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The substantial withdrawal of bank finance seen over the course of the last three years has created a financing vacuum in the UK corporate lending market, and constrained lending practices continue to frustrate business leaders and entrepreneurs.
The downturn, which commenced in 2007 and which has had such an impact on the financial services industry, has led to a fundamental erosion of trust and confidence, and investors are today seeking a differing quality of engagement, new structures and new products.
This new paradigm is creating significant investment opportunities for private capital, according to Cresco Capital.
Founded by equity and lending
Atlantic Asset Management, Montage Asset Management and Palmer Square Capital Management have formed a joint venture to make seed investments in hedge funds.
The Seed Fund is designed to not only provide investment capital to emerging hedge funds, but also to supply investment managers with access to the combined platform, including the distribution channels, business and investment infrastructure, of Atlantic, Montage and Palmer Square.
The fund will primarily target talented emerging hedge fund managers with existing track records or experienced investment professionals spinning out of investment banks and established hedge funds to launch new funds.
The fund anticipates investing primarily
ABC Quant, part of Quant Risk Group Hedge Fund Analytics companies, has hired Peter J. de Marigny, manager of Equity Hedge DITMo Strategies, to represent Quant Suite.
Marigny says: "As a certified financial risk manager and PM of DITMo Strategies, I recognise that higher moment analytics are required for fund of hedge funds and institutional investors to adequately evaluate hedge funds for any predictive added value.
“I found Quant Suite to be the most economic and robust choice that offers higher moments analytics unlike many popular analytics apps that are only useful for marketing materials, so I asked to rep
Global hedge funds finally reversed two consecutive months of declines by making positive returns in July, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index
New York-based hedge fund guru, Phil Falcone (pictured), is preparing to make his first foray into the Asia region with the launch of a Pan-Asia fund next month, reports FINalternatives.
When UK-based Matrix Group decided to launch its Matrix Asia Fund
Hong Kong-based Diamond Dragon Advisors Ltd, Asia’s first independent general partner advisory and fund placement firm established by industry veteran Ed Greene
Asia’s fourth largest emerging stock market, Taiwan, is in talks with the region’s largest – Japan – to cross-list its exchange-traded f
The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Index rose by 1.72 per cent in July and 1.84 per cent in the first seven months of 2010.
The S&P 500 Total Return Index was up 7.01 per cent in July and down 0.11 per cent YTD.
Hedge fund assets increased by an estimated 1.37 per cent in July to USD2.249trn. Investor’s flows accounted for an estimated net increase of USD9.3bn, the second highest monthly net investor inflow in 2010. Performance added an additional USD21.09bn.
Positive net investor flows in July followed the industry’s first net outflow in June. The return to net inflows
