Hedge funds attract $6.39bn of new capital to start 2021... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Hedge funds attracted USD6.39 billion of new capital last month as investors piled into a wide variety of strategy types, particularly macro and managed futures, said eVestment.
According to the just-released eVestment January 2021 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report, Jan
AMP, Ares plan $1.8bn private markets partnership... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Los Angeles-based Ares Management Corp. and Australia's AMP Ltd. have agreed to pursue a A$2.25 billion (US$1.8 billion) joint venture for AMP's private markets business.
The Australian wealth manager will retain 40 percent of AMP Capital's private markets busin
Emerging markets hedge fund assets extend record as expectations for global growth rise... [more]Opalesque Industry Update - Emerging Markets (EM) hedge funds, led by funds investing in China, surged in 4Q to extend FY 2020 gains as EM hedge fund capital reached a new record, driven by gains in EM regional equity markets and surging cryptocurrencies.
The HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index
CTAs rally despite dreadful momentum in equity markets... [more]With investors questioning the sustainability of equity valuations in a context of rising bonds yields, a Momentum reversal in equities is taking shape. Defensive sectors, and more recently Technology stocks, faced downward pressures while Financials and Energy rallied, leading to a -8.3% fall in th
SPAC and ESG fads are on collision course with billions at stake... [more]From Bloomberg: Two of the hottest equity market trends are headed for a clash as some ESG investors are having second thoughts about blank-check firms that have flooded the market.
Early signs show that money managers wedded to environmental, social and governance themes are reluctant to buy in
Not all risk parity strategies sucked last year... [more]From Institutional Investor: Edward Qian, chief investment officer of multi-asset at PanAgora Asset Management, believes there is enough value in risk parity without managers also trying to figure out where the market is headed. It's an approach that made PanAgora's risk parity investments outperfor
Investing: Disney, Uber saw s surge in hedge fund investors... [more]From Institutional Investor: Hedge funds heavily warmed up to the shares of Walt Disney Co. in the fourth quarter. The media and entertainment giant had the largest increase in net new hedge fund investors during the period compared to other widely held hedge fund stocks, according to an analysis of
People: Sun Hung Kai & Co. appoints industry veteran to lead hedge fund allocations group... [more]From Hubbis: Sun Hung Kai has announced the appointment of Allen Sing to lead the company's hedge fund allocation business, including expanding both research capabilities and assets under management.
Sing has been in fund of hedge funds (FOHF) business for 19 years, and he most recently headed t
Tech: A lucid sign of the tech bubble... [more]From FT: This week, tech stocks dipped and a generation of entrepreneurs was offered a glimpse of its own mortality. At the very least, it has been a reminder that a reset is long overdue after a year-long surge in tech stocks - and that capital will not always be as readily, and cheaply, available.
Europe: Treasury pain is starting to hurt Europe... [more]From Bloomberg: The reflation trade that's driven benchmark 10-year Treasury yields to their highest level in a year is causing real pain in European bond markets.
With the risk that higher borrowing costs will hinder efforts to rehabilitate the pandemic-stricken economy, verbal intervention by
And, finally: Now we know how much whipped cream is too much... [more]From BizarreNews: A woman was charged with driving under the influence after consuming whipped cream. Police said that 28-year-old Anna Thomas of Franklin, Tennessee, used cans of aerosol whipped cream to get high. She was charged with driving under the influence after crashing her car.
When pol
Welcome to the sixth issue of Opalesque's Horizons: Family Office & Investor Magazine - the new issue is attached as PDF and also available as ePUB at the link below.
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world's leading bio-gerontologists and widely known advocate of the provocative view that medical technology will one day all
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B. G., Opalesque Geneva: 68 years ago, economist Harry Markowitz formulated the Mean-Variance Efficient Frontier and a quantitative method that could help investors maximize risk-adjusted returns. According to his model of the Efficient Frontier, a portfolio is "efficient" if it has the best possibl..
