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Hedge fund equity ownership – measured as an aggregate of 13F filings – decreased dramatically from December 2021 to May 2022 from $4.225 trillion to $3.434 trillion – a drop of 18.72%, according to data release by SEI Novus.
Th aggregated 13f filings from long-short equity managers also show that from December 2021 to May 2022, exposure across most sectors remained steady apart from energy which jumped by 80% from 3.6% to 6.5%.
From Q2 2021 to Q2 2022, large cap ownership decreased from 29.64% to 27.66% and mega cap ownership declined from 44.17% to 43.47%, while small cap ownership
Coinciding with the company’s 10-year anniversary of factor investing in credits, Robeco has launched RobecoSAM QI Global SDG & Climate Multi-Factor Credits, its first SDG and climate-focused quant fixed income strategy, classified as Article 9 under the SFDR.
While the strategy’s performance is driven by Robeco’s multi-factor credit selection model, which has been applied to client portfolios since 2012, it has sustainability as its primary objective. Committing to carbon footprint reduction, the strategy is measured against the Solactive Paris-Aligned Global Corporate Index, with the portfolio’s average carbon emissions kept below the Paris-aligned credit benchmark. This has 50% lower carbon emissions
Jensen Investment Management, a 100% employee-owned high-conviction equity investment management firm, has appointed Shannon Contreras to Jensen Investment Management’s Board of Directors.
Contreras joined Jensen in 2014 and has been the firm’s director of finance and senior compliance officer. She also serves as treasurer of the Jensen Quality Growth Fund.
Contreras holds a BS in business from University of California, Riverside, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in accounting from Portland State University.
Bosonic, a decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI) business has launched the Bosonic Cross-Custodian Net Settlement (CCNS) Working Group with several of the industry’s leading digital asset custodians, exchanges and banks.
The industry group will be spearheaded by Bosonic and will include a worldwide network of digital asset custodians such as First Digital in Hong Kong, Tetra Trust in Canada and Vast Bank in the United States, with other custodian banks as well as major financial institutions and exchanges participating and soon to be announced.
This is an industry first to include a range of institutional custodians from around the
Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent fund administrator in the alternative investment space, has selected NTT Ltd as its managed cloud services provider.
The hedge fund industry posted a loss of -0.66% in May, though losses narrowed from April’s decline of -2.35% according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index eked out a slim gain of 0.18% in May.
For the year-to-date, hedge funds were down -5.88% through May, bettering the S&P 500 Total Return Index which lost -12.76% over the same period.
Among hedge fund subsectors, the balance was tilted decidedly to those losing ground for the month, with approximately two-thirds of subsectors in the red for
Gibraltar maintain its place as the third preferred jurisdiction for the domiciliation of hedge funds, behind the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, and ahead of the United States, according to the fourth annual research report into the global Crypto Hedge Fund space, commissioned by PwC and Elwood Asset Management.
Although the Cayman Islands maintained its top position, the British Virgin Islands replaced the US in second spot.
The data confirms that funds tend to be domiciled in the same jurisdictions as traditional hedge funds, supported by one of Gibraltar’s leading crypto and funds law firms, ISOLAS LLP.
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of cryptocurrency data on the Bloomberg Terminal to include the top 50 crypto assets, including bitcoin, ether, binance coin, XRP, solana and more.
Clients can now monitor intraday pricing for an expanded universe of cryptos, indices and futures contracts in real-time for faster, data-driven investment decisions.
Bloomberg takes a data-driven approach to selecting the cryptocurrency data to include on the Bloomberg Terminal and ensures that approach evolves along with the crypto markets. The company has developed a rigorous vetting model, available to view on the Bloomberg Terminal, that takes into account its institutional client
Some of brazil’s top hedge fund managers are turning to inflation-linked bonds to protect themselves from the fallout of the government’s bid to reduce fuel prices which they believe could see the country’s fiscal outlook worsen, according to a report by BNN Bloomberg.
A run of strong returns over the past two years has prompted hedge fund boss Bob Bishop to close Impala Asset Management and covert to a family office, according to a report by Bloomberg.
