Global macro strategies take centre stage within innovation portfolio to reduce risk
Dutch bank teams up with Lyxor to offer open-architecture ‘pick and mix’ platform
China-related stocks have been under pressure but where others might see fear, Andy Mantel, founder and chief executive of Pacific Sun Advisors, sees opportunity in the fast-growing, volatile market
GLG’s experienced TMT sector specialists, Philip Pearson and Anthony Burton, are pursuing a quasi-market neutral approach to exploit twin themes of creation and destruction throughout the technology world in a new phase of rapid innovation and virtual revolution driven by the smartphone and the tablet
Man Group CEO Peter Clarke believes the acquisition of GLG has given rise to a uniquely balanced and scalable alternative investment business that spans a growing range of liquid systematic and discretionary strategies, that can access all types of investors around the world and that should be able to deliver uncorrelated return streams in most market environments. But a strong performance in 2012 would help to convince sceptics after a tough year in 2011. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with EuroHedge, Clarke talks about strategy, synergy, culture, growth, markets, new products, regulation, acquisitions and much more besides
Backed by a diverse team of nine portfolio managers, Patrice Moyal’s well-established Visio Capital firm is a leader among South African hedge funds — and is increasingly profiting from the wider African growth story, with a growing focus on investing into other countries on the continent as well