While parts of the private equity industry have faced a challenging dealmaking environment in recent years, Nordic mid-market buyout manager Summa Equity has navigated...
Private credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial intelligence could disrupt parts of the...
After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
By Scott Schefrin, Portfolio Manager at AB Hedge Fund Solutions: After a series of slower years for deal activity, merger arbitrage has re-emerged as a compelling strategy...
By Bjarne Graven Larsen: For decades during the great moderation, the 60/40 portfolio was the institutional investor's Swiss army knife. Equities grew wealth; bonds...
By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
Chinese futures in general add substantial diversification benefits to global futures - and the Chinese commodity futures that dominate certain Aspect Capital strategies also...
By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...
By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: After a decade of studying CTAs, we have drawn three conclusions about the nature of their alpha generation. At the...
Hedge funds are increasingly focusing on relative performance rather than absolute returns, a trend that is worrying the industry April 3 (Reuters): Hedge funds...
According to new research, commodities futures is an excellent portfolio diversifier, having displayed historical average excess returns similar to equity April 3 (HedgeWorld): The...
According to the American hedge fund Jana Partners, the Stockholm Stock Exchange ranks as one of Europe’s most overrated stock markets. Consequently, the fund...
Allocations to asset classes such as hedge funds by European institutions are profoundly mistaken, argues notable investment strategy researcher Guy Fraser-Sampson in a HedgeWeek...
The Norwegian managed futures fund Interkraft Energy Fund is the best performing fund in the Hedgenordic NHX hedge fund index in February The Norwegian...
The first Spanish onshore hedge fund may launch in the fourth quarter of 2006. March 30 (Opalesque): Opalesque editor Matthias Knab reports live from...
