Stock-picking boutique ALCUR Fonder has announced three new appointments across its investment, trading, and compliance functions. Isak Lenholm joins the investment team with a...
After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
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...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
Infrastructure has traditionally been viewed as one of the more defensive corners of private markets, characterized by essential services, stable cash flows, and hard-asset...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
By Thomas Babbedge at GreshamQuant: I first went to the Exeter Racecourse when I was thirteen years old with the girl next-door. I don't remember where...
By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...
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...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
In a HedgeWeek commentary, Peter Jones, Director, Securities Evaluations, Standard & Poor's and Joseph Mariathasan, Consultant, StratCom outline the latest trends in bonds valuations....
The UKs Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published its feedback to Discussion Paper 05/4 Hedge Funds: A Discussion of Risk and Regulatory Engagement, which...
European companies have kicked off 2006 with more mergers and acquisitions than in any other first quarter on record March 27 (Reuters): European companies...
Hedge funds had another good month in February, but performance slipped from January March 24 (Reuters): According to a Eurohedge survey, hedge funds had...
Lock-up periods for hedge funds are on the increase, and have largely been accepted as necessary way of life by investors March 23 (InstitutionalInvestor):...