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Part 1 – Choosing the right structure: For any Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), the main factors that define the success of their business will be the amount of capital they are able to raise and the performance of the funds that they manage.
INSIGHT REPORT
Andra Ofosu, founder of Black Hedge Fund Professionals Network and director, US SALES, Aspect Capital, speaks on the diversity, equity and inclusion challenges in the hedge fund industry and advises on solutions for improvement.
INSIGHT REPORT
With recent research from Knight Foundation revealing that as little as 0.04% per cent of US-based AuM is managed by diverse-owned hedge funds, investors are increasingly requesting data and actively looking to invest in diverse funds.
Anatole Investment Management Ltd’s flagship hedge fund has changed tack and adopted a more defensive investment stance in a bid to stem recent losses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
INSIGHT REPORT
With the ESG juggernaut gathering pace in financial markets, how hedge funds traverse short-selling challenges, tech advances, and the data “wild west” will be key to unlocking future returns.
Long seen as the preserve of traditional long-only buy-and-hold strategies, impact investing and sustainability-focused themes have gathered pace within the global alternative investment community over the past decade.
In times past, industry concerns centred around whether effective ESG implementation could ever be compatible with alpha generation. But as allocators place greater scrutiny on how their portfolios and investments can meet the expanding set of climate change, diversity and corporate governance challenges,
Melvin Capital Management, the hedge fund that lost billions of dollars during last year’s meme-stock rally, has told clients it is to shut down its funds having taken another big hit from this year’s market slump, according to a report by Reuters.
INSIGHT REPORT
About a third of hedge funds invest in ESG-dedicated strategies leading to investment demand being considered a ‘primary driver’ in improving ESG, research from BNP Paribas shows. One-fifth of investors plan to increase this in 2022 and a further 23 per cent are considering an investment.
Pensions remain the leaders in this space, with analysis showing how 25 per cent of public pension funds invested in ESG hedge funds along with 22 per cent of corporate pension funds.
Societal trends, greater awareness regarding the environment and equality, and efforts from governments have all pushed institutional investors in particular to want
Allianz Global Investors US (AGI US), the US hedge fund unit of German insurance giant Allianz, is to pay USD5.8 billion after pleading guilty to fraud over the collapse of its Structured Alpha funds in 2020.
Demand for aggregating financial information and internal research in one central location has been growing. As hedge fund analysts look to manage information overload and several disparate manual research processes, an overlay of AI-processing power and content can cut research time to a fraction of what it previously was and help elicit more relevant insights.
The coming years will set the scene for technology advancements and geographic growth as clients call for an innovative and competitive alternative to incumbent providers in the prime brokerage space. Given the current volatility and additional scrutiny, reliable providers are critical to managers’ survival, particularly in the context of increasing consolidation.
