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First Trust Advisors targets retail and institutions with Liquid Alternative...
Rob Guttschow and John Gambla are Senior Portfolio Managers of the First Trust Advisors Alternatives Team. While First Trust has a wide variety of products, including over 75 ETF products available...
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Family Office Winged Foot Capital: Focus on niche, uncorrelated strategies...
In this Opalesque Institutional Investor Series interview, moderator Michael Oliver Weinberg interviews Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, Portfolio Manager at family office Winged Foot Capital. Ram Ahluwalia prefers...
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Entrepreneur launches systematic global macro hedge fund Aimed Capital
Daniel Weston was a successful teenage IT entrepreneur before launching a career in asset management, and founding his systematic global macro hedge fund, Aimed Capital, in September 2013 with his own...
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MultStrat Re: Platform concept helps asset managers raise assets as permanent...
Bob Forness is CEO of MultiStrat Re, a Bermuda based specialist in writing reinsurance and also setting up asset managers who want to sponsor their own reinsurance companies. Mr. Forness lays out the...
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Giovanni de Francisci: The "unconventional" hedge fund investor
Giovanni de Francisci is the portfolio manager of the Petschek Family office in Monaco, and in many ways an unconventional hedge fund investor. This Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE video is a rare document on...
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Benjamin Ball: Excellence at pitching vs. Excellence at investing
Benjamin Ball Associates coaches teams and business leaders to ensure their investor presentations, their pitches and their talks get results - in short, to better pitch, present and persuade. In this...
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Justin Kendrick: Growth, performance, diversification: The greater...
Justin Kendrick has 26 year of experience in Asian markets, initially broking Asia out of London, before moving to Hong Kong and Singapore. He founded Binjai Hill in 2004 as a specialist fund manager...
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Marc de Kloe: How you can help private banks to better sell alternatives
Marc de Kloe is Head of Alternatives Investments and Funds at ABN Amro Private Banking where he is responsible for funds and alternative investments including long only, hedge funds, private equity...
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Jeroen Tielman: Platforms become the evolved seeding model
As founder of the IMQubator seeding fund, Jeroen Tielman has seen the industry change and new models develop over the last five years. On the investor side, traditional benchmarks are being replaced by...
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Saemor Capital: one of the largest and most successful European...
Saemors European Alpha Fund is a quantitative equity market neutral hedge fund with a beta of -0.2 to +0.2 and volatility of 8 to 10%. The fund has returned almost 10% net annualised for the past five...
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With 19 women now heading central banks, Women in Sovereign Entities org...
Sefi Shliselberg is the Founder of nonprofit organization Women in Sovereign Entities, or WSE. The association recognizes the leading role of sovereign women in the capital markets, provides a forum...
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Three Arrows Capital: Fast growing emerging markets hedge fund
Kyle Davies is co-founder and chairman at Three Arrows Capital, a Singapore-based hedge fund management company specialising in emerging markets. The fast growing fund was set up in May 2012 with the...
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Francois Dotta: Trade finance generates consistent and uncorrelated returns...
EuroFin Asia Group is a global, independent merchant banking organization headquartered in Singapore that capitalizes on acute market expertise and strong network in real economy to offer a diverse...
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What attracted Ascalon/Westpac to seed Morphic and its adaptive global equity...
In August 2014, Ascalon Capital Managers, the boutique asset manager investment arm of BT Financial Group (a wholly owned subsidiary of Westpac Banking Corporation), acquired a 35% minority stake in...
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Shining light on the shadow banking business... Private credit and...
Barry Lau, a former lawyer at Clifford Chance London turned banker, co-founded HK based hedge fund Adamas Asset Management (HK) Limited in 2009. He serves as Managing Partner & CIO of the...
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Former MIT physicist behind Blackheath Volatility Arbitrage Strategy and Risk...
Blackheath Fund Management Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager Dr. Andrew Cumming is a former MIT-trained physicist who transitioned to money management in the capital markets, focusing on...
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Up 90% in 2014: Adam Tomas, a different systematic long term trend follower...
Australian Adam Tomas started to design systematic trading strategies in 2004. In July 2011 he launched his Global Capital Allocation Fund (GCAF). While many CTAs did well in 2014, Tomas' strategy did...
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Hollard Stable Fund: No down year since 2003 launch, CAGR of 16.0%
Capricorn Fund Managers is part of the Capricorn Group, was born out of the Hollard Insurance Group which is the largest unlisted insurer in South Africa. Capricorn has offices in Johannesburg and...
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Cybersecurity threats facing hedge funds in 2015
The Great Online Bank Robbery of the Carbanak Cyber Gang stealing $1 billion from 100 banks worldwide marks the beginning of a new stage in the evolution of cybercriminal activity, where malicious...
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Swan Re targets 20% ROE using reinsurance premium float
Randy Swan is Founder of Swan Wealth Advisors, an SEC-registered RIA that has used their low-risk Defined Risk Strategy (DRS) to generate +9% annualized returns for investors since 1997. The structured...
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