Hedge Funds Review
Alternative markets give edge to Florin Court strategy
By concentrating on exotic and alternative markets, Florin Court Capital Fund has sidestepped overcrowding and correlation to the main trend following commodity trading advisers, offering investors a diversified alternative to the standard systemic macro…
Best overall platform: Deutsche Bank Liquid Alternatives Platform (Deutsche Bank)
One of the largest and most comprehensive investment platforms for alternative strategies
Best seeder: Tages Emerging Opportunities Fund I & LFP Absolute Return Selection
Tages’ hedge fund seeding business concentrates on spotting top early-stage managers
Most innovative FoHF: Evolution (Lyxor Asset Management)
Alternative multi-manager fixed-income fund offers exposure to diversified performance drivers
European FoHF of the year: ACL Alternative Fund (Abbey Capital)
Success comes from time in the market, not timing of the market
Outstanding contribution to the European FoHF industry: Lionel Paquin, CEO, Lyxor Asset Management
Continual innovation is how FoHFs will be able to meet the challenges of the future
New hedge fund plans on grabbing flash-crash profits
Manager says systemic risk has reduced, creating opportunity in sell-offs
Hedge funds seeking cheap hedges for Italian referendum
Buy side turning to Brexit-inspired hedges for political tail risk
Taking aim at efficient market theory
Winton founder David Harding slams ‘weak’ theoretical basis for alternative beta
Why re-correlation matters in alternative premia investing
Understanding key risk can be difference between success and failure
Down to luck: why today’s hedge funds can’t rely on just skill
Have hedge funds got so good at investing that luck now dominates the field?
Hedge fund redemptions stemmed in August
Macro funds still suffering; commodities inflows continue
Pension funds cautioned on equity-bond correlation
Buy-siders need to plug changes into VAR, say risk managers
Ultra-short funds see opening in money market reforms
US asset managers aim to capitalise as investors move cash from money market funds
Quant jobs at risk from tech advances
But humans and 'intelligent' computers a strong combination, hedge fund managers say
Buy-side risk managers doubt own liquidity metrics
Risk Hedge Europe attendees say they lack formal measures of liquidity
HAL to pay: where hedge funds think AI can really work
Some funds using artificial intelligence already; others see obstacles to its success
Man AHL investors profit from artificial intelligence
Hedge fund puts clients’ money in machine learning and seed capital in deep learning
A tale of two worlds: performance and risk
Performance and risk offer two complementary views of investment management. It’s time to swap some DNA
Poor performers push hedge fund redemptions higher
Year-to-date outflows pass $55 billion
In search of an edge: CTAs launch into swaps trading
Systematic hedge funds are looking to new markets for a competitive advantage