16 Oct 2012
Real asset investors look to hedge funds for supply, says Gamma Finance
Gamma Finance, a provider of advisory services to the alternative investment sector, has been awarded advisory mandates of USD500m by…
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Official gold estimates are GBP560m too high, says James Turk
James Turk, an authority on precious metals, has published a report for the GoldMoney Foundation saying the Thomson Reuters GFMS official…
PSAM’s Sayed cautiously optimistic on European M&A deal flow as ECB moves to stabilise markets
By James Williams – "As an Eads board member, I am deeply disappointed the politicians were not persuaded by the industrial logic of this…
15 Oct 2012
Spirit of entrepreneurism delivers cumulative returns of 480%
“I like to describe ourselves at Platinum Partners as entrepreneurial traders. We select and promote entrepreneurs who have an…
The emergence of electronic gold…?
“I hope our fund will be the first hedge fund to take advantage of using Bitcoins,” explains Anatoliy Knyazev in Moscow. One of Exante’s…
The anti-emotion approach to stock trading
Dr Anton Dudoukin and Dmitry Dudoukin are partners in Courant Asset Management Ltd. Courant Asset Management is the managing company of…
Consistency drives performance of WEELS fund
“Delivering sustainable value” lies at the heart of the investment philosophy at Wermuth Asset Management, a German family investment firm…
Trading faster than the speed of light…
Hendrik Klein (pictured) and his team at Zurich-based Da Vinci Invest AG have been trading futures on Eurex since 1995, using a…
Volatile markets play into the hands of multi-arbitrage shop
“We really like risk-on risk-off markets. I personally think this is going to continue for some time yet. The eurozone issue is not going…
A one-click approach to accessing alpha
By James Williams – EXANTE is a unique integrated trading and fund platform offering whose genesis grew out of a challenge faced by its…
14 Oct 2012
Why you lose by trying not to lose
Most people have quite a clear attitude towards losing money from their investments – that they don’t like it – and for good reason.…
12 Oct 2012
GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index up 1.11 per cent in September
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for September 2012 measured 1.11 per cent. Hedge fund flows as…
Hedge funds gain USD5.1bn in August
The hedge fund industry took in USD5.1bn (0.3 per cent of assets) in August, reversing a USD9.2bn outflow (0.5 per cent of assets) in July,…
11 Oct 2012
Dutch financial alternatives community raises more than EUR100,000 for charity
Over 160 professionals from the Dutch financial alternatives community who attended a Gala dinner on 3 October have raised more than…
Rising global equities lift hedge fund performance
Hedge funds gained 1.79 per cent in September, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is up 5.99 per…
