Opalesque - Alternative Market Briefing

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Bob Neighoff, portfolio manager of the Cicero CMBS strategy, a $300m fixed-income strategy focused on seasoned CMBS and CRE (corporate real estate) capital market opportu...

https://www.opalesque.com/702868/Commercial_real_estate_is_one_of_the_pillars286.html

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: While there has been a slowdown in fundraising and distributions, investors are still interested private equity and private credit according to the S P Global M...

https://www.opalesque.com/702866/Investors_look_more_closely_at_private_equity_and286.html

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Despite macroeconomic challenges, institutional investors are poised to increase their stakes in private markets significantly over the coming years, said a survey. St...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702867/Survey_of_institutional_investors_allocate_over_half286.html

From Reuters: New multi-strategy hedge fund launches accounted for less than one in 10 of new funds in the first quarter, down from about one in four in the last quarter of 2023, according to dat...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702869/New_hedge_fund_launches_tumble_in_first286.html

Hong Kong hedge fund ActusRay more than doubles assets From Reuters: Hong Kong-based ActusRay Partners, a hedge fund backed by the city's investment giant Sun Hung Kai Co 0086.HK, has more than d...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702870/Hong_Kong_hedge_fund_ActusRay_more_than_doubles287.html

From Reuters: Investors sold oil at the fastest rate for more than six months amid signs that Israel and Iran have chosen not to escalate their conflict, ensuring the rally in crude prices stalle...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702871/Hedge_funds_retreat_from_oil_as_war_risk287.html

From Funds Europe: ETC Group has launched a bitcoin exchange traded product (ETP) on German stock exchange Deutsche B Ouml;rse XETRA for benchmark-focused long term investors. With a total expens...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702872/New_Launches_ETC_Group_launches_bitcoin_ETP_for287.html

From Bloomberg: Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC filed for bankruptcy about two months after the New York-based investment management firm announced it was winding down operations. The firm has ...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702873/Weiss_hedge_fund_files_bankruptcy_after_shutdown287.html

From eFinancial Careers: Millennium, the world's largest multistrategy hedge fund, has a good lawyer. Andrew Levander, a New York partner specializing in white collar litigation at Decherts, last...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702874/Jane_gigantic_revenues_per_head_look_a287.html

Merced County Employees cuts hedge fund target, ups fixed income From PIonline.com: Merced County (Calif.) Employees' Retirement Association cut its exposure to hedge funds in half and raised its...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702875/Institutional_Investors_Merced_County_Employees_cuts_hedge_fund287.html

From Bloomberg: The risk-on momentum in technology stocks last week wasn't lost on hedge funds, who scooped up the sector's companies at the fastest clip in more than a year. Technology stocks sa...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702876/Investing_Hedge_funds_step_up_purchases_of_tech287.html

Hedge fund Qube hires ex-Carlson merger arbitrage specialist From Bloomberg: Qube Research Technologieshired former Carlson Capital senior analyst Bruno Burki as a portfolio manager focused on me...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702877/People_Hedge_fund_Qube_hires_merger_arbitrage287.html

Institutional investors looking to crypto as 'debasement hedge' amid rising US national debt From Daily Hodl: Big Four accounting firm KPMG says that investors are warming up to crypto as a way t...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702878/Crypto_Institutional_investors_looking_to_crypto_as287.html

From CNBC: Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund says it will continue to advocate for investments based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. It comes at a time when miss...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702879/SWF_largest_sovereign_wealth_fund_says_green287.html

How Wall Street is adopting AI From Business Insider: Generative AI has had Wall Street abuzz since the introduction of Open AI's ChatGPT in late 2022. Business Insider has been reporting on how ...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702880/Tech_How_Wall_Street_is_adopting_AI_AI288.html

European investors pour money into defence ETFs From FT: European investors appear to have overcome a traditional reluctance to invest in the defence sector and are pumping money into locally dom...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702881/Europe_European_investors_pour_money_into_defence_ETFs288.html

Chinese alts managers launch group to court foreign capital From Asian Investor: A newly established association in Hong Kong plans to help Chinese alternatives managers raise capital offshore, d...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702882/Asia_Chinese_alts_managers_launch_group_to_court288.html

Private credit fundraising pace slows in Q1 on interest rate concerns From PIonline.com: The pace of private credit fundraising slowed during the first quarter of 2024, with global economic uncer...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702883/Study_Private_credit_fundraising_pace_slows_in_Q1288.html

Private equity fund closings plunge in Q1 as industry continues to consolidate From PIonline.com: Only 150 private equity funds closed in the first quarter of 2024 - the lowest such figure record...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702884/PEVC_Private_equity_fund_closings_plunge_in_Q1288.html

From CNBC: Large family offices have nearly half their investments in private markets and alternatives, as they move out of the stock market in search of higher returns and lower volatility, acco...

https://www.opalesque.com/fullarticle/702885/Family_offices_are_looking_beyond_the_stock_market288.html