From PwC/AIMA Today’s graphic comes from The Global Hedge Fund Distribution Survey 2015. The report is based on a survey in mid-2015 of 146 AIMA members which manage traditional hedge funds, or liquid alternative funds, or both. The respondents to the survey manage around $550 billion in hedge fund assets, or close to 20% of the […] Read more »
UK Pension Allocations To Hedge Funds Topped Out? Graphic of the Day
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Over the past three years Schroders has been tracking the default defined contribution (DC) investment strategies of the UK’s top 350 listed companies every six months to monitor change in asset allocation. Schroders note that “firms are making steady progress towards more diversified investment strategies, which we believe will help deliver […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Stats of the Day – 408 and $18bn
By Hedge Fund Insight staff S&P Global Market Intelligence Quarterly Hedge Fund Tracker Findings*: Hedge Funds Sell Off Equity Stakes: Hedge funds have sold off significant portions of their total equity holdings, shedding over $18 billion in total equity positions from Q4 2015 to Q1 2016. This is the second consecutive quarterly equity sell […] Read more »
Apple Cartoon
From Investing.com “Don’t worry Tim – I was put in the Naughty Corner a few times myself” Amid Apple’s first fall in sales for 13 years, please find analysis, charts and a comic below that might help any coverage you provide on the tech giant’s earnings miss. “The disappointing earnings got a lot […] Read more »
Graphic of The Day: Axis Capital’s Hedge Fund Allocations
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In 2015 Bermudian insurer Axis Capital started to implement a shift in it’s “other investments” which had driven the variations in investment performance for the firm. The strategic shift was to reduce the exposures to hedge funds and put the capital released into direct lending, real estate and private […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Managers in 2016 Sunday Times Rich List
THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2016 THE RICHEST HEDGE FUND MANAGERS 2016 rank 2015 rank Name Hedge fund Wealth Wealth increase/decrease 1 1= Michael Platt BlueCrest Capital £2.1bn Up £600m 2 4 Sir Michael Hintze CQS £1.28bn Up £50m 3 7 David Harding Winton Capital £1.15bn Up £150m 4 1= Alan Howard Brevan Howard […] Read more »
Howard Marks’ Words in 2016
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Group, is a closely followed as a commentator on investment matters. Here is a small selection of his comments and prognostications from this year. “Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.” “I view alternative investing as like […] Read more »
Graphic of The Day: Dispersion of Sharpe Ratios In Alternative Mutual Funds
From AlphaCore Capital Today’s graphic comes from AlphaCore Capital LLC, a registered Investment Advisor from La Jolla California, and has been put together by Jonathan Belanger, CFA, the Director of Research. It was intended to show that using average returns is not an appropriate approach to working with alternative investment strategies. Dispersion of Sharpe Ratios […] Read more »
The Impact of Digital on Logistics – Graphic of the Day
The top trends for 2016 in the logistics industry from 2Flow source: www.2flow.ie/pick-and-pack.html Read more »
Hedge Fund Groups Still Largely Ignoring Social Media Opportunities
From Peppercomm Hedge funds are becoming a hot topic on social media, though hedge funds themselves still sit on the sidelines. In a just-released survey of trends in hedge fund communications, communications and marketing firm Peppercomm found conversations about hedge funds happening in 2015 at never-before seen levels on social media. The media analysed were […] Read more »