losses following the bedlam that rocked markets earlier in the year.
London-based Heptagon Capital (Heptagon) has successfully launched two additional sub funds for its USD3.7bn Irish UCITS Fund company, the Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund, and the Levin Easterly US Equity Fund. The Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund is sub-advised by Summit Partners Public Asset Management, LLC, a division of Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm focused on private equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. The Summit Partners Sustainable Opportunities L/S Equity Fund investment team is led by Portfolio Manager Tim Albright and is focused on proactively identifying, evaluating and investing in public equity positions often
Gregg Fisher, a portfolio manager and factor investing specialist, has launched Quent Capital, a New York City-based investment firm which will focus on a global small cap long/short strategy.Over the course of his 30-year career in investment management, Fisher has developed and fine-tuned innovative investment strategies over multiple market cycles and constructed institutional-grade investment operations. Known as a research-driven, quant-focused investor, Fisher has a history of launching strategies when their respective asset classes were out of favour; each time, he produced a track record that matched or exceeded the relevant benchmarks over investment periods of more than a decade.
“Quantitative
Lansdowne Partners, the long-running London-based hedge fund firm, is restructuring its flagship Developed Markets Fund to focus solely on long-only investments, and will no longer employ short-selling in the strategy, in a major shift in focus for the high-profile manager.
Peter Davies, who co-manages the Lansdowne Developed Markets Fund’s portfolio alongside Jonathon Regis, believes the long book opportunities going forward are more appealing than the potential for shorts, and is closing the hedge fund part of the strategy.
Lansdowne, which was established in 1998 by Sir Paul Ruddock alongside Steven Heinz, reportedly manages around USD9.8 billion today across various funds,
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has signed a new agreement with Cboe Europe, one of the largest pan-European equities stock exchange operators by value-traded, to become a registered vendor for its European equities market data.TNS is offering its connectivity and market data service at the Equinix LD4/LD5 campus, where Cboe Europe’s data centre is located, to provide traders with low-latency access for both market data and order routing services.
“Cboe Europe has been a valuable order routing endpoint within our 2,800 strong financial community of interest for many years,” says Jeff Mezger, TNS’ Director of Product Management. “We are delighted
Quantumrock, the German volatility-focused quantitative hedge fund manager, has seen returns soar in the first half of the year, with its flagship fund generating more than 36 per cent in the first half of 2020 following an eye-catching June gain of almost 10 per cent.
The Munich-based firm’s Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP), which uses an equity futures-and-treasuries model built around AI trading throughout the market cycle, advanced 9.87 per cent last month, to bring its year-to-date showing to 36.16 per cent.
The strategy trades a balanced portfolio consisting of S&P 500 futures and treasuries with a duration risk of
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