With recent research from Knight Foundation revealing that as little as 0.04% per cent of US-based AuM is managed by diverse-owned hedge funds, investors are increasingly requesting data and actively looking to invest in diverse funds.

With the ESG juggernaut gathering pace in financial markets, how hedge funds traverse short-selling challenges, tech advances, and the data “wild west” will be key to unlocking future returns. Long seen as the preserve of traditional long-only buy-and-hold strategies, impact

About a third of hedge funds invest in ESG-dedicated strategies leading to investment demand being considered a ‘primary driver’ in improving ESG, research from BNP Paribas shows. One-fifth of investors plan to increase this in 2022 and a further 23

Some 155 companies will be at risk of activist attacks in the next 18 months, according to the findings of global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) latest analysis and predictor of shareholder activism in Europe in 2022.

As governments strive to meet sustainability targets, the global push for more formalised ESG standards and frameworks is bringing challenges – as well as opportunities – for hedge funds amid a fractured regulatory landscape. With the climate emergency increasingly at

Hedge funds again outperformed the S&P Total Return Index in April, despite losing 2.66%, bringing the year-to-date loss to -5.55%, according to BarclayHedge.