Category: Hedge Funds InvestorsPreqin’s monthly ‘Hedge Fund Spotlight’ has studied investments in hedge funds by Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) Highlights. 38% of SWFSs are known to be investing in hedge funds and a further 2% are considering making allocations to the asset class. Many SWFs are newcomers to the asset class; however they have become relatively comfortable with [...]
The $77 billion Future Fund’s alternatives Iincluding hedge funds) allocation remained steady at around $14.48 billion as at 31 March 2012. As a percentage of the fund, alternatives fell to 18.8 percent, from 19.8 percent 3 months ago and 21.6 percent in Sep 2011. However, it is still the largest asset class within the SWF’s [...]
The Australian newspaper also profiled several family office advisors regarding their clients’ growing interest in hedge funds. Executives quoted included; Thomas Murphy, managing partner of Family Office Research and Management who favours long/short funds. (30 and 40 wealthy families as clients). James Burkitt, CEO of a networking group, The Table Club, (which includes the top [...]
HSBC Insurance is considering investments in currencies and physical commodities, according to the firm’s Hong Kong-based Group CIO James Hughes, speaking to AsianInvestor. The $75 billion firm already has hedge fund investments but is mulling other alternative and ‘return seeking/growth’ asset classes. ***** Wilson HTM Investment Group has received insufficiently attractive bids for its 79.3 [...]
Preqin’s March 2012 Hedge Fund ‘Spotlight’ reveals plans by AON Master Trust to allocate around $20 million to macro hedge funds. AON currently has no holdings in hedge funds although had in the past. Preqin also notes that Select Asset Management is actively seeking one to three additional managers in liquid strategies to run a [...]
We do a lot of marketing in the Family Office space in Australia. You may be interested to know that we use a database which researches up to 100 Australian and New Zealand based Family Offices. We are in regular contact with around 40 Family Offices. There are quite a number of offshore Family Offices [...]
SEI has released further results from its fifth annual global survey of institutional hedge funds investors. Key findings include; Look-alike strategies are a problem. Six in ten investors agree that hedge fund strategies are too similar Operational strength has become a major competitive advantage for hedge fund managers While transparency has improved, investors still see [...]
Credit Suisse has released the results of its annual Global Hedge Fund Investor Survey. 600 institutional investors representing $1.04 trillion of hedge fund investments participated. Highlights; Investors have adjusted their target returns expectations for their hedge fund portfolios to account for the current low interest rate environment and difficult market conditions. The average expectation for [...]
Deutsche Bank and Financial Risk Management (FRM – $9 billion AuM) have partnered to launch the industry’s first hedge funds seeding managed account platform. The ‘dbalternatives Discovery’ platform will be based on Deutsche Bank’s dbalternatives managed account platform which was established in 2002 and currently has $12 billion under management. FRM’s hedge funds seeding division, [...]
The fifth annual survey of institutional hedge funds conducted by SEI and Greenwich Associates has found that: Nearly 38 percent of investors plan to increase their allocations to hedge funds over the next 12 months – down from 54 percent a year earlier. Hedge funds represented 16.7 percent of institutional portfolios in 2011, versus 12 [...]
