09 Jan 2020
Top hedge fund industry trends for 2020
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends through their contact with…
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Emerging market hedge funds close turbulent decade with strong gains
HFRI’s EM Index up 11.67 per cent in 2019, as market conditions hint at positive start to new yearEmerging markets-focused hedge funds…
Lazard Asset Management launches Global Thematic Focus Fund
Lazard Asset Management Limited (LAML) has launched the Lazard Global Thematic Focus Fund, a UCITS-compliant Fund seeks to achieve…
CalALTS appoints new Chair
Marc Wolf, Financial Services Industry Practice Leader for the South and West Region at accounting, tax, and advisory CohnReznick, has been…
08 Jan 2020
Hedge funds record best annual returns in a decade in 2019, says HFR
Hedge funds advanced in December to record their strongest annual returns since 2009, when the markets were recovering from the Global…
Options secures significant growth investment from Abry Partners
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has secured a significant growth investment from Abry…
Invast Global to hold charity ‘trading day’ in aid of Australian bushfire crisis
Invast Global is to donate all trading commissions earned on 31 January to the NSW Rural Fire Services to support the volunteer…
Managed Funds Association appoints President and CEO
The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global hedge fund industry, has named Bryan N Corbett as its new…
QMA appoints client portfolio manager
QMA, the quantitative equity and multi-asset solutions specialist of PGIM, has strengthened its Europe-based team with the appointment of…
Semper Short Duration Fund surpasses USD500m in AUM
Semper Capital Management's Semper Short Duration Fund (SEMIX, SEMRX) has surpassed USD500 million in assets under management as a result…
OptionMetrics updates US options database to address evolving markets
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors, including quant traders and hedge fund…
Truss Edge improves trade monitoring and reporting for funds with latest release of Safari technology platform
Truss Edge, a specialist technology platform for ETF and hedge fund operations, has announced the latest update to its Safari…
Buzzacott appoints Head of Financial Services Tax
Buzzacott has appointed Antoine Housden as Head of Financial Services Tax.Housden joins Buzzacott from EY, where he worked as a director in…
Energy hedge funds eye renewed oil volatility following Iran missile strike
The oil price surge following the deadly US airstrike against Iranian general Qassem Suleimani is unlikely to be sustained,…
07 Jan 2020
EEX completes Powernext integration
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has successfully integrated Powernext and Gaspoint Nordic as of 1 January 2020. All required approvals…
