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Opalesque Roundup: Fundmanager.tools awards Octopus the 2022 Editors' Pick recognition: hedge fund news, week 44

Saturday, November 20, 2021

In the week ending November 19th 2021, Fundmanager.tools, the new intelligence division of Opalesque, announced that Octopus, the web based integrated front-to-back investment management Order-, Portfolio- and Fund Management system has been awarded the 2022 Editors' Pick recognition, ahead of Simcorp, Bloomberg AIM, Xentis, Hedgeguard and FundCount.

Fundmanager.tools' comparative matrix benchmarks the contenders in 105 detailed features, visualizing similarities and differences between products and services.

The matrix can be downloaded here for free: https://www.fundmanager.tools/portfoliomanagementsoftware.

Hedge fund managers returned 1.51% in October, underperforming the global equity market as represented by the MSCI ACWI (Local) which returned 4.61% during the month. In terms of 2021 performance, global hedge funds were up 9.18%, with more than a third of the constituents of the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index generating double-digit returns in 2021.

In new launches, Impact Cubed, a London-based provider of ESG data and analytics run by partners who have decades of investment experience is to launch a hedge fund with a negative footprint; Valkyrie Investments is planning to launch a $100 million DeFi hedge fund and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang have finished raising $2.5bn this month for Paradigm One, their first venture capital fund.

Meanwhile, the distressed-debt manager Oaktree Capital Management has ......................

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