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24 May 2012
Government-sponsored initiative to develop the asset management industry in France is attracting attention from other countries too, with the seeder already receiving some 80 applications from alternative investment managers in France
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24 May 2012
Fast-growing but low-profile €6 billion loan manager Avoca has embarked on a major drive to diversify its asset management platform with a series of high-level hires and additions to expand the business into the related areas of long/short credit funds, convertibles and structured credit
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24 May 2012
Ex-Sandelman and Citadel manager Nick Stukas secures $75 million investment from $20 billion US fund of funds group for his well-performing credit and capital structure strategy
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24 May 2012
Administrators are facing widespread challenges and pressures at a time of slow growth in the hedge fund industry and increasing demands on administration providers from regulators, managers and investors
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24 May 2012
Long/short financials specialist Richard Urwick is building a strong track record for a reworked version of his global equity strategy, with a broader investment remit and incentives for investors to commit long-term capital
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24 May 2012
Having hit capacity with their long-running Europe Dynamic Long Short Fund, Jon Ingram’s equity team at JP Morgan have rolled out a new long/short fund focused on European and global technology stocks
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24 May 2012
Ex-Trafalgar Asset Managers founder Theo Phanos and his team are exploiting opportunities, dislocations and synergies with their focus on European credit and long/short equity through the firm’s well-performing Recovery and Azri vehicles
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20 Apr 2012
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20 Apr 2012
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20 Apr 2012
Central banks have been so supportive and there has been a real tailwind behind risk assets. But there is plenty of potential for shocks
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20 Apr 2012
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20 Apr 2012
Former Moore Capital and Morgan Stanley team have a strong multi-year record of managing risk and generating returns in all market conditions with their liquid and scalable macro strategy run from Zug and London
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20 Apr 2012
Ex-Kazimir co-founder Dimitri Kryukov’s Verno Russia fund is shaping up well, with good Q1 performance and a positive outlook for equities
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20 Apr 2012
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
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20 Apr 2012
Ex-Lansdowne man George Michelakis has delivered strong numbers over six years with his Lasker fund – boosted by a portfolio construction overhaul that helped to drive a 20% return in 2011
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26 Mar 2012
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
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26 Mar 2012
Assets in European hedge funds remained stable in 2011 in the face of increasingly severe market and macro headwinds – although the Eurozone crisis took its toll in the second half
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26 Mar 2012
For more than a decade Charlemagne Capital’s OCCO Eastern European fund has been one of the star performers in the often-volatile emerging market equity space – managing to capture most of the upside while minimising exposure to the downside risks to which emerging market equities have been so vulnerable
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26 Mar 2012
The event-driven specialist is making good returns with a strategy that is focused on liquid investments and soft-catalyst plays in Europe, Asia and the emerging markets
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26 Mar 2012
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26 Mar 2012
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26 Mar 2012
Twelve months after absorbing Gartmore, the combined Henderson/AlphaGen hedge fund group is flourishing in terms of manager morale, investor inflows and new growth opportunities
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26 Mar 2012
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
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27 Feb 2012
New hedge fund launches in Europe remained at low levels in 2011 against a backdrop of volatile markets and extreme political and macro uncertainty. But the quality of many of the new funds coming through is the highest for many years – and the pace is picking up again
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27 Feb 2012
Former Cheyne special situations manager Massi Khadjenouri and her new partners have racked up strong numbers in a poor period for event-driven strategies with their KL Special Opportunities fund
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27 Feb 2012
For many hedge funds, equity market volatility has been a curse of late. For Amundi’s equity volatility funds, it is the raison d’être of the manager’s whole strategy
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27 Feb 2012
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27 Feb 2012
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27 Feb 2012
Experienced macro strategist Tim Bond is off to a strong start with Odey’s new equities-focused macro strategy