Tag Archives: transparency
Private Credit Faces Billions in Withdrawals: The Alternative Lending Boom Meets Its First Real Stress Test:
(HedgeCo.Net) For more than a decade, private credit has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the alternative investment universe. Fueled by bank retrenchment, post-crisis regulation, and an extended era of low interest rates, private lenders stepped into the void—providing flexible capital […]
Private Credit’s 2026 Opening Bell: Bigger Funds, Insurer Partnerships, and a New Scrutiny Cycle
(HedgeCo.Net) Private credit is starting 2026 the way it ended 2025: with scale—and with a growing spotlight on what that scale means for returns, liquidity, and risk. Over the past 48 hours, two developments have crystallized the story investors are watching […]
The SMA Gold Rush: Custom Accounts Reshape Hedge Fund Allocations
Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) have moved from niche to mainstream.Allocators prize transparency and liquidity, fueling SMA demand.Hedge funds use SMAs to attract top portfolio manager talent.SMA infrastructure continues to scale across major platforms. (HedgeCo.Net) Across the hedge fund ecosystem, one […]
Hedge Funds Hit New Heights: Industry Assets Surge Past $5 Trillion
(HedgeCo.Net) The global hedge fund industry has crossed a historic threshold. Assets under management (AuM) have officially climbed past $5 trillion, marking a new all-time high and underscoring a powerful resurgence for an industry that spent much of the last decade […]
Salus Alpha’s perspective on UCITS III Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Salus Alpha issued a statement regarding the reinvention of the hedge fund sector since last year’s crisis. “UCITS Hedge Funds” are known as a new and innovative concept, but the strategy actually goes back to 2002 […]
Wealthy Investors Still Like Hedge Funds But Are More Discerning
FP – “We see continued dedication to hedge funds,” Catherine Keating, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase’s private bank, told Reuters. “The things our clients are focused on are how does that hedge fund generate its returns? How much is […]
Cogent Consulting Releases Free Broker Review System for Hedge Funds
Press Release – Cogent Consulting LLC today announced a free version of its HedgeTrak web-based broker review and evaluation service for hedge funds. HedgeTrak Lite enables hedge funds to properly value trading and research services provided by their brokerage firms, […]
Transparency the key word among hedge fund heads
Canada.com – Holding a hedge fund conference at a casino may not be the best optics for an industry that was cast as one of the free-wheeling gamblers of the financial crisis, but players in the fledgling Canadian sector meeting […]
Hedge fund replication index offers exposure to alternatives
Investment News – Seizing on an anticipated increase in demand for alternative investments, a Greenwich, Conn.-based firm has rolled out an investible hedge-fund-tracking index that offers liquidity and transparency. TrueBeta LLC’s index is designed to replicate the performance of the […]
What Investors Want from Hedge Funds Now
BusinessWeek – After contributing their fair share to the more than $1 trillion in estimated global financial industry losses in this credit crunch, hedge funds appear to be on the mend. However, the alternative investment vehicles known for returns that […]
HedgeSphere Funds of Hedge Funds Software Release
West Palm beach (HedgeCo.net) – Swiss funds of hedge funds (FoHF) tech. provider Infonic AG, released the latest version of its software suite for FoHFs, HedgeSphere 4.3. “For many funds of hedge funds, including those with complex portfolio structures, management […]
Harvard seeks to manage more money internally: report
Reuters – Harvard University’s multibillion dollar endowment is adopting a strategy of selling off some holdings in hedge funds, private-equity firms and other money managers to bring more money under the control of internal investing staff over the next few […]