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Notz Stucki: Best Multi-Manager Fund – Equity Hedge – Active fundamental investment has retaken the leadership role in the asset management industry and alpha generating, star managers can now stand out.
“Neither quant managers nor passive investment strategies have been able to deal with the capital market volatility as well as active hedge fund managers who were beating the overall indexes by a wide margin,” observes Angel Sanz, CIO, Notz Stucki Group.
In the tumultuous environment, the firm was more active than ever. Initially, it followed the stay-at-home strategy, overweighting investments linked to health care, digitalisation and cleaner energies. After
Hedge Invest: Best Liquid Alternative Fund – Credit Hedge – As the market environment is expected to become more volatile, asset managers who can rely on truly absolute return strategies and deep fundamental analysis should outperform.
“Deep intelligent research is the necessary condition of all our investment decisions. Especially in view of the increasing volatility and challenging market movements we anticipate,” Filippo Lanza, chief investment officer at Numen Capital, observes. “In recent years, at Numen, the subdelegated manager for Hedge Invest, we have developed our fintech platform. This allows us to remotely share research and analysis across our team, relying on
Rhenman & Partners: Best Global Equity Hedge Fund – Specialist managers are likely to be in a favourable position going forward, as investment trends can be expected to benefit a focused approach.
“Specifically, in the long/short equity space, specialist managers can be expected to grow their market share at the expense of broad funds, covering multiple sectors managed by generalists,” comments Carl Grevelius, founding partner and head of investor relations at Rhenman & Partners.
The firm manages a specialist fund in the healthcare sector with a strong focus on innovation in the different sub sectors within that. Grevelius is confident Rhenman &
By A Paris — After the shock of the second quarter of 2020, hedge fund managers went on to perform well over the course of the year. The intense volatility which followed the initial fear sparked by the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic was rife with opportunity. It allowed managers to prove their value-add and remind their investors why they chose them in the first place.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2021 measured 2.07 per cent, down from 2.49 per cent in March.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator of 2.07 per cent for April 2020 continues a positive trend which now includes ten consecutive months of lower year-over-year redemptions,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “The 2.07 per cent reported for the indicator compares favourably to the 3.02 per cent reported a year ago and is also the second lowest calendar month of April since the Forward Redemption Indicator’s inception in 2006.
“Asset retention for the hedge fund industry
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets and a long-term Murex partner, is delivering MX.3 through its enterprise-grade SaaS-enabled Managed Apps platform.
Telos, one of the most active blockchain platforms in the world according to Blocktivity, is going cross chain to PancakeSwap, after launching over two years ago and amassing a huge list of active projects in a wide range of industry verticals.
The bridge from Telos to BSC is now open, and a PancakeSwap pool will be added to jump start access to the Telos networks native asset TLOS for BSC users. This is the second major network bridge for Telos after bridging to Ethereum in March when it listed on Uniswap.
Telos has an emerging DeFI marketplace of its
Global hedge fund industry assets swelled to a new record high of USD3.8 trillion in the first three months of 2021, as managers recorded their strongest quarter since 2000 and investors duly poured more capital into a broad selection of strategy types, with the biggest hedge funds still taking the largest slice of client money.
Options: Best Managed Services Provider – Cybersecurity continues to top the list of challenges the hedge fund industry is facing and the key to tackling it is being prepared and ready to react. Transparent and frequent communication is also more important than ever.
“Preparing for and even just being able to identify an indicator of compromise (IOC) is a question of data,” explains Stephen Morrow (pictured), chief operating officer, Options Technology, “typically, this involves the generation, handling, parsing and manipulation of vast amounts of data. The right tools, automation and AI are critical to carry this out. Being able to and
Prosek Partners: Best PR & Communications Firm – Managing a brand and its reputation in a digital world, which moves at speed, means hedge funds are deploying a more sophisticated marketing approach. They’re having to consider the implications of an environment in which information is more transparent and where stakeholders respond in a different way.
“We’ve seen funds of all shapes and sizes double down on communications and marketing, as they realised they couldn’t get the job done without having these elements in place,” comments Jennifer Prosek (pictured), founder and managing partner of Prosek Partners. “This has focused the attention of
