Lyxor Asset Management offers a range of risk-balanced funds in its Absolute Return Multi Assets (ARMA) strategy: ARMA was launched in May 2010 and aims to deliver EONIA plus 2 per cent p.a. with a volatility target of 3 per cent; ARMA 8 is a more aggressive version targeting returns of EONIA plus 6 to 10 per cent with a volatility target of 8 per cent. Florence Barjou (pictured) is Head of Multi Asset Investments and portfolio manager for the ARMA funds. Explaining the investment philosophy Barjou comments: “The aim is to generate absolute returns in a long-only framework using

Philippe Jabre has been successfully managing convertible bonds for 30 years. Whilst at GLG Partners (between 1997 and 2006), Jabre honed his convertible bond strategy resulting in five funds with a combined AuM of USD7bn at its peak. In 2007, Jabre branched out and launched the JABCAP Convertible Bond Fund with founding partners, Mark Cecil (pictured) and Philippe Riachi. Since inception the fund has generated consistently strong returns by combining a top-down thematic macro-driven approach with rigorous bottom-up fundamental analysis to identify the best trading opportunities within the convertible bonds market.   The fund portfolio currently holds approximately 111 convertible bond positions

The Europa Event Driven Fund is managed by José Luis Pérez. Pérez (pictured) aims to capture investment opportunities around corporate activity in Europe through inefficiencies and under or over-valuations relating to M&A, capital structure changes, spin-offs, regulatory changes, recapitalisations, restructurings and bankruptcies. “The investment philosophy for the Europa fund is to generate performance for our clients while employing active risk management. In that sense, we like to invest in situations where there is asymmetry between significant upside and limited downside, or if there isn’t limited downside that there are ways to hedge away the tail risk,” explains Pérez.   Typically, the

The Hedgeweek Global Awards 2014 event, sponsored by Lyxor Asset Management and held at the end of February, featured winners from across the hedge funds spectrum who gathered in London’s Mayfair to celebrate a year of illustrious achievement. In her opening address at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2014 event, Florence Barjou, Head of Multi Asset Investments and portfolio manager for the ARMA funds, Lyxor Asset Management, said that buy and hold would not be a key strategy in 2014. “If you look at fundamentals we are clearly in a situation where cyclical risks are receding and market conditions are steadily

The winners of the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2014, as voted for by our readers… Best Macro Manager – Blue Sky Capital Management Best Event Driven Activist Manager – Third Point LLC Best Event Driven Merger Arbitrage Manager – Paulson & Co Best Event Driven Distressed Manager – Dromeus Capital Group Best Event Driven Multi-Strategy Manager – Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC, SA Best Relative Value Convertible Bond Manager – Jabre Capital Partners Best Relative Value Volatility Arbitrage Manager – Antecedo Asset Management Best Relative Value Fixed Income Arbitrage Manager – Danske Invest Hedge Fixed Income Strategies Best Relative Value Multi-Strategy Manager