Today's Exclusives
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Opalesque Exclusive: Bob Treue's Barnegat Fund ends 2020 up 11.67% [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Despite initially losing money when the pandemic hit, 2020 turned out to be a good year for Bob Treue's Barnegat Fund. According to performance data for investors reviewed by Opalesque, the fund gained 2.29% in December and closed out the year up +11.67%.
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Hedge fund liquidations increased by 20% in 2020 [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Hedge Fund launches have remained steady in recent years, but the number of fund liquidations increased nearly 20% last year compared to 2019 (from 66 liquidations in 2019 to 79 in 2020), said a study.
According to Pivotal Path's annual review of launches and l
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Kennedy Lewis raises $2.1bn for the sophomore opportunistic credit fund [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The opportunistic credit manager Kennedy Lewis Investment Management closed its latest opportunistic credit fund, Kennedy Lewis Capital Partners Master Fund II, at $2.1 billion.
Kennedy Lewis' first fund closed in November 2018 with over $500 million of committ
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North American buyout funds AUM stands at $1.38tn [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Fundraising and strong performance have helped North American buyout funds soar in value in recent years. Total assets under management (AUM) stand at $1.38tn as of June 2020, a 3.7x increase since 2005, says Preqin.
Average annual fundraising for North America-foc
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Hedge funds return strong at +16.69% in 2020, says Preqin [more]
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark had a strong end to 2020, posting +3.99% in December, said Preqin Hedge Fund Performance Update of December 2020.
The YTD return was pushed to +16.69%, and the three-year annualized return to +8.20%. This marked a drast
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19. Jan. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Revisiting the Corona Fighters (2) [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: We revisit some of the original Corona Fighters - hedge funds and alternative asset managers who successfully protected assets and outperformed the markets in early 2020 - and see how they did at the end of the year.
The Canadian multi-strategy fund
The
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18. Jan. |
Opalesque Roundup: More hedge funds report market beating returns in 2020: hedge fund news, week 03 [more]
Opalesque Roundup: More hedge funds report market beating returns in 2020: hedge fund news, week 03
In the week ending January 15th 2021, a lot happened at Renaissance Technologies as its famed Medallion fund, available only to current and former partners, had one of its best years ever, surgi
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14. Jan. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Quant pioneer profits by eschewing traditional investing beliefs [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Robert Zuccaro is a quantitative investment pioneer and CIO of Target QR Strategies, which is based in Florida and in New York. His Golden Eagle Growth Fund, which was launched in May 2020, returned triple-digits that year.
There are six reasons why the fund is ahead
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13. Jan. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Niederhoffer eyes new risks in 2021 - "There's no vaccine for a debased currency" [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: 2021 could be the year where investors remember why they keep uncorrelated strategies in the portfolio, according to hedge fund manager Roy Niederhoffer founder of New York-based R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management. 2020's rebound in stocks could be giving
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12. Jan. |
Institutions return to private markets with a greater focus on ESG [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Institutional investor interest in sustainable investing could reach new highs over the next few years if recent investor sentiment data from Commonfund is any indication. According to Commonfund Capital's fourth-annual private markets survey, investors indi
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11. Jan. |
Opalesque Exclusive: French behavioural finance specialist sees no value in timing the market [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Quantology Capital Management is a Paris-based hedge fund and specialist of behavioural finance. Its motto is "No beliefs, only processes".
The firm believes that market opportunities are mainly linked to behav
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11. Jan. |
Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds shine with strong performance: hedge fund news, week 02 [more]
In the week ending January 8th 2021, in performance news, Emerging manager Breacher Capital Management ended 2020 on a high note - according to performance information for i
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07. Jan. |
Breacher Capital Management ends 2020 up more than 55% [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Emerging manager Breacher Capital Management ended 2020 on a high note. According to performance information for investors reviewed by Opalesque, the BCM Partners
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04. Jan. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Credit quality worsens in leveraged lending [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New data from S&P Global suggests that investors should be wary of credit quality within the leveraged lending market.
LCD recently surveyed buy-side and sell-side participants in the leveraged lending market to gauge sentiment heading into 2021. According
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04. Jan. |
Opalesque Roundup: New market dynamics foster hedge fund renaissance with more funds launching: hedge fund news, week 01 [more]
In the week ending January 01st 2021, the HFR Market Microstructure Report revealed that new hedge fund launches increased to the highest level in five quarters in 3Q 2
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30. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: SureFire Capital's multi-strat fund of funds stands out in a challenging year [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: An emerging fund of funds from Montreal-based family office SureFire Capital is topping performance award lists in 2020.
