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EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
The use of data within the hedge fund industry has grown exponentially over the past decade, with fund managers from across the spectrum increasingly turning to ever-more complex datasets in a bid to stay ahead of the competition.
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
This year’s hedgeweekLIVE European Emerging Managers Summit concluded with a wide-ranging panel discussion centred on fundraising, with speakers examining some of the ways start-up hedge funds can successfully attract investor money during the challenging capital-raising process.
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
PARTNER FEATURE
The ability of financial market operators to reinvent and innovate has been one of the key successes driving industry growth in the last decade. With the events of the past 12 months creating an increasingly challenging market backdrop, Mario Sanchez (photographed above), Managing Director and Global Head of Sales at FXCM Pro, sheds light on FXCM Pro’s latest innovation to better meet the needs of wholesale market participants – a CFD Prime service.
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
With many hedge funds delivering long-only or beta-type returns over the past decade, downward pressure on fees has intensified in recent years, and the ways in which start-up managers can look to draw allocator money has been the focus of fierce debate as fee models have shifted.
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
The selection of service providers – be they prime brokers, administrators or software systems – is more important than ever before following the seismic upheaval faced by hedge fund firms over the past 18 months.
EUROPEAN EMERGING MANAGERS SUMMIT
European Emerging Managers Summit
This year’s hedgeweekLIVE European Emerging Managers Summit examined how start-up funds can best organise their approach to operational due diligence, with attendees hearing how cybersecurity and succession planning have emerged as key considerations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
European Emerging Managers Summit
European Emerging Managers Summit
The Cayman Islands remains the gold standard jurisdiction for start-up and emerging hedge funds when it comes to legal and fund structuring considerations, offering a “tried and tested” environment for new launches, according to speakers on the opening panel of this year’s hedgeweekLIVE European Emerging Managers Summit.
European Emerging Managers Summit
HEDGE FUNDS
The sweeping changes and far-reaching trade upheaval brought about by Brexit and Covid-19 heralds sizable investment opportunities for hedge fund managers, according to a new study by IG Prime.
The report – ‘An Analysis of Post-Brexit Economies’ – examines the impact of Brexit on international trade, gauging potential growth areas in specific sectors, and considers the broader trends unfolding from evolving international trade patterns as a result of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.
Specifically, the report probes the UK’s main exports prior to Brexit – such as precious metals, vehicles, and pharmaceutical products – as well as the
HEDGE FUNDS
Hedge funds are ramping up their negative positions against Hargreaves Lansdown, with the UK retail-focused investment and advisory firm now the most shorted stock among FTSE 100 names, new market data from Ortex Analytics shows.
SUSTAINABLE INVESTING
Fund managers and investors remain split over how they integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their risk and investment processes, with industry participants citing a lack of clarity over data reliability, comparability and standardisation as the main challenge.
