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MENA Hedge Funds Poised To Resume Upward Trend?

29 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Ludovica Brignola

The first sign that corroborates the position of the MENA bulls’ vision of a coming outbreak of opportunity for alternative funds in the region comes from the recent advances around shorting rules

Profile: Euklid

29 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Ludovica Brignola

Named after the Greek mathematician known as the ‘father of geometry’, Euklid is a new systematic, equity hedge fund based in London

Determining the Optimal Size for a Hedge Fund

29 January 2019 Public Frank Caccio

Study after study has exposed a consistent—and persistent—issue: as hedge funds grow in assets under management, alpha goes down

AIFMD Premarketing: The 18 Month Rule

24 January 2019 Public Attilio Veneziano

There is still some time before the proposed directive will be enacted - if it ever will be - and it will be very interesting to see what type of practice will develop surrounding the newly proposed ‘18 months rule’

AlphaWeek Q&A: Tyra Jeffries, CreativeCap Advisors

24 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Greg Winterton

AlphaWeek's latest Q&A sees Tyra Jeffries discuss her firm's incubator approach to capital raising for hedge funds

2019: Return of the Trend?

9 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Ludovica Brignola

The question ‘are trend following strategies dead?’ has, justifiably, been asked on numerous occasions by many commentators in the last decade

Crypto Futures To Break Out in 2019?

9 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Ludovica Brignola

2019 promises new developments – both product and infrastructure related - to further increase the options available to US institutional traders

Profile: Orthogonal Asset Management

8 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Greg Winterton

Profile: Orthogonal Asset Management

Profile: Commodity Asset Management

8 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Greg Winterton

Profile: Commodity Asset Management

Volatility in Transition

7 January 2019 Public Timothy Jacobson, CFA | Lawson Stringer

Are we transitioning from a prolonged low-volatility to a prolonged high-volatility regime?

AlphaWeek Q&A: Rishab Sharma, aiSource

7 January 2019 AlphaWeek Basic Greg Winterton

Q&A: Rishab Sharma, aiSource

Magnelibra 2019 Outlook

7 January 2019 Public Mike Agne

Magnelibra 2019 Outlook

A Fall To Forget and a December To Remember?

11 December 2018 Public Jim Neumann

The Fall of 2018 was setting up for hedge funds to put up solid numbers and thus reclaim their higher fee throne. Some advisers, like Sussex, had been advocating for inclusion of strategies non-correlated to equity market direction