Incisive Views from Professionals
By Hedge Fund Insight staff It has been a long road back, but Asian hedge funds have at last regained their peak assets – last seen pre-Credit Crunch in 2008. Total assets in Asian hedge funds (excluding Japan) were at $159.8bn at the end of May 2015. The asset growth since the start of […] Read more »
From Hedge Fund Insight/ Lyxor Asset Management The data is sourced from the Lyxor Managed Account Platform which has nearly $8bn of assets invested via around 80 managers. Read more »
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 »
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Content-driven marketing is a meme in professional marketing circles. Some marketers in finance have got it (see Baldwin Berges’ BD Insider) but in hedge fund land no-so-much. It seems to be acceptable for hedge fund managers to try to retain clients through content-driven marketing (for example […] Read more »
By Chris DeNigris, Global Marketing Manager, Backstop Solutions Group Determine If Your Fund Has the Right Infrastructure in Place to Achieve Operational Efficiency Twenty-seven percent of managers have plans for a new launch this year, according to Preqin’s 2015 Global Hedge Fund Report. Whether those managers are launching a new fund or a […] Read more »
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 »
By Steve Nadel (lead author), Partner Seward & Kissel Investment Management Group Introduction & Key Findings Driven by our ongoing commitment to understanding the dynamics of the hedge fund marketplace, each year Seward & Kissel conducts The Seward & Kissel New Hedge Fund Study of newly-formed hedge funds sponsored by new U.S.-based managers entering […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff From January 2013 to July 2014 equity hedge funds was the only strategy group to receive net inflows each month, according to the data tracked by Eurekahedge. In that period the flows into fixed income hedge funds were very nearly as consistently positive, but the scale of net subscriptions was […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Event Driven Fund Universe By Investment Strategy Event Driven Investor Universe Asset Flows To Event Driven source:Eurekahedge Event Driven Launches By Sub-Strategy and Year Returns From Event Driven Funds At The Index Level source: Barclayhedge *Funds over $100m in assets *NOTE: The top performing […] Read more »
From Merrill Datasite/MergerMarket Related article: Visium On M&A – Treasury Dept Regs, Mega-Mergers, PE And M&A Outlook (Dec 2014) Read more »