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Evallon Global Investment, a New York and Hong Kong-based asset manager and alternative investment solutions provider, is making its alternative investment offering available for qualified investors from January 2020 onwards. Initially reserved for institutional investors, Evallon’s alternative platform is focused on a number of strategies ranging from secondary market transactions to private equity and to the delivery of hedge fund access.
Seeking alternative forms of investment for the diversification of portfolios is a rapidly growing trend amongst institutional investors as prevailing market conditions force capital into taking on excessive equity risk, in order to accommodate rising equity valuations throughout the major
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record results for 2019 across all sales and client growth metrics tracked by the firm. This rapid growth was fuelled by a continued rise in demand for its
POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform, which provides significant cost, management and functionality benefits over the legacy platforms many investment managers currently employ.
LiquidityBook’s total revenues for 2019 were up 33 per cent year-over-year, fueled by steady client wins for each of the firm’s products: LBX Buy-Side, LBX Sell-Side and LBX Outsourced Trader. Recently, the firm signed multi-strategy
Rational Funds has launched the Rational/Pier 88 Convertible Securities Fund (PBXIX), a converted hedge fund, which employs the same management team and investment strategy as its predecessor.
The Saemor Europe Alpha Fund, Saemor Capital’s long-running market neutral hedge fund strategy, shed 1.9 per cent last month – its third successive monthly loss – rounding off a disappointing spell for the Netherlands-based manager which saw the fund down almost 10 per cent for the year.
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index returned 8.74 per cent in 2019, supported by the risk-on sentiment among investors and positive geopolitical developments throughout the year. Roughly 44.6 per cent of the hedge fund managers comprising the index have recorded double-digit gains over the year
The global hedge fund industry AUM has increased by USD9.9 billion in 2019. Investor redemptions totalling USD126.2 billion have been recorded throughout the year, a level the industry has not seen post-crisis.
The Eurekahedge North American Hedge Fund Index was up 9.32 per cent throughout 2019, as fund managers focusing on the region benefited from the equity
FeedStock, an AI-driven SaaS business that leverages the latest natural language processing technologies to enable financial services companies to meet both their compliance requirements and commercial goals, has secured a GBP2.5 million investment in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures.
Pictet Asset Management, the investment management arm of the Geneva-headquartered wealth management giant Pictet Group, is warning against complacency in global markets amid easing US-China trade tensions and reopened negotiations over the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
EJF Capital (EJF), a global alternative asset management firm, and AmWest Asset Management, an affiliate of The AmWest Group (AmWest), have formed a strategic joint venture partnership to manage investments in non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) loans as well as other non-agency mortgage loans acquired from select bank and non-bank originators. As part of the agreement, AmWest Asset Management LLC will have a minority role in the partnership.
EJF’s Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer Neal Wilson says: “We are excited to partner with AmWest to take advantage of the attractive investment environment in the non-qualified residential mortgage space, which has begun to experience
Arcesium, an investment management technology and professional services firm, has secured an investment from JP Morgan. The investment deepens Arcesium’s strategic partnership with JP Morgan, including their Securities Services business, a provider of independent fund administration and comprehensive outsourcing solutions to alternative fund managers, asset managers, and asset owners. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
“We appreciate the additional vote of confidence demonstrated by this investment. JP Morgan has been an important client and partner to us for a number of years and we look forward to working together to bring joint solutions to market,” says Gaurav Suri, CEO
The upcoming US elections and the possibility of a rate shift in the UK and Europe could present hedge funds with alpha hunting opportunities, writes Hedgeweek Editor-in-Chief, James Williams…
The last decade was dominated by sustained central bank intervention, giving rise to supercharged performance in equity and bond markets. And stripping away volatility like one would offensive wallpaper in a new home. This was not a period for hedge funds to operate at their optimal best, but perhaps this new decade – and indeed this year – could start to re-introduce some much needed volatility and give hedge fund managers
