From Global Asset Management As year-end approaches, we look ahead to the outlook for active trading and hedge funds in 2016. The choppy waters of 2015 has proved challenging for active managers. Both equities and global bonds are down this year to date as measured by the MSCI World index and the Barclays Global […] Read more »
Good Opportunities in European Private Debt according to NEPC
By Allan Martin, Partner NEPC, LLC Historically, there is a high correlation between the Yield-to-Maturity (YTM) of the Barclays Aggregate Index and the benchmark’s 6-year forward return. The current 12/14 Barcap Aggregate 6 yr YTM is 2.3%. With regular corporate bonds with such a low yield, American pension plans with target returns of 7 […] Read more »
Dull YTD Returns for Most Hedge Fund Strategies – Distressed Funds Lag
From Eurekahedge Hedge funds continued their recovery in Q4 with the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 0.88%1 in November while the MSCI World Index2 grew by 0.38% during the month. On a year-to-date basis, hedge funds are up 2.58% while underlying markets as represented by the MSCI World have gained 1.78%. November was dominated […] Read more »
Default Rates Rising in US Leveraged Loans & High Yield
From Fitch Ratings, with additional content from Hedge Fund Insight staff A total of $2 billion of loan defaults in November led by Millennium Health LLC pushes the trailing 12-month (TTM) default rate to 1.7% from 1.5% at the end of October, according to Fitch Ratings. Millennium’s $1.8 billion Chapter 11 filing on Nov. […] Read more »
Talent, PB Fees, and Middle Office Outsourcing Highlighted in E&Y HF Survey
By Hedge Fund Insight staff One of the public services Hedge Fund Insight provides is mastication: HFI will chew over a major piece of work to give you the highlights. Each year Ernst & Young publish a Global Hedge Fund & Investor Survey*. As usual there were some interesting and surprising results in the […] Read more »
Deutsche AWM Sticks to Strategy Biases – Positive on Equity M-N
By Hedge Fund Insight staff At the beginning of the last quarter Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management’s Hedge Fund Advisory Team advised an overweight in equity market-neutral and an underweight in distressed investing strategies. Both have been good calls in the short period since. Here we catch up with Tim Gascoigne, Head of Liquid Alternatives – […] Read more »
Hedge Funds and other Non-Bank Lenders Woo Small and Mid-Sized Companies
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Hedge fund firms and other alternative asset managers are playing an increasingly important role in financing the economy, according to a paper published by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) this year. The paper says that private debt funds such as hedge funds now manage around $440 billion in […] Read more »
10 Hedge Funds Family Offices Like
By David Bain of Family Capital During the financial crisis hedge funds didn’t exactly endear themselves to many family offices, with their opaque redemption structures and underperformance during much of the crisis. But, with some trepidation, family offices have since ventured back into them. Vidak Radonjic, CEO of the New York-based Beryl Consulting Group, […] Read more »
Event Driven Leads Hedge Funds Down in September Notes FRM
From Financial Risk Management Limited (FRM), part of Man Group The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index fell -2.54% to 29 September, pushing the index further into negative territory at -3.52% for the year-to-date 2015. After a fall of -0.13% recorded in the first half of the month (16 September), hedge funds’ negative performance accelerated […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Groups With Most Capital from Institutions
Ranked by percentage of discretionary assets managed in (single manager) hedge funds worldwide for institutions as of June 30, 2015. Rank Manager % of worldwide assets institutional % of U.S. assets institutional 1 Black River Asset Mgmt. 100.0% 69.0% 2 Bridgewater Associates 100.0% 52.7% 3 Salient Partners 100.0% 100.0% 4 Nephila Capital 98.7% 18.7% […] Read more »