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Month: April 2020

BlackRock unit to increase its stake in US cybersecurity company Cofense

Cofense provides cybersecurity services to large US corporations and multiple branches of the US government

Constitution Capital Partners closes fund on $1bn

Opalesque Industry Update - Constitution Capital Partners, a leading alternative investment manager focused on North American private equity and private credit, today announced the final close of Ironsides V and related segregated mandates with total

Dutch multi-strategy CTA returns capital to investors and ceases operations

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: According to industry sources, Amsterdam-based multi-strategy CTA Independent View (IV) returns capital to investors and ceases operations. According to the alternative investment management company website, IV was founde...Article Link

AMB :- Australian private capital AUM rises to $68bn in 2019

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: In 2019, Australia's dynamic private capital industry - comprising private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources- amassed a record-high of $...Article Link

AMB :- Other Voices: Massive dislocations in the fixed income marketplace creates opportunities for top hedge funds

By: Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners The massive dislocations in the fixed income markets in March caused huge divergence in performance among hedge fund managers with similar strategies. The first quarter selloff aff...Article Link

AMB :- Dutch multi-strategy CTA returns capital to investors and ceases operations

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: According to industry sources, Amsterdam-based multi-strategy CTA Independent View (IV) returns capital to investors and ceases operations. According to the alternative investment management ...Article Link

Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 18: Asset managers that delivered in the downturn

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Amid the current market turmoil, this is our regular report on hedge fund and alternative asset managers who are bucking the trend. Digital assets arbitrage outperforms Nickel Digital Asset Management's

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The Corona Fighters Report 18: Asset managers that delivered in the downturn

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Amid the current market turmoil, this is our regular report on hedge fund and alternative asset managers who are bucking the trend. Digital assets arbitrage outperforms Nickel Digit...Article Link

Other Voices: Massive dislocations in the fixed income marketplace creates opportunities for top hedge funds

By: Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners The massive dislocations in the fixed income markets in March caused huge divergence in performance among hedge fund managers with similar strategies. The first quarter selloff affected most fixed income

Blackstone says it can’t finance €1.36bn acquisition of NIBC as bank postpones dividend

The Dutch bank decided to postpone its dividend payment earlier this month

Standards Board for Alternative Investments appoints Mario Therrien as Chairman and Luke Ellis as Deputy Chairman

Opalesque Industry Update - The Board of Trustees of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) announced today that Mario Therrien, Senior Managing Director and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Developed Markets, Caisse de depot et

Brace for a ‘Great Repression’ that will make past downturns look tame, economist says

'Base case' scenario sees 30% contraction in GDP in Q2, negative consumer price growth into 2021 and high unemployment

Tikehau hires banking veteran as head of Asia, Australia and New Zealand

Neil Parekh joins from National Australia Bank to help the firm grow its businesses in these regions

How Credit Suisse clients are financing Softbank’s Vision Fund

SoftBank-backed Greensill has brokered hundreds of millions in trade finance to four companies held by SoftBank's Vision Fund

Venture firms seek stronger deal terms as leverage shifts back to investors

Investors aim to hedge risk and gain more control of startups as capital dries up

Yanis Varoufakis: European states should appeal to self-interest not to solidarity

As the Covid-19 outbreak in Europe worsened, the leaders of nine eurozone countries proposed “coronabonds”. But while the idea is sound, it was doomed by its proponents’ justification

Morningstar publishes global study of regulation and taxation in the fund industry, finding regulation to be adequate, but not always proactive

Opalesque Industry Update - Morningstar, a provider of independent investment research, today published the second chapter of its biannual Global Investor Experience (GIE) report. The report, now in its sixth edition, assesses the experiences of

AMB :- Consonance Capital raises $856m for the second fund

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New York-based Consonance Capital (CCP) announced that its sophomore private equity fund was closed at its hard cap of $856 million. The healthcare private equity firm said that consistent wi...Article Link

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The macroeconomic drivers in hedge fund beta management – new paper

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: The extant literature has shown that hedge fund trades are affected by macroeconomic variables. However, the literature mostly focuses on the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on hedge fund pe...Article Link

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Trident Capital Management outperforms in a tough environment for systematic global macro

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Few new funds come to market with the pedigree that Chicago-based Trident Capital Management does. The Trident Futures Fund, a systematic global macro fund which launch...Article Link

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