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Argo Group Hedge Fund Commitments Down By Two-Thirds Over Four Years

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Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE: ARGO), the Bermuda domiciled property/casualty insurer, produced results this week, giving an opportunity for observers to look at its’ hedge fund holdings. Argo Group has invested in hedge funds for more than eight years. At the end of 2020 Argo Group had $111.2m committed to hedge funds out of total invested assets of […]

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Investors

Argo Group Hedge Fund Commitments Down By Two-Thirds Over Four Years

Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE: ARGO), the Bermuda domiciled property/casualty insurer, produced results this week, giving an opportun[...] Read more »

Small Business Creation Accelerates to New Level – Graphic of the Day

Despite a global health crisis and one of the most impactful economic disruptors in recent history, records indicate an explosion in new businesses. T[...] Read more »

Novus Analytics Available Via iConnections Partnership

By Hedge Fund Insight staff   iConnections, the platform and community that connects investment managers and allocators, today announced that it [...] Read more »

Marketing

You Need To Time Your Newsletter Just As You Time Markets

By Bobby Chernev of Review42.com   What Is the Bes[...] Read more »

Pre-marketing And Reverse Solicitation Of Hedge Funds

By Vanessa Molloy and Chiara Deceglie of Harneys &nb[...] Read more »

Social Media Use By Hedge Funds – Graphic Of The Day

From The PwC/AIMA Global Alternatives Distribution Surv[...] Read more »

Investor Relations – The Strategic Approach Works Best According to Survey

By  Jeremie Bacon (CEO) and Ashley Kramer (Marketing [...] Read more »

HF Managers

QuantCube launches new indicators – NO2 pollution and water stress included

From Hedge Fund Insight staff A new set of real-time ec[...] Read more »

Davidson Kempner Secures THE DEAL in European NPLs

By Hedge Fund Insight staff Davidson Kempner, the $34bn[...] Read more »

Surge in Interest from Hedge Funds in Private Jets Expected

From Hedge Fund Insight staff A bumper year for hedge [...] Read more »

Event Driven Input – Entertainment And Media Industry Set For M&A Boom

By Paul Bernstein of Venable LLP   One of the o[...] Read more »

Shorts and Humour

Active Credit Managers – Long/Short Credit Funds have Leptokurtic Return Distribution

From the paper by Diogo Palhares & Scott Richar[...] Read more »

Graphic of the Day: CTA Launches Surpassed by Liquidations

The number of active CTAs peaked in 2013, five years af[...] Read more »

Large Hedge Funds Bear The Brunt of Redemptions – Graphic of the Day

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Risk Management/ Consulting

7 Precepts For Shorting From Andrew Left of Citron Research

By Hedge Fund Insight staff   Andrew Left’s [...] Read more »

Holiday Reading for Traders & Investors

By Stephen Hoad, CEO of The Stop Hunter   With su[...] Read more »

Edge Technology Keeps Leadership Position

By Hedge Fund Insight staff   Edge Technology Grou[...] Read more »

Investment Management and AI: More Partnership Than Takeover

By Clare Flynn Levy of Essentia Analytics   In th[...] Read more »

Interviews & Podcasts

720° Shows How To Work With NPLs in CEE – Podcast

At the Distressed Investments Forum held by DDC Financi[...] Read more »

The Revival of the Market for Securitization of NPLs in Italy – A Podcast with Michelangelo Margaria of Moody’s

At the Distressed Investments Forum held by DDC Financi[...] Read more »

Investing in Life Policies with Jonas Mårtenson of Ress Capital

From HedgeNordic   The market for alternative inve[...] Read more »

Organising Research & Staff Development in Equity Hedge – A Podcast with Stuart Mitchell

An interview with Managing Partner and CIO STUART MITCH[...] Read more »

Regulation

Pre-marketing And Reverse Solicitation Of Hedge Funds

By Vanessa Molloy and Chiara Deceglie of Harneys &nb[...] Read more »

Infographic: Financial Service Cyber Attacks Up Fivefold In 2018

From TransWorldCom   According to the Financial C[...] Read more »

Citco Reaches $1Trillion AuA Milestone

From Hedge Fund Insight staff reporter   The Citco[...] Read more »

Brexit – The End Game & Solutions For Funds

By Marco Boldini, head of financial services regulatory[...] Read more »

Publisher’s Letter

From Simon Kerr

Hedge Fund Insight has come back during the covid pandemic. Recent articles reflect waning insurance company demand for hedge funds,  big data, and new inputs to decision-making at hedge funds. As before HFI captures wider trends through the particular. For example, the article on York Capital Man[...]

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  • Argo Group Hedge Fund Commitments Down By Two-Thirds Over Four Years
  • QuantCube launches new indicators – NO2 pollution and water stress included
  • Small Business Creation Accelerates to New Level – Graphic of the Day
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  • Surge in Interest from Hedge Funds in Private Jets Expected
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