People Moves Pierre-Henri Flamand leaves Goldman Sachs to start his own hedge fund!
Pierre-Henri Flamand, who had been working for 15 years at Goldman Sachs, was appointed, in 2008, head of trading of the most prolific desk ...
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Strategy Social network: a new trading tool
The use of social networks in finance is no longer limited to communication, marketting or recruitment. Considered as relevant information databases, social networks are now included in news trading systems...
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Innovation Skandia Investment Group (SIG) launches UCITS managed futures fund
SIG has chosen to partner with London based Aspect Capital and is seeking the sort of returns generated by Aspect’s Diversified Programme – the Company’s flagship investment strategy which caters primarily to large sophisticated institutional investors and has a 12 year plus (...)
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Innovation CI Institutional Asset Management launches CI Global Private Real Estate Fund for Canadian institutional and high net worth investors
CI Institutional Asset Management, a division of CI Investments Inc. ("CI"), today announced the launch of a global real estate fund in association with CBRE Global Investment Partners, a division of one of the world’s pre-eminent real estate services and investment (...)
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Strategy Value, Momentum and the Outlook for Market Neutral L/S
Momentum stocks experienced a correction since Pfizer announced their Covid-19 vaccine results early November. Performance has nonetheless stabilized over the course of March, as the rebound in Value stocks has been persistent and started to be shown in the Momentum risk (...)
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Opinion Are L/S Equity managers concerned by the covid resurgence?
Managers in the U.S. and Europe are continuing to reduce both their net and gross exposures, now converging near their long-term lows. They are selectively selling or shorting stocks that are the most exposed to tighter restrictions, preferring value stocks instead (to (...)
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News CalPERS Commits $75 Million to Emerging Manager Program Firm Siris Partners
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced that it has committed $75 million to private equity firm Siris Partners. This is the first direct commitment to Siris, who has previously received commitments from CalPERS through the System’s (...)
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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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News Long Short Credit resilience defies investors’concerns
Since early December, Merger Arbitrage and L/S Equity Market Neutral has outperformed, while L/S Equity remains under pressure. Relative Value Arbitrage was resilient. Based on a peer group of 28 onshore L/S Credit strategies, the median performance was -0.3% month-to-date (...)
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News Hedge funds are massively « short »
According to Bank of America Corp., the volume of bearish positions on the S&P 500 futures has boomed in recent weeks and reached levels seen before the 2008 crisis...
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News Hedge Funds Show Resilience Ahead of Election Day
Risk aversion rose over the recent days as Election Day approaches in the U.S. and the gap between Clinton and Trump in the polls has narrowed. During the period under review, both equities and bonds delivered negative returns, while credit spreads widened and energy (...)
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News Alternative UCITS Get the Flows in Europe!
There has been much discussion over the recent weeks on the outflows suffered by the hedge fund industry. Several data providers estimated the decline in global hedge fund capital in the first quarter of 2016 at about USD (...)
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Strategy Absolute Return Fund Performance Improves but is Dependent on Volatility
Fitch Ratings says in a new report that absolute return funds’ performance has improved with over 70% of funds posting positive performance in 2012 and 2013, supported by more favourable market conditions. Returns have showed low volatility but have not always been (...)
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News CTAs Rally as the Greenback Loses Luster
In our previous report we commented on the respective stance of Macro and CTA managers on the US currency and signaled we were more comfortable with the bearish USD stance of CTAs. We maintain that view, despite the latest comments from Boston Fed President (...)
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News Swiss Re’s sigma on natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2012 reports USD 77 billion in insured losses and economic losses of USD 186 billion
Swiss Re’s latest sigma study reveals that natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2012 caused economic losses of USD 186 billion with approximately 14 000 lives lost.
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