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SS&C Technologies Holdings has announced that the gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for May 2021 measured 0.54 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.33 per cent in June.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for June 2021 was 0.33 per cent, reflecting positive net flows into hedge funds. On a year-over-year basis, this result was essentially in line with the flows reported a year ago of 0.35 per cent,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Year-to-date net flows are positive and running ahead
Cryptocurrencies continue to face considerable counterparty and exchange risk, which threatens to turn away larger institutional investors from the market – and industry participants say more should be done to bridge the infrastructure gap between digital and traditional assets.
Man Group’s chief investment officer Sandy Rattray (pictured) is retiring from his role at the London-based publicly-traded global asset management and hedge fund group.
In a new white paper, Merrill Sepehrnia, Head of Total Return Sustainability at Pictet Asset Management, explains why hedge funds are well placed to uncover ESG issues and help drive the ESG agenda forward.
He argues that while “sustainable investment is usually associated with a long-term, buy and hold approach, hedge funds are arguably at least as well-placed as their long-only peers in using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to construct portfolios. Their ability to go long and short can be a considerable advantage. Not least when it comes to holding companies to account for poor governance.
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Toronto Trust Management Ltd (TTML) has that, until further notice, acceptance of new subscriptions for units of Friedberg Global-Macro Hedge Fund – one of the Friedberg Alternative Mutual Funds – will be limited so as to match, as clearly as possible, the amount of cash outflows of the Fund, primarily due to redemptions and fees.
Redemptions are not being suspended.
Units of the Fund are offered under the simplified prospectus of the Friedberg Alternative Mutual Funds.
TTML will review this decision on an ongoing basis, with a view to fully reopening the Fund to new subscriptions when appropriate.
Few sectors have endured such colossal price swings and asset volatility in recent weeks as cryptocurrencies, but speakers at the inaugural DigitalAssetsLIVE summit on Thursday said evolving market infrastructure, growing product selection, and positive investment performance continue to drive digital assets’ institutionalisation, drawing more capital allocators into this once frontier market.
Decentralisation of cryptocurrencies is helping curb systemic risk amid the ongoing digital asset price volatility, Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, told Hedgeweek on Thursday.
Emles Advisors (Emles) has launched a new actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF); the Emles Alpha Opportunities ETF (EOPS), providing institutional investors with access to a hedge fund strategy through an ETF structure.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) can enhance ESG Investing in a variety of ways, from building alpha-generating strategies to monitoring controversy risk across portfolios.
Investors can make the most of the global trend in ESG investing using NLP technology, such as that developed by RavenPack, the company I work for.
RavenPack generates analytics by scanning online news, identifying entities, tying them to events, and then calculating sentiment. It has a rich ESG event taxonomy covering a wide range of controversies, from news about companies being fined for pollution, to labor disputes, to lawsuits.
This enables the large-scale tracking of controversies, covering
Most hedge fund managers have taken action to protect their firm’s data from external attacks. However, there is a growing recognition of the importance of shielding the firm from risks which can breed within the firm itself, and also protecting data in transit particularly in the hybrid working environment most of the world currently finds itself in.
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