By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of “Wall Street Back To Basics” With activist investors more active than ever, more and more attention is being paid by investors to the investments they make. Publicity often reduces hedge funds maneuverability and ability to trade positions quickly. Fund managers have to work with this restriction […] Read more »
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 »
Strategy Preferences of Japanese Investors In Hedge Funds
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Japanese institutional investors have longer experience investing in hedge funds than institutions in other regions of the world. In addition absolute return strategies have had significant allocations from Japanese investors for a long period – the Japanese economy has suffered from low interest rates and bond yields for a […] Read more »
Seven Things To Do To Improve Hedge Fund Marketing Material
By Chris Nutt, founding partner of Investor Communications Sometimes it can be difficult to express your thoughts clearly in writing, particularly if you are pressed for time. Yet precise written communications are essential for all hedge fund managers seeking to build a professional reputation and raise capital. When your presentations, factsheets, performance updates […] Read more »
Event Driven in May
By Hedge Fund Insight staff* Event Driven managers had a negative month in May despite the high level of deal activity and the positive contribution from special situations trading. A number of the larger deal spreads either broke (Astra-Zeneca/Pfizer was not an official deal break, but it had the same effect) or widened. This was […] Read more »
GAM See Event-Driven Managers As Idea-Rich & Staying Fully Invested
From Global Asset Management Hedge funds positive in May as equities, credit and bonds rally May proved to be a supportive month across most asset classes, with global equities posting broadly positive returns while bond yields tightened and credit rallied. Against this backdrop, hedge funds had a positive month with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund […] Read more »
’40 Act Hedge Funds On The Rise
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Liquid alternatives have seen strong industry growth, outpacing traditional hedge funds, according to “Going Mainstream: Developments and Opportunities for Hedge Fund Managers in the ’40 Act Space,” an April 2014 study by Barclays Prime Services. The study found that in 2013, liquid alts assets grew by 43%, while hedge […] Read more »
Positive Returns And Less Redemptions Stabilize AUM For Funds Of Hedge Funds
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The peak of the fund of hedge funds sector was in 2008 (by AUM and numbers of funds) and in aggregate the sector has shrunk ever since (by those two measures). The pace of change has varied but the direction hasn’t. In the first half of last […] Read more »
Cliffwater Hedge Fund Commentary – April 2014
By Daniel Stern, Senior Managing Director at Cliffwater LLC April was a moderately positive month for most hedge fund strategies and all strategies outside of Global Macro remain in the black for the year. In April, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index lost 0.2% and the HFRI Fund of Funds Composite Index detracted 1.1%. […] Read more »