By Hedge Fund Insight staff Liquid alternatives have seen strong industry growth, outpacing traditional hedge funds, according to “Going Mainstream: Developments and Opportunities for Hedge Fund Managers in the ’40 Act Space,” an April 2014 study by Barclays Prime Services. The study found that in 2013, liquid alts assets grew by 43%, while hedge […] Read more »
Best Opportunity In European Long Short In 5 years
From RWC Partners Limited Commenting on the current opportunities for long short equity investors in Europe, Ajay Gambhir, portfolio manager of RWC Samsara and RWC European Absolute Alpha Funds, said: “The large yield gap between European equities and European credit opens up the opportunity for capital to rotate into European stocks. Additionally, the dislocations in […] Read more »
High Probability Of Big Turn In Equities According To HED Capital
By Richard Edwards, Managing Director of HED Capital There is a large three-day turn cluster in equities that is due to start today the 9th April and which is at its densest on Friday, the 11th April – this is the most likely date in the cluster for a high or low point to be […] Read more »
Why Data Visualisation Matters In Financial Software
By thecitysecret Ltd Introduction Over the past 20 years trading systems have not changed radically in terms of appearance, although the amount of available data has greatly increased. There are countless examples of overly-complex, multi-tabbed interfaces each with an array of grids, sub grids, drop-downs, tick boxes and confusing graphs. These are normally accompanied […] Read more »
Baer Maintains Bearish Outlook On Soybeans
By Warren Kreyzig, Commodities Analyst at Bank Julius Baer Although South America remains on track for a record soybean harvest this year and increasing global stockpiles, soybean prices have risen as of late on the fears of a very tight outlook for year-end supplies in the United States. source: Barchart.com Lower-than-expected Chinese export cancellations […] Read more »
The Hedge Fund HOT 100 2014
By Staff Writers of Hedge Fund Insight, led by Simon Kerr Welcome to the second edition of The Hedge Fund Hot 100. As last year the aim is to capture what is emerging and trending and growing in the hedge fund industry. The absolute is interesting, and it is covered elsewhere in […] Read more »
Critical Areas of Liability Coverage for Hedge Fund Managers and Directors
By Richard A. Maloy, Jr, CIC CRM, CEO Maloy Risk Services, Inc. In the fourth quarter of 2008, several marquee funds and many smaller funds closed their doors due to poor performance, which became the first in a string of prominent fund closures over the next three years. Many of the funds were suffering […] Read more »
Nordic Market Is Well Suited For An Absolute Return Equity Strategy Says Sector AM
By Jannik Arvesena and Bjørn Tore Urdal, Sector Asset Management “If you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking. The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables of everything from economic competitiveness to social health to happiness” […] Read more »
Special Situations Funds Ride The Wave Of M&A In February
From Lyxor Asset Management The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +1.9% in February, bringing year to date performance to +1.45%. 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 12 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+3.48%), the Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.4%) and the Lyxor L/S Equity […] Read more »
Denying Deflation; Definitely Dangerous
From Stephen Pope, Managing Partner, Spotlight Ideas Economic sentiment rose to 101.2. Business Climate Index increased to 0.37. Consumer expectations for CPI declined to 13.6. German CPI falling; R2 with Eurozone 0.8929. ECB must act on March 6th. This penultimate day of February delivered a mixed bag of news for the Eurozone. On the positive […] Read more »