September 2016
News Value Creation – CEPRES Proves Private Equity Gets It Right
CEPRES released a unique analysis that demonstrates Private Equity is enhancing value in operating companies. By analyzing thousands of PE-backed Operating Companies, CEPRES found that since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) there has been a steady and significant (...)
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September 2016
News Dollar upswing lifts Global Macro managers
Market movements related to the new Fed guidance had a differentiated impact on hedge fund strategies. CTAs underperformed last week as a result of their long fixed income and short USD positions. Meanwhile, Global Macro managers (...)
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September 2016
News Unigestion’s fourth Secondaries Opportunities Fund sees successful first close
USO IV seeks transactions at the smaller end of the secondary market, in which high-quality assets can be acquired at attractive valuations. It focuses on small and middle-market funds, fund restructurings, secondary direct portfolios and structured transactions. It has a (...)
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August 2016
News September Market Catalysts in Store for Hedge Funds
This week was uneventful for most hedge fund strategies amid low trading volumes, few market catalysts and limited changes in risk assets’ prices. The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was flat. Merger Arbitrage and Global Macro funds were the two (...)
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August 2016
News Sunny Summer for Hedge Funds
The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was up a healthy +0.7% since the beginning of August, with progress in most strategies, supported by the positive performance of risky assets. The Bank of England’s activism and the Brexit timeline getting pushed back contributed toward easing (...)
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July 2016
News A Taste of Summer for Hedge Funds
The winning streak for hedge funds continued last week with all strategies, besides CTAs, benefitting from the stabilization of market conditions. The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.5%, bringing the month to date performance to a solid (...)
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July 2016
Strategy Alternative risk premia weathering Brexit storm well
Pierre-Yves Moix, co-manager of the Alternative Risk Premia strategy at GAM, comments on how the growing alternative risk premia industry has delivered strong performance in the uncertain Brexit environment – proving once again its strong diversification and market neutral (...)
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July 2016
Innovation Unigestion launches long / short strategy following success of first factor fund
Unigestion, the boutique asset manager with scale that focuses on guiding its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, today announces that the second of the two factor funds created in collaboration with its client Railpen, announced in January this year, has now (...)
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July 2016
Strategy A Rising Tide Lifts Most Boats
The broad-based market upswing in the first half of July has benefitted risk assets globally. That follows the release of better than expected economic data in the US and China, suggesting that fears over the strength of the global recovery have been (...)
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July 2016
Note Investors go alternative
The research - which includes data on a diverse range of institutional investor types - shows that pension fund assets represent a third (34%) of the top 100 alternative managers’ assets, followed by wealth managers (19%), insurance companies (10%), sovereign wealth funds (...)
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July 2016
Note Investors and Fund Managers Gauge Brexit Impact
Many fund managers expect performance and investment decisions to be affected, while institutional investors expect to commit less to the UK
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June 2016
Innovation CNP Assurances introduces private equity
CNP Assurances ranks among the top 50 global private equity institutional investors. Starting in September 2016, the Group’s high net worth customers will be able to benefit from the longterm performance potential of private equity class and ensure the liquidity of their (...)
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June 2016
News State Street’s GX Private Equity Index Shows Modest Rebound After Q3 2015 Drop
State Street Corporation announced the results of its GX Private Equity IndexSM, a benchmark for comparative analysis of private equity performance, which includes a comprehensive data set dating back to 1980. In the fourth quarter of 2015, the index saw an overall return of (...)
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June 2016
News AnaCap hits hard cap on third Credit fund with €595 million
AnaCap Credit Opportunities III was increased from an initial capacity of €550 million to cater for additional demand, although remained oversubscribed
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May 2016
Note ‘$1bn Club’ Managers Hold 88% of all Hedge Fund Capital
The 668 firms with at least $1bn in assets under management (AUM) now control $2.75tn out of the total $3.13tn held by the hedge fund industry
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