eVestment's Top Hedge Funds In July 2021

eVestment's most viewed list of hedge funds in July 2021 saw Axonic Capital's Axonic Special Opportunities SBL Master Fund, LP take the top spot, a new entry. Perennial top ten inhabitant 1060 Capital Opportunity Fund, LP was second, moving up from seventh in June. Renaissance Technologies'  Renaissance Institutional Diversified Global Equities (RIDGE) Fund was third, another new entry this month.

Regionally, Axonic Special Opportunities SBL Master Fund was viewed most in U.K., 1060 Capital Opportunity Fund was viewed most in Japan, and RenTec's RIDGE was viewed most in U.S.A. Latin American eVestment subscribers clicked most on Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management's KAR Long/Short Fund, Africa/Middle East-based investors looked at Deer Park Road Management Company's STS Master Fund, Ltd., Australian eVestment users took interest in QMA Wadhwani's Keynes Dynamic Beta Strategy (Offshore) Fund, and there were ties in Asia ex-Japan between Lone Pine Capital's Lone Cypress product, Systematica Investments' Systematica Alternative Markets Fund Limited and Wolverine Asset Management's Wolverine Flagship Fund Trading Limited; in Canada between Formula Growth Ltd's Formula Growth Hedge Fund and Donville Kent Asset's DKAM Capital Ideas Fund LP; and in Europe ex-U.K. between Systematica Investments' Systematica China Markets Fund Limited and 1512 SG Capital Management's St.Gallen I Counter-Trend Program.

At the firm level, Marshall Wace received the most eyeballs, with the firm's MW Eureka Fund the London-based manager's most viewed product (the fund was fourth last month at the overall product level). Arrowmark Partners tied itself for second spot with ArrowMark Global Opportunity Fund II and ArrowMark Global Opportunity Fund IV both receiving the same number of views.

Regionally, Marshall Wace was viewed most in U.S.A, Arrowmark Partners in U.K., QMA Wadhwani in Australia, Formula Growth in Canada, UBS Asset Management in Africa/Middle East, Wellington Management Company in Europe ex-UK, Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management in Latin America and Japan saw a tie between 1060 Capital Management and  J.P. Morgan Investment Management.

Axonic Special Opportunities SBL Master Fund, LP also took the top spot in eVestment's 'Rising Interest' category - the firms, products, and universes which had the greatest absolute increase in the proportion of views they received of their alternative products from investors and consultants in the current month, versus the proportion of views they received in the prior 12 months as a whole - with Antipodes Partners Limited's Antipodes Global Fund coming in second (the product took fifth in the overall classification last month) and RenTec's RIDGE third.