by Hedge Fund Insight staff Michael Platt, the co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, not only remains the richest hedge fund manager in Britain he has extended the gap to the rest of the pack. With a net worth of £3.7 billion, according to the Sunday Times, he is £2bn wealthier than the next hedgie, having been £1.6bn […] Read more »
Seeding Deals Study From Seward & Kissel
Seward & Kissel LLP’s Seed Transactions Deal Points Study draws from over 150 data points amassed over a five-year observation period. The Study identifies market trends and provides both quantitative data and qualitative explanations of the state of the seeding industry. The data illustrates the rise of seed deals year over year, with institutional seeders […] Read more »
Risk Management at Citadel
From Hedge Fund Insight Chicago-based Citadel LLC, through it’s two huge flagship funds, put in a good first quarter performance with a gain of 6.35%. The $29bn firm is one of the biggest hedge fund managers in the world, and has been run by CEO Ken Griffin since inception. He oversees more than 675 investment […] Read more »
‘Front-Office First’ Approach Sought For Investment Research Management/Monitoring
By Henry Price, CEO of Red Deer In this article Henry Price responds to FCA Chief Executive Andrew Bailey’s keynote speech on MiFID II at the European Independent Research providers association today. Ongoing client issues: Where investment managers have implemented legacy or non-compliant systems, or attempted to solve a problem manually, there is now a significant push […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Launch Phase Checklist From haysmacintyre
By Karen Allan, audit manager, haysmacintyre Launching a hedge fund can be both an exciting and daunting opportunity. There are many regulatory and administrative hoops to jump through. Here we explore the 5 key areas you need to consider for a successful launch. Prove your track record When launching a new fund, it is […] Read more »
Listed Hedge Funds to Go From Growth to Shrinkage
By Hedge Fund Insight staff There will be new issuance of £11.3bn in UK listed investment companies over the next three years with two thirds of this new issuance to occur in alternative investments.”The number of alternative investment companies launched in the last five and ten years was more than twice as high as […] Read more »
Investor Relations – The Strategic Approach Works Best According to Survey
By Jeremie Bacon (CEO) and Ashley Kramer (Marketing Associate) at Imagineer Technology Group During the second quarter, Imagineer conducted our 2018 Annual Investor Relations Survey*. The survey aims to help the community of IR professionals to share insights and best practices along with their collective vision for where the investor relations function is heading in the future. No […] Read more »
Barnegat Is No 1 Fixed Income Fund, Not Just The Top In Bond Arbitrage
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The Barnegat Fund is managed by Bob Treue’s Barnegat Fund Management Inc, a Fixed-Income, Relative-Value hedge fund manager based in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Barnegat focuses on interest-rate anomalies in the large, liquid markets of North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. It captures these mispricings via government bonds, interest-rate […] Read more »
A Good Hedge Fund CRM Drives Fund Raising
By Alan Underdown, Managing Director for Satuit Technologies EMEA In today’s competitive fund raising environment the majority of hedge funds and alternative asset managers recognise that CRM is a key investment. It supports not just day-to-day investor relations, sales, marketing, and compliance processes but it is also a strategic investment in the firm’s business, […] Read more »
Managing the Downwave – Shrinking Assets at Brevan Howard
By Hedge Fund Insight staff HFI has written about managers on the up and how they have managed to get there. This is part of the “how to” role of “Hedge Fund Insight”. There are many more struggling firms than successful hedge fund firms, and so an all-too-common management duty is to downsize the […] Read more »