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Investors are divided over how their hedge fund allocations have performed during the recent market crash, a new industry survey has found.
Investment consultancy bfinance polled 260 investors – including pension funds, insurers, foundations and endowments and family offices – in 28 countries, with assets totalling more than USD2.5 trillion.
The snap poll – which quizzed investors on a range of asset classes including hedge funds, fixed income, multi-strategy and alternative risk premia – aimed to gauge investor satisfaction with strategy performance during this month’s stock market collapse following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Of the 52 per cent of survey participants who
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities regulator, has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance to address leverage risks in the Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) sector.
RWC Partners has appointed Nick Clay to lead a new Global Equity Income investment team. RWC has also recruited Andrew MacKirdy, Robert Canepa-Anson and Colin Rutter from Newton as additional members of the team.
Contracts for difference provider (CFD) CMC Markets has 17 new share baskets to its trading platform. Covering a wide range of topical industries, including gaming, banking and renewable energy, clients now have the ability to seamlessly gain exposure to trending sectors with a single trade.
The baskets each contain up to 50 stocks whose operations relate to a specific theme, with each constituent being given a tiered weighting. In order to efficiently maintain the configurations and ensure all corporate actions are handled appropriately, we are working with business information provider IHS Markit, a leading source of independent valuation services for exchange
In the current climate, investors are looking for more defensive hedge fund strategies, capable of providing a predictable risk/return profile.
Alternative investment management team Evanston Capital Management’s (ECM) management team has completed the purchase of the minority equity stake owned by certain private investment funds affiliated with TA Associates (TA).
Victor Argonov, senior analyst and crypto specialist at International Investment firm, EXANTE, believes, the cryptocurrencies could ultimately benefit from the current coronavirus crisis…We have recently seen some of the sharpest market crashes in history. From February 20 to mid-March, the key American indices have dropped by around 30 per cent, while the cryptocurrency and oil markets have dropped by more than 50 per cent. The crisis was mainly caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but the split among the OPEC+ countries that could not reach a consensus about decreasing the oil production rates was also another destabilising factor.
However, in spite
Activist hedge fund manager CIAM has written to shareholders of French reinsurer SCOR to warn of significant corporate governance deficiencies at the firm, and has called on the company to postpone its upcoming AGM.
Swedish hedge fund firm Bodenholm Capital is to close after Brummer & Partners, one of the major investors in its funds, announced its decision to withdraw capital.
Bodenholm One, a long/short equity hedge fund whose portfolio is built around fundamental stock analysis, is one of several strategies offered on Brummer & Partners’ flagship Brummer Multi-Strategy vehicle.
BMS has invested in Bodenholm since the latter’s inception in September 2015, and is understood to have held a stake of more than 40 per cent.
“For some time we have had a dialogue with Bodenholm about the fund’s management and risk where it
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