By Hedge Fund Insight staff Pre-Credit Crunch the largest Asian territories in the hedge fund industry (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan) hosted 43.6% of Asian hedge funds. This year those same Big Four has a combined share of 50.8% by number of funds. The corollary is that Western financial centres lost share over the last […] Read more »
WorldQuant Continues Expansion in 2017
from HFObserver* Currently making the most waves in terms of recruitment in the hedge fund industry is Old Greenwich, CT–headquartered global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, founded by Millennium alumnus and former game developer Igor Tulchinsky. In the first half of 2017 the firm made the top 10 for net recruitment amongst hedge fund management […] Read more »
New Book: “Successfully Launching A Hedge Fund in Europe”
Now available on Amazon*, the new title published by Hedge Fund Insight: “Successfully Launching A Hedge Fund in Europe”. Leading service providers share the do’s and dont’s of getting into the hedge fund industry, and seasoned executives share their experiences of setting up funds and meeting new managers. Chapter 1. The Launch Environment (written by Simon Kerr of […] Read more »
Ramp Up Your CRM’s Effectiveness With These 10 Steps
By Alan Underdown, Managing Director – Europe, Satuit Technologies OVERVIEW: In today’s intense capital raising landscape the majority of hedge funds and alternative asset managers now recognise that CRM is a key investment. It supports not just day-to-day investor relations, sales, marketing, relationship management and compliance processes but it is also a strategic investment […] Read more »
Emerging Market Hedge Fund Demand – The Six Month Rule in Action
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The “2017 Credit Suisse Global Survey of Hedge Fund Investor Appetite and Activity” contains the latest example of the six-month rule in action. Regular readers will know the rule and it’s workings (given below). If you haven’t heard of the rule and you have to do some marketing […] Read more »
Fund Administration Biz Continues to Concentrate – NT Acquires UBS Fund Admin Units
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The trend for increasing concentration in the administration of funds has been going on nearly as long as the trend for concentration in the management of hedge fund assets. The latest example is given in this press release: UBS Group AG and Northern Trust Corporation announce that UBS […] Read more »
KKR Addresses Its Mis-Step In Acquiring Prisma Through PAAMCO Deal
By Hedge Fund Insight staff It was announced today that PAAMCO and KKR Prisma are to form a Strategic Partnership to create a new liquid alternatives investment firm. As PAAMCO has been fiercely independent and Prisma was acquired by Private Equity giant KKR in 2012 to give growth to its’ liquid alternatives business this has […] Read more »
Coaches Can Take Portfolio Managers & Traders To The Next Level
By Rajan Chopra, CEO of Chopra Coaching LLC Ask traders if they would like coaching to improve performance and one might either get a quizzical look or “Coaching? What’s coaching going to teach me that I don’t already know?” It’s understandable that many are skeptical about the value of coaching and resistant to it […] Read more »
Consultant Verus Negative on Outlook for Event Driven Hedge Funds
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In a recent report Verus, the investment consultant created out of the combination of Wurts and Strategic Investment Solutions, was constructive on the outlook for three out of five hedge fund strategies. The consultant gave forward-looking views across the broad hedge fund investment strategies as shown in the table below. […] Read more »
Wishing Our Readers A Peaceful Christmas
From All at Hedge Fund Insight Wishing Our Readers A Peaceful Christmas Read more »