By Citi Investor Services This article gives the key findings from Part 2 of “The 2014 Citi Investor Services 5th Annual Industry Evolution Report”. The factors driving change in the hedge fund industry are shifting. For the five years since the Global Financial Crisis, major industry evolution occurred primarily in response to a […] Read more »
CalPERS Resizes Hedge Fund Program On The Back Of Power Shift
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight CalPERs, the largest defined benefit plan in the United States, has been a thought leader in the use of hedge funds for investing institutions, but no more. Changes to the power structure within the Retirement System have led to a reversal of the attitude towards investing […] Read more »
Why Data Visualisation Matters In Financial Software
By thecitysecret Ltd Introduction Over the past 20 years trading systems have not changed radically in terms of appearance, although the amount of available data has greatly increased. There are countless examples of overly-complex, multi-tabbed interfaces each with an array of grids, sub grids, drop-downs, tick boxes and confusing graphs. These are normally accompanied […] Read more »
Why Have Institutions Stuck With Hedge Funds? Graphic Of The Day
From Preqin Hedge Fund Portfolio Performance Relative to Expectations of Institutional Investors, 2008 – 2013 Read more »
GFIA’s 7 Commandments In The World Of Investment
By GFIA Team, led by Peter Douglas The monthly “thinkpiece” as we call it in GFIA, is usually a qualitative commentary on what we’re seeing at the moment in our world. This month, however, we’re going to go over some of our learnings from 28 years’ exposure to the world of professional investing (and including […] Read more »
Asian Hedge Fund Trends Include Consolidation Pressure
By GFIA of Singapore Historical overview GFIA began coverage of the Asian hedge funds industry in September 1998. At that time the industry was tiny and all participants mostly knew each other. The Asian crisis was still unfolding, and the industry was a collection of maverick specialists. It was another five years before the industry […] Read more »
Investing Institutions and the Persistent UCITS Hedge Funds Performance Gap
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight It was noted in Hedge Fund Insight in May this year that most of the capital raised by European hedge funds in 2013 had gone into UCITS versions of the funds rather than the offshore versions of those hedge funds. At the time the comment was […] Read more »
Asian Hedge Fund Flows Follow The Six Month Pattern
By Hedge Fund Insight staff In line with the thrust of the previous article on Hedge Fund Insight, August flows to Asian and European hedge funds were positive when flows to North and South American funds were slightly negative, according to Eurekahedge data. As far as the Asian flows were concerned this was the sixth […] Read more »
The Biggest Asian Investors in Hedge Funds
The Biggest Asian Investors in Hedge Funds source: Preqin Hedge Fund Investor Profiles Read more »
Fund of Hedge Fund Takeovers – Bursting a Dam or Turning a Tap?
By Simon Kerr, Principal, Enhance Consulting and Publisher of “Hedge Fund Insight” For seven or eight years we have been told that a wave of M&A was about to roll over the fund of hedge funds sector. There have been different reasons over that period, they all pointed towards consolidation, but somehow it has […] Read more »