Incisive Views from Professionals
By Google’s Bard The following article has not been edited by Hedge Fund Insight – a Q&A with Bard on Hedge Funds and Family Offices. Do Family Offices invest in hedge funds? Yes, family offices invest in hedge funds. Family offices are private investment firms that manage the wealth of wealthy families. They may invest […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Introduction – Part One This article is divided into three parts. The first part is the genesis of the article – the new supply of funds engaging in the strategy of merger arbitrage, including one from Paulson & Co. The second part is John Paulson’s writing on the strategy […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff The portfolio of ALTIN AG , the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, is well diversified as it contains 40 hedge funds. That degree of diversification is unnecessary from the academic perspective, but does minimise blow-up risk. There are, however, a number of […] Read more »
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By Hedge Fund Insight staff Sandell Asset Management Corp. recently sponsored the launch of Sandell Re, a Bermuda based reinsurance company that can invest in the firm’s global event driven investment strategy, which will be managed in a separately managed account with an investment objective substantially similar to Sandell Asset Management’s main hedge funds. […] Read more »
By Brian Schneider and Matthew Noll of Fitch Ratings The expansion of alternative capital sources within the reinsurance market is likely to contribute to lower returns on equity across the reinsurance sector and sustain the market’s M&A wave, particularly among Bermudan firms, says Fitch Ratings. Alternative sources of capital push the sector’s capitalization levels […] Read more »
From King Street Capital manages two of the largest distressed debt funds – the very largest King Street Capital Ltd ($12.5bn AUM) , and King Street Europe ($1.2bn). If one manager from this largest manager list has to be selected on the grounds of performance it would be Hildene Capital Management. Both distressed funds […] Read more »
By Hedge Fund Insight staff There is no doubt that the role of gold for hedge fund managers can be seen in the context of monetary policy, and specifically US monetary policy. Indeed this site has carried a number of gold-related articles in which the phrase “fiat money” has featured strongly. Although Eric Sprott could […] Read more »
Last week the “Financial Times ” ran a story that the UK tax authorities (HM Revenue & Customs) were looking to tackle the disguising of employment relationships through limited liability partnership structures and the manipulation of profit and loss allocations to achieve tax advantages. The Table Below Shows 15 of the largest 25 hedge fund […] Read more »