Alternative UCITS market is set for further growth: Deutsche Bank... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Over half of the responding alternative UCITS allocators are planning to increase their allocation through September 2019, said a survey.
Deutsche Bank estimates that these investors collectively will invest $13.7bn in new capital to alternative UCITS, having alread
East Capital acquires Swedish fund management firm Monyx from NewCap Holding... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The specialist in emerging and frontier market, East Capital Holding has acquired Swedish fund management company Monyx, consisting of Monyx Asset Management and Nordic Fund Services S.A. from its owner NewCap Holding A/S.
Monyx manages more than EUR3bn ($3.39bn)
Outperforming hedge funds, Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index down -0.10% in November... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Outperforming the -0.62% monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, the Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index returned -0.10% in November.
Jason Schwarz, President of Wilshire Funds Management and Wilshire Analytics said: "Markets experienced mixed performance
Multifamily office assets jump up more than 50% to $1.2tn in U.S. over the last five years... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Multifamily office assets - and marketplace acceptance of their client-centric model - are both up sharply, increasing more than fifty percent to an estimated $1.2tn in the U.S. over the last five years, said an industry report.
Multifamily offices provide comprehe
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index down -1.32% in November... [more]The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for November 2018 measured -1.32%. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.67% in December.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index rose 0.67% for December 2018, an improvement from the
Merger arbitrage funds show it has been a good year to bet on M&A... [more]From Financial News: It has been a choppy year for investors. The stock market has seen multiple rounds of volatility, with the S&P 500 down 1.3% year to date. Bonds have not been a shelter. The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index has slipped 1% since the beginning of the year.
One type
M&A: Goldman Sachs Asset Management buys hedge funds-of-funds manager Aptitude... [more]From PIonline.com: Goldman Sachs Asset Management will acquire Aptitude Investment Management, a hedge funds-of-funds manager, GSAM spokesman Patrick Scanlan confirmed. Scanlan declined to provide terms of the deal, which is expected to close before the end of 2018.
The Aptitude team, which m
Man Group sets up responsible investment framework... [more]From City Wire: Man Group has stepped up its ESG efforts with the introduction of a responsible investment framework and a cross-company exclusion list, both of which will guide funds' future exposure. The developments come off the back of the recent formation of Man Group's Responsible Investment t
Manager Portrait: Inside the steady rise of hedge fund investor William Heard... [more]From Forbes: For the $3 trillion hedge fund industry, this year is all but assured to be one of the worst on record. Big funds are shuttering on an almost weekly basis, and limited partners are tiring of investors who lagged the bull market but then failed to capitalize on recent bouts of volatility
Tech: Demand for tech experts to jump as disruptive technologies take off... [more]From IPE: Almost three-quarters of senior decision makers in the financial services industry expect a big jump in demand for chief technology officers (CTOs) during the next five years, research by back office provider Intertrust has found.
Based on a survey of 500 executives in asset manageme
Outlook: Family offices become financial titans... [more]From Economist: Now an essential part of every self-respecting billionaire's stable, family offices (fos) are booming. Their roles include managing families' wealth, administering their assets and often other services, from the mundane (paying bills) to the knotty (succession-planning). The biggest
And, finally: 25-metre parking space too small for drunk... [more]In order to park his car in a parking space about 25 meters long, a drunken driver in Germany needed about six starts. During his parking attempts on a street in Immendingen, the 50-year-old also pushed a parked car one meter forward, to make matters worse, according to the police. In doing so, he
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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Bill Michaelcheck, founder and CIO of Mariner Investment Group, an alternative asset manager headquartered in New York, believes the market has turned a corner and that volatility is here to stay. Now is a good time for fixed income investors to do arbitrage bet..
