(Opalesque) Priya Kaftan has joined Heard Capital as head of investor relations and product strategy. Kaftan joins the firm from Silver Point Capital where she was previously a senior associate. Heard Capital is a Chicago-based fund that invests in six […]

(Reuters) – British hedge fund manager Man Group on Wednesday reported a 5% increase to its assets under management in the first half of 2019, even as it saw an increased outflow of client cash. At the end of June, […]

(Hedgeweek) Hedge fund managers ended June 2019 up 1.75 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 1.89 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, reversing May’s losses of 1.19 per cent, according to figures released by Eurekhedge. To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) Founded in 2016 by industry experts Scott Feagans and Moshe Siegel, NetXpress provides colocation, data centre services, exchange and WAN connectivity globally. The NetXpress low latency architecture employs a unique ULL To read this article:

(Reuters) – Frustrated by high fees and uninspiring returns, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other big institutional investors are demanding U.S. activist hedge funds be more transparent about their investment ideas and charge less, investors and fund managers say. […]

(Bloomberg) Billionaire Jeff Talpins is hiking performance fees in his macro hedge fund to a whopping 40% even as rivals slash costs for their investors, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. To read this article:

(Bloomberg) A case brought by a U.S. hedge fund against China’s Global Cord Blood Corp. may set a precedent in the Cayman Islands for other minority shareholders who feel shortchanged by all-share mergers. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Dr Juan Alfredo Gomez, a hedge fund manager with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., combines engineering process optimisation and control concepts with quantitative finance to manage the three major risks in options trading. This arrangement allowed his […]

(HedgeWeek) Could technological advances hold the key to hedge fund managers meeting both the increased service expectations of investors, and fulfilling new regulatory requirements? To read this article:

(Opalesque) In the week ending July 26th 2019, Investors pulled $16.43bn from the hedge fund industry in June, bringing year-to-date (YTD) outflows to -$44.61bn, said eVestment. According to the June 2019 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows report, overall industry AUM […]

(Opalesque) Tortoise announced the launch of three UCITS funds: the Tortoise Energy Transition UCITS Fund, the Tortoise Sustainable Listed Infrastructure UCITS Fund and the Tortoise Sustainable Global Water UCITS Fund. To read this article:

(Opalesque) iMaps Capital Markets, a global private label provider of exchange-traded, actively managed investment vehicles, is expanding its offering with packaged retail investment products. To read this article: