By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - Founder and CEO of Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and marketing firm. Over the past decade, life settlements hedge funds have steadily gained acceptance among institutional investors. Their appeal lies in the potential to deliver attractive double-digit returns while maintaining low volatility and a high ...

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: BlackRock's 2025 Global Family Office Survey revealed that alternative assets are more important than ever to family offices, making up 42% of their portfolios, up from 39% from BlackRock's previous (2022-2023) survey. Looking ahead, private credit and infrastructure are the most-favored alternative assets, said the survey that covered ...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Hedge funds and mutual funds are among the most prominent vehicles for investors seeking growth and diversification. However, a critical question persists: which fund type is better equipped to handle extreme financial risk contagion...

Index investors should pay managers a 'separate fee' for climate engagement, suggests IIGCC From IPE: Climate-focused investors should consider paying a separate fee to their index fund managers to cover the cost of engaging with underlying companies, the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has said. In a new report exploring th...

Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a different way of owning stocks coming to you soon: the option of holding just the dividend portion of a stock, independent of its price movements. Or capturing the stock's capital appreciation with no dividend stream attached to it....

By Opalesque Geneva: Commodities are the top-performing sector in 2025, and investor interest in commodities and CTAs is growing, according to some. The BCOM TR commodity index is up 8.9% YTD through March (11.5% in the last year) - below the 2008, 2011 and 2022 highs but trending up. <...

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: 2024 has been a positive year for systematic global macro fund Gnomon Alpha. The Gnomon Alpha Fund Global Macro and Global Macro Enhanced share classes returned +1.1% and +1.5%, respectively, in November, and are up +7.7% and +10.4% ...