Monthly Archives: June 2017

(FINalternatives) The responsible investing affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management, Mirova, has reportedly entered into discussions with impact investment manager Althelia Ecosphere regarding the acquisition of a majority equity interest in the firm. To read this article:

(FINalternatives) London-based systematic investment manager Winton Capital Management is launching a new absolute return multi-asset futures fund that will be UCITS-compliant and aimed at UK investors. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) For investors scrambling to keep pace with a hawkish shift in the world’s biggest central banks, the second half of 2017 just got a lot more interesting. Two weeks of rhetoric from policy makers in Europe and North America […]

(FINalternatives) Dyal Capital Partners has entered into a primary transaction with Atalaya Capital Management that will see the Neuberger Berman unit become a passive, non-voting minority partner in the alternative private credit manager. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, […]

(Bloomberg) Whether she’s sipping tea with Indian dairy farmers or interrogating company executives in a Hong Kong skyscraper, Elina Fung brings the same techniques to finding stock market winners. During multiple trips to central India — and many cups of […]

(FINalternatives) Keith Meister’s activist hedge fund Corvex Management LP has raised its stake in oil and gas producer Energen to 7.6% and criticized the company’s decision to maintain the status quo following a review of strategic alternatives. In late May, […]

(Bloomberg) Iron ore’s finally catching a break with a jump back into the $60s a ton. But don’t bank on the recovery lasting through to the year-end, according to Academia Capital, a commodities and emerging markets-focused hedge fund, which warns […]

(Bloomberg) Hedge funds using vast amounts of data, computing power, and machine-learning techniques to make money are drawing investors’ attention. But their brief track records show they suffer the same shortcomings as their more traditional peers. The Eurekahedge AI Hedge […]

(Bloomberg) Since he left his job as hedge-fund manager last year, Muhammed Yesilhark has spent his days teaching computers to pick stocks like he did in his 12-year career. By the end of the year, the former head of European […]

(FINalternatived) Regtech specialist Waymark Tech has launched a new tool that automatically identifies a company’s regulatory crossovers and conflicts between incoming regulations, such as MiFID II, GDPR, and PRIIPS. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) Humans won’t be obsolete in this lifetime. That’s what a quartet of money managers have posited in recent weeks as new technologies rewire finance, threatening to supplant the industry’s rank and file. Winton, a $30.6 billion hedge fund that’s […]