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An energy evolution is underway, with alternative energy quickly becoming a more widely accepted reality in the sector, creating new investment opportunities, according to a new paper from Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management.
Co-authored by Chat Reynders, CEO and Chairman of Reynders, McVeigh, and Patrick McVeigh, President and Chief Investment Officer, Defining a New Approach to Energy highlights three areas poised for growth as the energy field evolves:
• Accelerating next generation ethanol
• More efficient technology is disrupting the biofuel space, leading to second generation processes that maximise crop waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Behind the scenes of
If investors want to benefit from sophisticated risk management and asset allocation tools like those used by major institutional investors, they will need to become familiar with liquid alternatives, says Forward Management.
As described in Forward's new investor guide – 7 Things to Know About Investing With Liquid Alts – liquid alternatives are a new breed of hybrid mutual funds combining hedge-fund-style strategies with the liquidity, transparency and regulatory oversight of the mutual fund structure. Forward was among the first wave of asset managers to develop alternative strategies structured as mutual funds.
"Liquid alts are relatively new and unfamiliar to
Steben & Company has appointed Peter Weinberg as Head of Investor Relations & Marketing.
"The success we have had with our funds creates the need for an increased focus on competitively marketing our products. Peter is ideally suited to help us better position and communicate the merits of our alternative investment products to the marketplace as we continue to build on our distribution efforts," says Ken Steben, CEO and President of Steben & Company.
Weinberg joins from SkyBridge Capital, a USD13 billion fund of hedge funds business, where he spent four years as the Head of Investor Relations. He has
In an extract from the Preqin Hedge Fund Spotlight | May 2015, Joseph McGee takes a look at the ‘USD1bn Club’, a group of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, and identifies the traits and characteristics that are unique to this distinguished group which controls a vast proportion of industry capital.
Over the past year, hedge fund industry assets have increased, surpassing the USD3tn mark as of December 2014. One notable group active in this space is managers with at least USD1bn in assets under management (AUM) – the ‘USD1bn Club’ – comprised of some of the largest hedge
ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO) has launched ENSO Color Portal, which allows managers to receive prices and anecdotal colour tailored specifically to their trading activities.
Hedge funds typically receive an extensive amount of information from brokers – most of which is not related to their actual portfolios. ENSO Color Portal allows them to customise, qualify and rank the commentary and balance sheet opportunities they want, all in seconds.
ENSO Color Portal revolutionises the way that dealers interact with hedge funds. Apart from allowing them to communicate rates and commentary to both existing and future clients, they can now quantify the number
Intralinks’ Todd Partridge (pictured) advises a multi-pillar approach to guard against cyber attack.
In light of high-profile hacking events, where the likes of JP Morgan, Home Depot, and, most notably, Sony suffered significant losses of information, it is incumbent upon organisations to think more holistically about governance. Enterprise must put in place a security framework that incorporates people, processes, and technology.
This is especially important for hedge fund managers, who share sensitive portfolio and investor information with various counterparties across external networks. These data-transfer channels are potential weak points for hackers to exploit.
Todd Partridge (pictured) is an executive
Emerging markets hedge funds have benefited from the strong recovery of the Russian Rouble, higher oil prices, lowering of interest rates by the Chinese Central Bank, and a surge in trading volume on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program.
As a result of these, hedge funds investing in Russia and China posted strong gains in recent months, with the HFRI EM: Russia/Eastern Europe gaining nearly 20 per cent since the start of February, and the HFRI EM: China Index adding over 20 per cent YTD 2015 through April.
Despite volatility to conclude 2014, total hedge fund capital invested in Emerging
Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a manager of private equity and real asset solutions with offices in Stamford CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
This acquisition is in line with Aberdeen’s strategy to strengthen and grow its global alternatives platform and solutions provision via multi-manager coverage of hedge funds, property and private market allocations, infrastructure investments and pan-alternative capabilities. FLAG’s well-established private equity teams in the US and Asia will help broaden Aberdeen’s private markets solutions activity within the alternatives arena.
As of 31 December, 2014, FLAG managed assets of approximately USD6.3 billion
Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an investment management firm focused on providing opportunistic fixed income investment solutions, has reached USD5 billion in assets under management across its family of investment products.
“Angel Oak Capital continues to grow as we identify new ways to provide innovative solutions for fixed income investors,” says co-founder and managing partner Brad Friedlander. “We are pleased to have achieved such a significant milestone and believe the continued demand for less traditional, credit-focused fixed income products will allow us greater room to grow.”
The company’s two public mutual funds, the Angel Oak Multi-Strategy Income Fund (ANGLX), which received
The hedge fund industry has now reached USD3.16 trillion in assets as of the end of Q1 2015, but a growing proportion of these assets are concentrated among a small pool of large managers, according to Preqin’s latest hedge fund spotlight.
The “USD1 billion Club”, which now includes 570 managers, represents 11 per cent of the total 5,122 single-manager hedge fund managers across the globe. But these firms command a total of USD2.78 trillion of industry capital, which amounts to 92 per cent of the total assets in hedge funds.
Some 22 fund managers currently handle USD20 billion or more
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