Incisive Views from Professionals
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority produces regular statistics on the numbers of active financial businesses in its jurisdiction. Offshore banking and reinsurance are significant to the Cayman Islands, but the Cayman Islands are also home to more offshore hedge funds (Cayman Island Mutual Funds) than any […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management July was a strong month for equities with both the MSCI World index and the S&P 500 index up over 5% for the month in US dollar terms. Investment grade and high yield credit in the US and Europe rallied with notably large investor flows into US high yield. The […] Read more »
From The Towers Watson Global Alternatives Survey 2013* The key trends for hedge funds identified in the survey relate to both single manager hedge funds and funds of hedge funds (FoHFs). The FoHF industry continues to adjust to the new normal, with FoHFs increasingly working with investors in some form of customised or bespoke manner. […] Read more »
By Manuel Arrive, Senior Director Fitch Ratings In a review of the rating covering Sciens’s Fund of Hedge fund (FoHF) and Managed Account Platform (MAP), Sciens Fund of Funds Management Holdings Ltd. has been rated as having High Standards and with a stable outlook by Fitch Ratings. Sciens Capital Management LLC (SCM) began alternative asset […] Read more »
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight, As for any period since the end of 2009, so far this year the hedge fund industry mostly has been about what has happen in North America. That is where the managers who are attracting most assets are based, and that is where the flows coming into […] Read more »
By Maarten-Jan Bakkum, Senior Emerging Markets Strategist at ING Investment Management Emerging markets have had a rough time recently. Over the past two and a half years, their economic performance has stayed behind that of developed markets. The debt crisis has led to meaningful change in the US and Europe. In the US, the banking […] Read more »
From Global Asset Management May was a positive month overall for US and European equities, but also a month of sustained weakness across major bond and credit markets. Equity markets had a strong start, but then reversed in the second half of the month. The most prominent example of this was the Japanese Nikkei […] Read more »
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By Simon Kerr, Hedge Fund Insight From immaturity around 1997 through the mid 2000’s the European hedge fund industry grew faster than that of the country which invented the concept, the United States of America. For the period since the Credit Crunch the European industry has been a lot less vigorous than the American scene, […] Read more »
By Simon Kerr, Hedge Fund Insight The Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service® (Wilshire TUCS) tracks the performance and allocation of institutional assets in the United States of America and includes nearly 1,570 plans representing in excess of $2.75 trillion in assets. The full universe includes public pension plans, Taft-Hartley plans, master trusts and corporate […] Read more »