(Bloomberg) Do poker players make good hedge fund managers? On one hand, there’s skill overlap. Both activities demand aggressiveness, accurate calculations under pressure, keen behavioral insight and shrewd risk-taking. On the other hand, poker seems like a risk-seeking activity, suggesting […]

(Opalesque) Could the Greater Bay area around Hong Kong become a new innovation district for China? Professor Graham Leach, Operating Partner at the Hong Kong Emerging Technologies Venture Fund, says it’s possible thanks to the completion of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau […]

(Opalesque) The Situation: ICOs and digital assets have become a new phenomenon that has impacted many aspects of our modern economies and created an alternative way of financing for start-ups or small and medium-sized enterprises. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with $37 billion of assets under management, announced today it has successfully completed fundraising for its inaugural Private Credit program with approximately $1.1 billion of capital available to deploy, including […]

(Hedgeweek) The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index increased to 79.5 in May, up 6.6 points from April’s revised reading of 72.9. To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) Digital transformation: Science, not fiction – Science fiction is a beloved and enduring genre largely because of technology’s transformative potential. The best examples leverage this to the hilt and extract as much dramatic tension as possible from the situation. […]

(Bloomberg) Anyone looking for evidence that the China-U.S. trade war has chilled investors on Asia’s largest economy need go no further than the picks from some of the world’s top hedge fund managers at this year’s Hong Kong Sohn Conference. […]

(hedgeweek) Hedge fund managers ended April 2019 up 1.05 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 1.00 per cent on an asset-weighted basis. Roughly 70.6 per cent of the hedge fund managers tracked by Eurekahedge recorded positive returns over the […]

(Opalesque) – Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with $37 billion of assets under management, announced today it has successfully completed fundraising for its inaugural Private Credit program with approximately $1.1 billion of capital available to deploy, […]

(Opalesque) Alpha Vertex, a financial technology company, sees untapped opportunity in advanced natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning tools to extract information – such as investment signals – from unstructured, text-based datasets with broad coverage. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Environmental, social and governance (ESG)/ Socially responsible investing (SRI) appear to be gaining in influence for Latin American equities investors in tune with global trends. More investors are placing value on various facets of ESG/SRI investing and many investors […]

(Reuters) Hedge funds see honey in Japan’s value traps. Companies from the Land of the Rising Sun dominated pitches at Hong Kong’s Sohn Conference on Thursday. They pointed to signs of unjustified panic in the country’s equities slump, creating opportunities […]