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Arena Investors: Best Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund – Arena Investors currently manages USD1.7 billion in assets and since its inception in 2015 the firm has deployed USD2.4 billion across 203 transactions. Daniel Zwirn is Arena’s CEO and CIO and oversees the investment team. Arena invests across six verticals, which include: corporate private credit, real estate private credit, commercial and industrial assets, structured finance, consumer assets, and corporate securities.
“Arena is set-up as an ‘enterprise’ (versus a ‘fund’) that includes over 60 professionals plus a vast global relationship network, scanning the breadth of asset and credit-oriented investment areas, and clearly identifies the risk/reward
LOIM, 1798 Alternatives | 1798 Fundamental Strategies Fund: Best Multi-Manager Hedge Fund (Multi-Strategy) – Lombard Odier Investment Managers established its own alternatives business, 1798 Alternatives, in 2007 and is headed up by Jean-Pascal Porcherot (pictured). Since inception, its AUM has grown to USD4.9 billion within liquid alternatives and hedge funds. More specifically, USD0.9 billion is held in a multi-strategy product that invests in a range of equity, relative value, tail risk, and event driven strategies across a number of investment styles.
A very warm welcome to our 2020 US Hedgeweek awards report. I’d like to extend my congratulations to all of the award winners this year. It’s a clear recognition of the outstanding work the managers contained herein, have done over the last 12 months, in an industry where saying one is ‘best-in-class’ cannot be underestimated.
In this report we ask managers to go under the hood to showcase their respective investment strategies, and reveal a few insights into how they think about risk/return in the current environment. Each article is designed to show readers, in brief, what makes these managers tick,
Institutional investors worldwide are now using Castle Hall’s DiligenceExpress to monitor asset managers with total regulatory assets under management of USD45 trillion – completely free of charge.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Alternative investment platform CAIS has announced a new integration with Orion Advisor Solutions, its first automated data and reporting integration with an adviser-tech firm, providing advisers with a more robust view of their alternative investments.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
CubeLogic, a provider of enterprise risk management solutions, has launched a new Risk-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering developed in partnership with Numerix and IOWArocks. The new service delivers advanced credit, market and compliance risk analytics in a flexible, scalable solution with both end-of-day and real-time capabilities.
The new RaaS managed service solution comes with a set of pre-configured options which have been specifically designed to meet the unique needs of financial services institutions and energy and commodity firms alike.
Launched in response to client demand, highlights include:
• RiskCubed risk engine, powered by Numerix advanced valuation and risk analytics, offering the full range
THETA, a specialist provider of buy-side trading technology as a service, has appointed Neena Dholani as Head of Business Development and a Board Member.Dholani has 25 years of experience in Capital Markets, specialising in fixed income e-commerce and technology sales to the buy-side. She has an in-depth knowledge of applying technology solutions for multi-asset trading across the full order-execution life cycle, including front to back workflows and regulatory frameworks.
Dholani joins THETA from FIX Trading Community, where she was Global Marketing and Membership Director. Previous roles include Head of e-Commerce Sales at Commerzbank and Societe Generale, and senior fixed income
Miami International Holdings (MIH), the parent holding company of the MIAX Exchange Group, and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX), a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), has completed the acquisition of MGEX for a combination of cash and MIH common stock. MGEX will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of MIH.
With this acquisition, MIH adds a well-established futures platform on which to continue its expansion and which will allow MIH to list both options and futures on new products that will be exclusive to its exchanges.
Thomas P Gallagher, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MIH, says:
The short-term outlook for liquid alternatives in Europe remains pessimistic, but the promise of uncorrelated returns is expected to boost demand over the medium term as investors diversify their portfolios, according to findings from the latest issue of The Cerulli Edge—Global Edition.“Net new flows of liquid alternatives in Europe will likely be negative for a second consecutive year in 2020, although net new outflows are expected to moderate in the latter part of the year,” says Andrius Dovydavicius, a research analyst with the European institutional team at Cerulli Associates.
However, Cerulli believes that the greater transparency provided by liquid alternatives,
Franklin Templeton is rolling out a new emerging markets-focused hedge fund strategy on its FTAF liquid fund platform, and aims to tap into sovereign and corporate debt opportunities with a “global macro style” of alpha generation.
The Franklin K2 Emso Emerging Markets UCITS strategy, a sub-fund of the firm’s Franklin Templeton Alternatives Funds (FTAF) range that launched last year, will trade an assortment of EM sovereign and corporate debt securities and currencies, including derivatives, long and short.
The new Emso fund replicates the investment strategy currently housed within Franklin Templeton’s UCITS compliant multi-strategy vehicle, the Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund,
