Block Trading by asset managers hits six-year high, says TABB Group
According to TABB Group, block trading volume for asset managers rose to 19 per cent in 2015, surpassing levels last seen in 2009 due to changes in investment strategies, access to new liquidity...
View ArticleMan Group’s results hit by difficult markets
Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund group in the world, has published interim results to end June 2016 that show that funds under management are down from the end December figure of USD78.7...
View ArticleCTAs continue strong performance into July
Societe Generale Prime Services reports that CTAs continued their good performance from June with all CTA indices posting positive returns in July. read more
View ArticleHFR reports hedge funds up 3.5 per cent year to date
Data from HFR shows that hedge funds advanced in August led by a resurgence in Energy/Basic Materials and Activist strategies. read more
View ArticleINDOS assets under depositary grow by 160 per cent year on year
UK-based independent AIFMD depositary INDOS Financial has recorded a 160 per cent increase in assets under depositary from September 2015 to end-September 2016 of USD8 billion to a total of USD13...
View ArticleCTAs and global macro improve their performance
Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team has released a report on the performance of active mutual funds versus their benchmarks in 2016. The team writes that it would be an understatement to say that active...
View ArticleSmaller hedge funds will outperform in 2017, predicts Agecroft Partners
Smaller hedge fund managers will continue to outperform during 2017, according to Don Steinbrugge Managing partrner of Agecroft partners, who has revealed what he sees as being the top hedge fund...
View ArticleCTA indices post positive returns in December after difficult year
Societe Generale Prime Services reports that all SG CTA indices posted positive returns in December 2016 at the end of what it describes as a difficult quarter. However, the SG CTA Index closed the...
View ArticleEurekahedge figures reveal hedge fund industry assets down over 2016
Latest figures from Eurekahedge reveal that hedge funds gained 1.01 per cent during the month of December, with 2016 returns coming in at 4.48 per cent.This compares with the MSCI AC World Index...
View ArticleHedge funds see largest annual increase since 2014
HFR’s latest report finds that total hedge fund industry capital rose for the third consecutive quarter, surpassing the USD3 trillion milestone for the first time.read more
View ArticleCommodity fund achieves top performance
Cayman Islands-domiciled Montreux Natural Resources fund has come in as the second best-performing hedge fund in Preqin’s Global Hedge Fund report with a return of 142 per cent over the last 12 months,...
View ArticleLyxor reports hedge fund performance recovers in February
Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team has focused on the performance of value equity funds versus their benchmarks in this week’s report, commenting that value stocks have lost steam but active managers...
View ArticleEmerging market hedge funds reach record capital levels
HFR reports that total capital invested in Emerging Markets (EM) hedge funds climbed to a record level to begin 2017, as energy commodities and the US dollar posted strong gains. Assets dedicated to EM...
View ArticleCTA performance in the positive for February
According to the data from Societe Generale Prime Services February was a strong month for managed futures strategies, with all three CTA indices (the CTA index, the CTA mutual fund index and the Trend...
View ArticleHedge funds post gains of 3.18 per cent in Q1 2017
The hedge fund industry continued its positive start to the year with another month of gains in March with the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark recording returns of 0.68 per cent through the...
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