20 Apr 2012
Central banks have been so supportive and there has been a real tailwind behind risk assets. But there is plenty of potential for shocks
20 Apr 2012
Former Moore Capital and Morgan Stanley team have a strong multi-year record of managing risk and generating returns in all market conditions with their liquid and scalable macro strategy run from Zug and London
20 Apr 2012
Ex-Kazimir co-founder Dimitri Kryukov’s Verno Russia fund is shaping up well, with good Q1 performance and a positive outlook for equities
20 Apr 2012
Backed by a diverse team of nine portfolio managers, Patrice Moyal’s well-established Visio Capital firm is a leader among South African hedge funds — and is increasingly profiting from the wider African growth story, with a growing focus on investing into other countries on the continent as well
20 Apr 2012
Ex-Lansdowne man George Michelakis has delivered strong numbers over six years with his Lasker fund – boosted by a portfolio construction overhaul that helped to drive a 20% return in 2011
26 Mar 2012
Man Group CEO Peter Clarke believes the acquisition of GLG has given rise to a uniquely balanced and scalable alternative investment business that spans a growing range of liquid systematic and discretionary strategies, that can access all types of investors around the world and that should be able to deliver uncorrelated return streams in most market environments. But a strong performance in 2012 would help to convince sceptics after a tough year in 2011. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with EuroHedge, Clarke talks about strategy, synergy, culture, growth, markets, new products, regulation, acquisitions and much more besides
26 Mar 2012
For more than a decade Charlemagne Capital’s OCCO Eastern European fund has been one of the star performers in the often-volatile emerging market equity space – managing to capture most of the upside while minimising exposure to the downside risks to which emerging market equities have been so vulnerable
26 Mar 2012
The event-driven specialist is making good returns with a strategy that is focused on liquid investments and soft-catalyst plays in Europe, Asia and the emerging markets
26 Mar 2012
Twelve months after absorbing Gartmore, the combined Henderson/AlphaGen hedge fund group is flourishing in terms of manager morale, investor inflows and new growth opportunities
26 Mar 2012
GLG’s experienced TMT sector specialists, Philip Pearson and Anthony Burton, are pursuing a quasi-market neutral approach to exploit twin themes of creation and destruction throughout the technology world in a new phase of rapid innovation and virtual revolution driven by the smartphone and the tablet
27 Feb 2012
Former Cheyne special situations manager Massi Khadjenouri and her new partners have racked up strong numbers in a poor period for event-driven strategies with their KL Special Opportunities fund
27 Feb 2012
For many hedge funds, equity market volatility has been a curse of late. For Amundi’s equity volatility funds, it is the raison d’être of the manager’s whole strategy
27 Feb 2012
Experienced macro strategist Tim Bond is off to a strong start with Odey’s new equities-focused macro strategy