By Hedge Fund Insight staff The Board of Listed fund of hedge funds Altin AG is under pressure to change the composition of the Board and to pay out a special dividend from retained earnings. The existing Board has done a good job post Credit Crunch, as these extracts from the EGM Statement show: […] Read more »
Is This What Hedge Fund Replication Is Supposed to Look Like?
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight When I received the press release headed “IndexIQ Announces December 2015 Performance of Its IQ Hedge Family of Investable Benchmark Hedge Fund Replication Indexes” I thought I would have a look at the (relative) returns. According IQ “the IQ Hedge™ Indexes comprise the first family of […] 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 »
Hedge Funds: Mutually Inclusive, says Neuberger Berman
By Fred Ingham, head of international hedge fund investments, Neuberger Berman A quiet revolution is happening in hedge funds. Investors continue to allocate to the asset class, but the way they are allocating is changing, while its investor base is growing broader and becoming more inclusive. With both bond and equity markets facing major […] Read more »
Event Driven Down for Year as Hedge Funds Lose for Third Month
From Eurekahedge Pte of Singapore Hedge funds posted their third consecutive month of losses with the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index down 1.75%1in August while the MSCI World Index2lost 6.66% during the month as fears over China’s economic outlook intensified with global equity markets seeing broad based declines. Despite the setback, hedge funds have outperformed […] Read more »
Fee Pressures Are a Hot Button
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Fee pressures are ubiquitous in the hedge fund industry. Pre-Credit Crisis there were fee pressures, but some large and very large managers with capacity-constrained funds and closed to all new capital could not be bullied or argued into fee concessions. In the aftermath of the Credit […] Read more »
Update 2 of “How Many Hedge Funds in a Fund of Funds”
By Hedge Fund Insight staff On of the best and most widely read articles on this website is the one by Cliffwater titled “How Many Hedge Funds? Only 15-20 For The Highly Skilled” – see the original article. The article is going to be referenced when new data becomes available that gives real world […] Read more »
Graphics of the Day – State of New Jersey Pension Fund’s Hedge Funds
By Hedge Fund Insight staff There is good visibility of hedge fund exposure and returns for state pension plans. Most investment committee papers are available, and often it is possible to read the hedge fund managers comments and presentations. In the first graphic are two tables extracted from the monthly Investment Reports a year […] Read more »
Update 1 of “How Many Hedge Funds in a Fund of Funds”
By Hedge Fund Insight staff On of the best and most widely read articles on this website is the one by Cliffwater titled “How Many Hedge Funds? Only 15-20 For The Highly Skilled” – see the original article. The article is going to be referenced when new data becomes available that gives real world […] Read more »
Data Visualization Is An Edge At Rock Creek Group
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The Rock Creek Group is a leading global investment and advisory firm with approximately $10 billion in invested and committed assets under management. Members of the Rock Creek team have been investing globally in hedge funds and emerging markets since the early 1990s. In previous careers at the World […] Read more »