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A ‘patriotic bias’ towards London-listed stocks has increased among UK hedge funds during the Covid-19 pandemic, and is stifling managers’ efforts to diversify portfolios, according to a new industry survey.
NEWS
Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund firm co-founded by Alan Howard, has taken a minority stake in 1543 Capital, an alternative credit and structured finance-focused investment manager, as part of a new strategic partnership.
QUANT FUNDS
The “explosive” upward price movements in energy markets are helping power performance among machine-based hedge funds this year, as CTAs and trend-following strategies successfully lock onto strong price signals.
ALLOCATOR PROFILE
Stamford Associates, a relatively small and selective London-based investment advisor, has occupied an influential niche in the UK’s investment space for over 30 years. This influence is not necessarily a result of its ability to predict investment trends, nor a taste for the esoteric.
HEDGE FUNDS
Hedge funds’ confidence continues to rise, with managers across the UK, Europe and Asia all bullish on their business prospects heading into the final quarter of the year, a key industry sentiment index shows.
SHORT-SELLING
Sainsbury’s, Ocado and Hargreaves Lansdown remain among the most heavily shorted stocks on the UK FTSE 100 according to new market data from Ortex Analytics, as the UK’s blue-chip index started the fourth quarter with a slide.
FUNDS
New hedge fund launches continue to outnumber closures this year, new industry data shows.
ACTIVIST INVESTING
TCI Fund Management, Sir Christopher Hohn’s activist hedge fund, says there is a “a deliberate lack of transparency” and “a selective approach to disclosure with respect to governance matters” at Canadian National Railway.
Q&A
Established by founder and managing partner Natalie Hwang (pictured), New York-based Apeira Capital Advisors is a creative venture capital asset manager which uses long/short hedge fund investing techniques to invest in a broad range of private technology companies.
Prior to unveiling the firm in spring 2020, Hwang had been founder and managing director of Simon Ventures, the venture capital unit of Simon Property Group, where she built and managed a global consumers-focused technology fund. Her experience also encompasses hedge fund seeding at The Blackstone Group.
Apeira focuses primarily on early growth companies that have reached an inflective point of scale,
IFPR COMPLIANCE
Hedge funds and other alternative asset managers have just three months left to prepare for the Investment Firms Prudential Regime, the far-reaching new regulatory framework which potentially heralds “complex and multi-faceted” compliance processes for firms.
