From Activist Insight In The Activist Investing Annual Review 2014, Activist Insight looked at which activists created the biggest splash in 2013. Using its unique database, the company gave each of these well-known activists a ranking for categories such as the number of new investments in 2013, the average size of these investments, and […] Read more »
Asian hedge fund industry hotspots: HK & Singapore for HQs, Greater China for mandates
From Eurekahedge The Asian hedge fund industry delivered excellent performance in 2013, beating underlying markets and outperforming its global peers during the year. The Eurekahedge Asia Hedge Fund Index gained 16.10% in 2013 with the total assets under management (AUM) increasing by US$20.6 billion. This brings the total size of the Asian hedge fund industry […] Read more »
Top Five Things To Put In Your Hedge Fund Presentation
By William Battersby, Asset Dynamics Ltd. The marketer’s life revolves around presentations –planning them, making them, arranging them and updating them. The marketer’s tool is almost universally PowerPoint. Whether delivering a lecture to a hall of 500 people, or a one on one briefing, the marketer rarely risks any meeting without having something produced […] Read more »
Commodity Charts Of Interest On A Weekly Timeframe – Cocoa, Coffee & Sugar
By Andy Hecht, author of “How to Make Money with Commodities” On October 15, 2013, we took a look at the action in soft commodities. Since then, one of the luxury commodities has made a new low, one is marginally higher, and the other has exploded. Sugar: The Potential Bottom Gave Way to […] Read more »
UCITS Hedge Funds – Fund Raising Winners
By Kepler Partners LLP Having previously focused only on alternative UCITS strategies with a UK registration, to reflect the increasingly global nature of alternative UCITS we have expanded the universe we analyse to include all alternative UCITS funds regardless of their domicile. By the end of 2013 the alternative UCITS sector now controls over […] Read more »
Stock and Futures Sentiment from Social Media and News Analysis
By Bill Dennis, CEO of EOTPRO Developments Inc. This article will discuss social media and news analytics sentiment for short term intraday trading. We will outline our experience surrounding both data sets and highlight some common challenges that users may experience when incorporating this data into their workflow. Finally, we will explain how we […] Read more »
Asian Hedge Funds Draw Flows At Record Pace
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Investor capital continued to pour into the Asian hedge fund industry in late 2013 and early 2014, with record inflows and performance driving total investor capital to surpass the record level set in 2007, prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Total capital invested in the Asian hedge fund industry grew […] Read more »
KKR Excited By The Potential For Growth Of European Credit Through Avoca
By Hedge Fund Insight staff KKR is in the process of acquiring European credit manager Avoca. During the Fourth Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call Scott Nuttall, the Global Head of Capital & Asset Management at KKR & Co LP, talked enthusiastically about the business prospects of Avoca within the KKR framework. Nuttall said that Avoca […] Read more »
AIFMD remuneration code published: KPMG comments
From KPMG The Financial Conduct Authority’s eagerly awaited final guidance on the AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive) remuneration regime has been published. The guidance sets out how the AIFM Remuneration Code should be interpreted and applied by alternative investment fund managers. Dan Roman, UK head of hedge funds at KPMG, commented: “The guidance […] Read more »
ECM Explain Their Low Exposure To Emerging Market Sovereign Bonds And Credits
By Satish Pulle, Lead Portfolio Manager at ECM Asset Management The IMF’s October 2013 Financial Stability report has some comprehensive analysis of the market factors affecting emerging market debt. While there is not a great deal of new information, the data is useful to understand the drivers behind the current weakness and more importantly, […] Read more »