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Investors withdrew USD10.99 billion from the global hedge fund business in June, the second month this year net flows for the business were negative, according to the just-released eVestment June 2021 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report.
Net flows were also negative in March of 2021, but general enthusiasm for the hedge fund business this year has year-to-date (YTD) asset flows still in the green at +USD28.69 billion.
At the mid-way point of 2021, the hedge fund business is almost half way to making up the USD59.32 billion investors pulled from hedge funds in 2020 according to eVestment data. Strong
Alma Capital Investment Management has teamed up with DLD Asset Management to launch a Convertible Arbitrage strategy on Alma Capital’s UCITS platform.
The Alma Platinum IV DLD Convertible Arbitrage launched on 16 of July and has already gathered over USD150 million in AuM.
The Ffnd seeks to generate absolute returns by utilising a spectrum of convertible arbitrage strategies, which are designed to profit from identifying mis-priced or expected return differentials that exist between a convertible security and its underlying equity.
DLD Asset Management was founded in 2013 by Mark Friedman, who has over 29 years of extensive arbitrage and options
Altana Wealth, the multi-strategy hedge fund led by former Trafalgar Asset Managers co-founder Lee Robinson, has launched a new carbon futures-focused strategy which aims to capitalise on the rising costs of carbon credits within the European Union.
With governments in developed nations, and particularly the EU, now fully committed to combating climate change and higher prices for carbon emissions, the Altana Carbon Futures Opportunity (ACFO) strategy, which launched earlier this month, will take directional positions on those rising prices.
Specifically, the strategy aims to provide investors with upside participation – with estimated multiple returns at 2-4 times unlevered – in
As bitcoin surged towards a two-month high on Monday (26 July), digital assets-focused investment manager Wave Financial is bullish on the cryptocurrency’s future prospects amid the ongoing institutionalisation of the sector.
BlueBay Asset Management has expanded its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment team with the addition of Emma Whiteacre as a Senior ESG Analyst, and Elena Koycheva as ESG Institutional Portfolio Manager.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the revised 2021 calendar as well as the new 2022 auction calendar for the auctioning of EU emission allowances (EUA) in coordination with the European Commission, the EU Member States and the EEA EFTA states which participate in the common auction platform (CAP3) as well as with the German and Polish competent authorities.
The 2021 auction calendar has been adjusted for the period from September to December 2021 in accordance with the Auctioning Regulation due to the operation of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR), taking into account the publication of the 2020 total
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is to combine its ESG tools with global alternative investment manager VarVal Investors’ proprietary ESG risk scoring methodology and apply this to the future CarVal Clean CLO product line.
The launch will mark the first deployment of Insig AI’s and CarVal’s jointly developed ESG technology. This new technology is understood by Insig AI to be the first of its kind in fixed income, enabling asset managers to develop and execute a high-performing, data-led ESG investing strategy by providing transparent and evidence-based ESG scoring and interrogation
BlueBay Asset Management’s Global Credit Alpha Long/Short strategy has generated a commendable track record since launching almost a decade ago, taking an active catalyst-driven approach to trading corporate and sovereign credit markets.
With a broad investment mandate, and no restrictions on geographies, sectors or ratings universe, the liquid credit long/short strategy has never suffered a single down year since its November 2011 inception.
What binds the portfolio together, says Senior Portfolio Manager Geraud Charpin, is the liquidity profile of its investments.
“It’s the ability to get in and out of a position within a couple of trades – generally within
Growing numbers of investors are turning to hedge funds to protect their portfolios in the face of inflationary fears, with total industry capital swelling to almost USD4 trillion and more allocators set to tilt towards alternative assets, new research shows.
Consultants see continued drive towards ‘alternative’ private debt, including regulatory capital and direct lending strategies
Consultants see continued drive towards ‘alternative’ private debt, including regulatory capital and direct lending strategies