By Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management’s Hedge Fund Advisory team Our 12 month hedge fund performance forecasts are derived from our market outlook to the end of 2015, which in turn is anchored by the forecasts from the Deutsche AWM CIO Office. They are based on the following expectations: We expect global economic […] 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 »
K2’s 2015 Outlook – Bias To Lower-Beta Sector Specialists In Equity Hedge
David C. Saunders, Founding Managing Director, & Robert Christian, Head of Research, K2 Advisors We think earnings growth trends should provide support for long/short equity strategies in 2015, particularly in terms of specialty managers in areas such as health care, technology and activism. Meanwhile, opportunities in relative value have continued to evolve due in […] Read more »
Visium On M&A – Treasury Dept Regs, Mega-Mergers, PE And M&A Outlook
A Q&A With Frank Gallagher and Peter Drippé, Portfolio Managers at Visium Funds Q1: The Treasury Department recently tightened tax rules to deter U.S. companies from moving their corporate headquarters to lower-tax countries. How will these new regulations impact the current level of mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity? The new Treasury regulations will make […] Read more »
Global Macro and CTAs Outperform Again In November
From Global Asset Management Global equity markets continued on their upward trend from mid-October, finishing November up 2.1%, as measured by the MSCI World index in US dollars. US Treasuries and core European bonds also rallied. Against this backdrop, coupled with a strong US dollar and downward trending oil prices, hedge funds performed positively. […] Read more »
Multi-Strategy Under The Gun As European Hedge Funds Lag
From Hedge Fund Insight staff The latest flow data from Eurekahedge for the hedge fund industry show net outflows from Europe-focused hedge funds. Only two investment strategies could possibly accommodate the scale of monthly redemptions from European funds – fixed income and multi-strategy (Table 1/Figure 2). So it is highly likely that the biggest outflows […] Read more »
Macro Returns Positive In October As Event Driven Turns Negative For the Year
From Global Asset Management Global markets were volatile in October with equities, credit and bond yields broadly selling-off in the first half of the month before reversing course and rallying into month-end. This volatility and choppiness proved challenging for many investors, including hedge funds, with most cutting their risk by mid-month and therefore not […] Read more »
SkyBridge Capital De-Risk Anticipating A Meaningful Dislocation In Markets
In this webcast transcript Troy Gayeski, Senior Portfolio Manager, and Ray Nolte, Chief Investment Officer of SkyBridge Capital discuss how the shifts of market and economic background have driven the decision making on the flagship SkyBridge Multi-Advisor Hedge Fund Portfolios (Series G). 1. Q2 Portfolio Review: How much did the portfolio shift? Troy Gayeski: […] Read more »
Event Driven Funds Give Back in October
Simplify Mid-Month Pulse 780 Funds Reporting as of October 17 2014 Strategy Return Macro – Discretionary Down (2.41%) Macro -Systematic Up 3.68% Macro – Commodity Down (1.15%) Emerging Markets Down (2.28%) Fixed Income – Rel Val Down (3.29%) Asia Long-Short (ex-China) Down (6.05%) Europe Long-Short Down (3.36) China Long-Short Down (1.9) Event Driven – Special […] Read more »
Equity Strategies Dominate YTD Inflows – CTAs and Macro See Outflows
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