Category: Hedge FundsTowers Watson has released a global report, ‘Hedge fund investing – opportunities and challengers.’ The 41-page report (useful for investors considering hedge fund investments) covers trends in managed accounts, UCITS hedge funds & fees; and strategies including event-driven; managed futures; active currency; alternatives beta; reinsurance, emerging market currency and volatility. Highlights; Only around one-third of [...]
KPMG and AIMA have jointly released a global report entitled ‘The value of the hedge fund industry to investors, markets, and the broader economy.’ The 27-page report provides useful comparative statistics on hedge fund performance, volatility and correlations since 1994. Highlights. Hedge funds… Have significantly outperformed equities, bonds and commodities on a risk adjusted basis [...]
After incubating the Global Gaming Opportunities Fund for two years, Sydney-based Cheung Capital Management (CCM) is opening its flagship fund to outside investors. The market neutral hedge fund has returned 13.8% per annum since inception via an international mandate to invest in listed gaming and gaming related companies. Timothy Cheung, CCM’s founder, said ‘The fund [...]
A buddy of mine sent me an article from Hedge Fund Alert, one of the excellent net publications in the industry. The article talks about struggling seeders. In a way, I think there is a basic issue. Most investors these days are nervous. That’s why I have positioned my Triple A business to raise money [...]
UBS Global Asset Management Australia has advised that Simon Shields (head of equities) and Shane Fitzgerald (financials and gaming analyst) will be forming a separate, independently branded boutique on the new UBS equities boutique platform. They will launch a global total return strategy. The move follows the integration of ING Investment Management Australia into UBS [...]
Hedge fund marketers targeting high-net-worth investors may find the 2012 Futurewealth Report: A Client Revolution useful for insights into how the HNW approach and manage wealth. The 40+ page report is based on a survey of 3,300 high-net-worth, undertaken by Scorpio Partnership and sponsored by Standard Chartered Private Bank and SEI. Details at… “The Future [...]
The Australian Financial Review (AFR) and the Australian newspapers have in the past six weeks provided a record amount of positive/neutral media coverage on hedge funds. Articles by the AFR included; Separate coverage of US hedge funds OakTree Capital and Angelo Gordon on their views on the industry and their marketing to Australian investors. Profile [...]
Preqin’s February Hedge Fund Spotlight notes that the global fund-of-hedge-fund sector currently has $945 billion AuM. Highlights: Preqin has 596 fund-of-hedge-funds in its database. 289 are in North America, 243 in Europe and 64 in Asia/Rest of World. AuM for the sector peaked in Q1 2008 at $1,250 billion before falling to $950 billion in [...]
Macquarie Group will now offer hedge fund capital-raising services to external hedge funds through its Alternative Investment Strategies (AIS) division. The initiative will initially seek to represent three to five hedge fund managers who will ideally have over $500 million in assets under management and three-year track records. AIS has raised more than $3.1 billion [...]
Zenith Investment Partners has released its equity market neutral report. Five hedge funds were selected to Zenith’s approved list. The five were funds offered by Aurora, Bennelong, BlackRock, Pengana, and Regal. Another twelve market neutral hedge funds were researched but were not rated by Zenith. *** UK pension funds nearly doubled their allocations to hedge [...]
