March 2016
Note Three Quarters of Investors Demand Increased Levels of Transparency on Private Equity Performance
Nearly two thirds (59 percent) of institutional investors globally are set to increase their allocation to private equity over the next five years, according to new State Street research. In contrast, a further 15 percent of institutional investors said their exposure to (...)
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March 2016
Innovation Lyxor and Koris partner to launch an AIFMD Dynamic Core-Satellite Multimanager Strategy
Lyxor Asset Management (“Lyxor”) and Koris International (“Koris”) announce the launch of a Dynamic Core-Satellite (DCS) alternative multimanager strategy, underpinned by the DCS model devised by Koris...
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March 2016
News AnaCap acquires €2 billion NPL portfolios from GE and RBS
AnaCap Financial Partners (“AnaCap”), the specialist European financial services private equity firm, has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of two portfolios of Italian non-performing loans (NPLs) with a face value of more than €2 (...)
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March 2016
Note Deutsche Bank releases annual Alternative Investment Survey highlighting hedge fund sentiment and allocation trends for 2016
Deutsche Bank released its 14th annual Alternative Investment Survey, one of the industry’s largest and longest standing hedge fund investor surveys...
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February 2016
Innovation Unigestion adds global opportunities long /short strategy with the hiring of an investment team from the London-based hedge fund group Cube Capital
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, today announces that it has hired a fund investment team from the London-based hedge fund group Cube (...)
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February 2016
News Hedge funds’ remarkable resilience in turmoil
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down -0.9% in January. 5 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+2.2%), the Lyxor Global Macro Index (+0.7%), and the Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+0.7%) were the best (...)
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February 2016
Note CTAs Rock the House in January
The performance of CTAs during the recent market meltdown is remarkable. It highlights the fact that the power of diversification of the strategy in a portfolio remains intact. Recent developments provide additional evidence that managed futures often outperform traditional (...)
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January 2016
News CalPERS : Hedge Fund Decision Not About One-Year Performance
CalPERS decided to end its hedge fund program, Absolute Return Strategies (ARS), in September of 2014. The matter was widely covered in the media and drew considerable attention at the time. As CalPERS indicated very clearly at that time, program performance was not a key (...)
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December 2015
Strategy Trading FED vs. ECB benefits macro strategies
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was he Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up+0.7% in November November. 4 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.6%), the Lyxor Global Macro Index (+1.8%), and the (...)
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December 2015
News CTA Launches Fall to Lowest Level Since 2006
Fifty CTAs launched in the first nine months of 2015, and the year looks set for the fewest launches since 2006, when 66 CTA funds launched. As a proportion of all hedge funds launched each year, the fraction represented by CTAs has fallen below 10% for the first time since (...)
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December 2015
Innovation Pictet Asset Management adds Asian market neutral fund to Total Return fund range
Pictet Asset Management has expanded its Total Return fund range with the launch of PTR-Phoenix, an equity market neutral fund investing in Asia.
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November 2015
News CalPERS’ Active Private Equity Funds Generated $24.2 Billion in Net Gains for the Fund; Releases Profit Shared with Investment Partners
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced that active funds in its private equity program have added $24.2 billion in realized net gains to the Fund from 1990 to June 30, 2015, based on data from its newly operational Private Equity (...)
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November 2015
News The wheel turned in favor of directional strategies
The Lyxor he Lyxor he LyxorHedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was Hedge Fund Index was up+1.1% in October October October. 8 out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+4.5%), the Lyxor Special Situations Index (...)
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November 2015
News The GX Private Equity IndexSM (PEI) saw an overall return of 4.2 percent
State Street’s GX Private Equity Index Shows Fund Distributions Continue to Outpace Capital Drawdowns, Driving the Quarterly Return to 4.2% in the Second Quarter of 2015...
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September 2015
Opinion A Dovish Fed is Set to Support CTA and Macro Managers
Markets were on standby mode ahead of the Fed’s meeting last week. Hedge funds were flat and there was little dispersion in returns across the managers (see chart). Event-Driven outperformed as equity volatility edged lower. Meanwhile, Fixed Income strategies underperformed (...)
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