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A Swiss family office is seeking to allocate $5 million to liquid alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, managed futures, commodities, and funds providing exposure to the future energy ecosystem. The mandate represents the alternative investments allocation for one of the family office’s underlying clients, a trust structure with...

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HSBC’s Three Decades of Building Hedge Fund Portfolios

Hedge fund investing has become increasingly institutionalized and resource-intensive, requiring access to specialized managers alongside deep due diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and ongoing...

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...

Why Some Nordic Allocators Prefer Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

Many institutional allocators spend years building portfolios of single-strategy hedge funds across different asset classes, geographies, and investment styles. Yet there is also a...

Allocators Seek Sharpe, Not Spectacle When Opting for Multi Managers

Global allocators are once again paying closer attention to multi-strategy and multi-manager hedge fund solutions. But unlike the years before the financial crisis, the...

OP’s R2 Crystal Sees Stronger Case for Hedge Funds

For much of the past decade, hedge funds struggled to compete against strong beta-driven markets fueled by ultra-low interest rates and abundant liquidity. But...