SureFire Multi-Strat has posted doubl
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23. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: Academics, regulators, try to de-risk innovation [more]
Can you effectively de-risk innovation? Delegates at the recent Opalesque Innovation Roundtable suggest that it is possible for academics, institutions, and regulators to come together and create a framework that allows new growth and governance.
Delegates noted that there is more opportunity t
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23. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Amsterdam veterans launch equity arbitrage, volatility trading hedge fund with $24m committed capital [more]
Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Privium Fund Management BV, a global alternative investment fund manager, today officially announced the launch of a new fund, the SAVIN Multi-Strategy Arbitrage Fund (SAVI
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22. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: Sandboxes can be part of 'real value' innovations [more]
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Among the great topics explored during the latest Opalesque Roundtable, which theme is "The Great Disruption", some centered around sandboxes, which are ever so necessary as the dig
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05. Jan. 2021 |
Other Voices: Top hedge fund industry trends for 2021 [more]
By: Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners
1. Hedge fund industry AUM to reach all-time high driven by net inflows
Hedge fund industry assets will reach an all-time high in 2021 driven by one of the largest positive net inflows into the hedge fund industry in over a decade. Although the
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29. Dec. 2020 |
Other Voices: SEC gives "special purposes" brokers the go-ahead on digital assets custody [more]
By:Peter LaVigne, Nicholas Losurdo, Jana Steenholdt - Goodwin
Christmas came early for many in the digital asset community by way of a statement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2020 that grants relief in the area of broker "custody" of digital asset securities. T
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29. Dec. 2020 |
Other Voices: SEC gives "special purposes" brokers the go-ahead on digital assets custody [more]
By:Peter LaVigne, Nicholas Losurdo, Jana Steenholdt - Goodwin
Christmas came early for many in the digital asset community by way of a statement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2020 that grants relief in the area of broker "custody" of digital asset securities. T
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17. Dec. 2020 |
Other Voices: Congress gives SEC 10-year window to pursue fraudulent funds [more]
By: Kevin R. Edgar, Teresa Goody Guillén, Bari R. Nadworny and Michelle N. Tanney
On December 8, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives approved final passage of a $740.5 billion annual defense policy bill, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021b
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30. Nov. 2020 |
Other Voices: UK private equity: horizon scanning for 2021 [more]
By: Simon Beddow and Ian Ivory, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
In a year dominated by the pandemic, it is easy to lose sight of some of the more granular legal developments and trends coming over the horizon for 2021 which, in their own ways, can also have a significant impact on the UK/EU private
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13. Nov. 2020 |
Other voices: UK outlines its plans for wide-ranging new foreign investment review powers [more]
By: Marc Israel, Kate Kelliher
The UK has outlined the details of its new National Security and Investment Bill, heralding the introduction of a new regime for foreign direct investments in the UK. The new regime would introduce, for the first time, a mandatory pre-screening mechanism for deals
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05. Nov. 2020 |
Other Voices: Resurging leveraged loan issuance points to a stronger year [more]
By: Jeremy Duffy, Eliza McDougall, Jake Mincemoyer, White & Case
After taking a deep dive in Q2, US leveraged loan issuance picked up in Q3, while European markets gained year on year.
Having navigated extreme market dislocation due to COVID-19 for the past six months, leveraged loan activity
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22. Oct. 2020 |
Other Voices: SEC updates regs for funds of funds, but some limitations remain [more]
By: Scott Moss, Lauren A. Schwartz, Lowenstein Sandler
On October 7, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt rule 12d1-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and related amendments to streamline and enhance the regulatory framework, which governs registered funds th
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Jeremy Grantham: "SPACs should be illegal"
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Pensions swamped in a sea of negative real rates
From FA Mag: Defined-benefit pension plans were already barely treading water heading into 2020. In the years ahead, the risk is as great as ever that a large swath of them will drown. As the name implies, defined-benefit pensions promis - New Launches: Lesser-known Tiger Seed launches long-only fund, Bill Gates-led fund raises another $1bn to invest in clean tech, Claret Capital strikes initial close for first fund since spinout from Harbert[more]
Lesser-known Tiger Seed launches long-only fund
From Institutional Investor: A hedge fund whose largest investor is Julian Robinson Jr.'s Tiger Management has launched a long-only fund as part of a larger reshuffling of its investment vehicles. Tiger Legatus Capital Management, a so-ca
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