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The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index increased to 111.9, up 4.8 points from February’s revised reading of 107.1.
Investors across all regions expressed an improved appetite for risk, with the North American ICI rising by 5.8 points to 109.8, the European ICI increasing by 1.6 points to 102.1, and the Asian ICI increasing by 1.3 points to 109.6.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot (pictured), and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and
Alter Domus, a provider of Fund and Corporate Services to alternative investment managers, has completed the acquisition of Cortland Capital Market Services (Cortland) in the US.
Headquartered in Chicago and with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, and China, Cortland is a leading independent investment servicing company providing third-party fund administration and middle and back-office outsourcing to financial institutions, including alternative investment managers, real estate private equity firms and credit funds. It currently has over USD200 billion of assets under administration.
The firm was founded in 2008 by Doug Hart CEO, Russ Goldenberg, Tim Houghton and
Fair Oaks Capital was launched in 2013 by senior professionals previously at GSO Capital Partners and Apollo Global Management. It characterises itself as a research-driven investment manager with a focus on fundamental corporate credit analysis.
“Our focus is to identify the highest conviction strategies in credit markets at any point in time for our liquid and long-term funds. We aim to offer investors differentiated opportunities which offer attractive risk-adjusted returns and low correlation with their more traditional positions,” explains Miguel Ramos, Partner.
Fair Oaks Capital’s first fund was launched in June 2014 as a listed, closed-ended vehicle which invests in
Pillar Capital Management (‘Pillar’) was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti (pictured), has an average of 25 years’ experience in the reinsurance marketplace.
Pillar Capital is focused on providing alpha to investors through the reinsurance space. It aims to provide an attractive yield for investors while managing the risk it takes to achieve its returns. Analysing the entire market from the large reinsurance sector to the small ILW market
It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Since Dixon Boardman founded the New York-based firm in 1988, it has steered a steady course. It has continued to evolve in line with market trends so as to unearth the best hedge fund talent, which feature in a range of multi-manager funds, the first of which, a long/short equity FoFs, has been running since the year of Optima’s inception.
“Despite all the changes in the industry, Optima’s success is based
A lot has transpired since ML Capital founded its Irish-domiciled MontLake UCITS platform in October 2010 during the first wave of the alternative UCITS boom. From launching with just a single UCITS Fund, ML Capital finished 2017 with 25 UCITS funds on the Platform and over USD5 billion in Group AUM, and now sits as one of industry’s most visible and successful players.
Richard Day (pictured), COO of ML Capital says 2017 was a record year for the group in terms of assets under management and top-line revenue growth:
“Over the year, we added seven new funds to the platform.
In Monaco back in 2013 – when bitcoin was priced at USD100 – Alistair Milne, an Internet entrepreneur since 1996, approached Lee Robinson with the idea to launch an innovative digital currency hedge fund. What resulted, in May 2014, was the Altana Digital Currency Fund (ADCF), the first actively managed, multi-asset cryptocurrency fund of its kind in Europe.
In 2017 ADCF returned a phenomenal 1496 per cent (after fees). Since inception it has returned over 2500 per cent, outperforming a passive investment in Bitcoin every year.
ADCF enables investors to gain actively managed exposure to Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Hathersage Capital Management LLC is a discretionary global macro investment manager founded in 1991. The firm is a foreign exchange specialist, expressing its global macro views strictly in G10 currencies, using interbank spot, forwards and vanilla options.
Hedgeweek’s readership voted Hathersage Capital Management’s Citi Access G10 Macro Access Strategy the Best Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund at the 2018 Hedgeweek Global Awards. This is the third year in a row that Hedgeweek has recognised Hathersage as the leading foreign exchange investment manager.
With the era of ultra-easy monetary policy nearing an end, rising interest rates and inflation fears have brought increasing
Sabre Fund Management is one of London’s most well established hedge fund managers, having launched its flagship market neutral Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund in 2002 and the newer Dynamic Equity Strategy in 2013. The firm is steered by Melissa Hill, CEO, who joined the firm in 1996.
Leading the investment process is Dan Jelicic. Dan joined Sabre in 2002 to manage the Style Arbitrage Fund and today he drives the investment process utilised in Sabre’s Style strategies.
Like many statistical arbitrage funds, Sabre Style Arbitrage is market agnostic.
The Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund was launched in August 2002. This systematic fund
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and finance practice in the Cayman Islands have advised 99, the Brazilian ride-sharing application and Uber competitor, on its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing.
