By Hedge Fund Insight staff Hedge Fund Insight has commented this year on Emerging Market (EM) hedge fund returns and capital flows in the context of the six month rule (see Emerging Market Hedge Fund Demand – The Six Month Rule in Action). The monthly report from eVestment on hedge fund industry capital flows remarked […] Read more »
Emerging Market Hedge Fund Demand – The Six Month Rule in Action
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight The “2017 Credit Suisse Global Survey of Hedge Fund Investor Appetite and Activity” contains the latest example of the six-month rule in action. Regular readers will know the rule and it’s workings (given below). If you haven’t heard of the rule and you have to do some marketing […] Read more »
Disappearing World – EM Mandates in the Hedge Fund Industry
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The composition of the hedge fund industry is always changing at the margin through two causes – subscriptions and redemptions and investment performance. Seeing the occasional snapshot, a moment in time, does not reflect the trends, the change. Recent data from Eurekahedge showed a trend that has been little reported […] Read more »
Graphic of the Day – Biggest Shifts of Investor Demand for Hedge Funds
From the 6th Annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey from Credit Suisse Top Fifteen Biggest Swings In Net Investor Demand (ranked by absolute year-on-year change) Read more »
Gold, the Yen, Upside in Equities and Petroleum Week With Archbridge Capital
In this article Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight, has a Q&A session with global macro manager Hakan Kocayusufpasaoglu, CIO of Archbridge Capital. Hedge Fund Insight: You had a good year in 2013, with your macro fund up over 19%. In which asset classes did you make the most money, and how much […] Read more »
What Has Been Troubling Emerging Markets? Schroders’ Allan Conway Comments
By Allan Conway, Head of Emerging Market Equities at Schroders Why have emerging markets underperformed? Why have GEMs underperformed? It is probably fair to say that many investors accept that the long-term structural case for emerging markets remains intact. Superior economic growth driven by favourable demographic trends and strong balance sheets means the centre of […] Read more »
Return of Your Capital over Return on Your Capital
By Lee Robinson, Altana Wealth Limited It is difficult to know where to start. 2013 is beginning to look like a pivotal year for so many regions globally. The bear is savaging each market in turn. First it was commodities then emerging market currencies followed by everything else in emerging markets. China is back to […] Read more »
Underperformance of Emerging Markets Assets to Continue
By Maarten-Jan Bakkum, Senior Emerging Markets Strategist at ING Investment Management Emerging markets have had a rough time recently. Over the past two and a half years, their economic performance has stayed behind that of developed markets. The debt crisis has led to meaningful change in the US and Europe. In the US, the banking […] Read more »
FRM’s Current Preferred Hedge Fund Strategies
In its latest outlook, FRM, Man Group’s $19.5 billion fund of hedge funds and managed accounts business, identifies three potential sources of return for hedge funds. The preferences that FRM expresses are based on a specific market outlook. Europe’s largest independent FoF has an outlook on markets that remains broadly unchanged: FRM thinks that the […] Read more »