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 »
Challenges YTD For Active Managers Says GAM
From Global Asset Management March concluded a volatile quarter across financial markets, as modest headline moves in many cases belied significant intra-quarter risk reversals and choppiness. The MSCI World index closed down 0.2% for the quarter against a very steep sell-off through 11 February, followed by a reversal and strong rally into the end […] Read more »
Asset Flows in 2016 – Multi-Strategy and Macro/CTAs Seen As Beneficiaries
By Peter Laurelli, Head of Research at eVestment Executive Summary of eVestment’s 2016 Hedge Fund Industry Outlook The Outlook highlights data-driven predictions of hedge fund trends for the upcoming year. The hedge fund industry continues to face dominant short-term and long-term influences. There is consistent evidence to suggest returns influence fund specific flows in […] Read more »
GAM’s Anthony Lawler – Hedge Fund Performance in 2016
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 »
Crowding in Event Driven of Concern to Investors According to GAM
From Global Asset Management Global themes regained strength in May: global macro and event driven managers led the hedge fund pack May proved a choppy month across asset classes with investor attention focused on issues such as US growth concerns and the Greek solvency question. The US Dollar index was up 2.4%, US […] Read more »
2015 Hedge Fund Industry Outlook from eVestment – Flow Forecasts
From eVestment LLC eVestment’s 2015 Hedge Fund Industry Outlook predictions of hedge fund trends for the upcoming year include: Barring a large and unexpected global or financial event, hedge funds are positioned for another year of solid growth as institutional investors seek to gain alternative exposures to traditional equity and fixed income markets. […] Read more »
Analysis of Equity Hedge Sub-Strategies
By Barclays Capital Solutions Group The Equity Hedge Fund segment is obviously fairly broad and includes a set of disparate strategies. We have taken a close look at these various sub-strategies, which each have their own unique characteristics and appeal to investors. We describe these sub-strategies in this article and attempt to show their […] Read more »
Chart of the Day: Cycles of Equity Hedge v Non-Equity Hedge Flows
CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR IT TO OPEN IN FULL IMAGE SIZE From “Taking Stock: Recent Developments in the Equity Hedge Fund Landscape” by Barclays Prime Services, Capital Solutions (Oct 2014) Read more »
Graphic Of the Day – Hedge Fund Outlook From Northern Trust
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Hedge Fund Managers Increase Gross Investment Levels According To GAM
From Global Asset Management Asset prices rallied in June across equities, bonds, credit and most commodities. Hedge funds performed positively with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index up 0.9% for the month and each of the four main hedge fund strategies also posting gains, as measured by the respective HFRX strategy indices in US dollar […] Read more »