Opalesque Exclusive: Investors look more closely at private equity and private credit... [more]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 Market Intelligence 2024 Private Equity and Venture Capital Outlook.
The S&P Global Market Intellig
Survey: 36% of institutional investors allocate over half of portfolios to private markets... [more]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.
State Street in its third annual private markets survey, which included insights from 480 institutio
New multi-strategy hedge fund launches tumble in first quarter... [more]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 data provider Preqin, a sign that investors witnessing higher market volatility might be seeking less risky
Hedge funds retreat from oil as war risk fades... [more]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 stalled well before reaching $100 per barrel.
Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 9
New Launches: ETC Group launches bitcoin ETP for benchmark-focused long term investors... [more]From Funds Europe: ETC Group has launched a bitcoin exchange traded product (ETP) on German stock exchange Deutsche BÖrse XETRA for benchmark-focused long term investors.
With a total expense ratio of 0.30%, the ETC Group Core Bitcoin ETP tracks the institutional-grade Bitcoin price benchma
Weiss multi-strategy hedge fund files bankruptcy after shutdown... [more]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 between $10 million and $50 million in assets but owes creditors as much as $500 million, according
Jane Street's gigantic revenues per head look a lot larger than Milllennium's... [more]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 week complained that Jane Street hadn't identified the secret trading strategy which it says two of its
Investing: Hedge funds step up purchases of tech stocks, Goldman Sachs says... [more]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 saw the largest net buying since December 2022 last week by the group, driven by an increase in long p
Family offices are looking beyond the stock market for higher returns... [more]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, according to a new study.
Family offices have 46% of their total portfolio in alternative investments, w
Activists: Activist funds to push Karoon Energy on dividends... [more]From AFR: Activist fund managers Samuel Terry and Sandon Capital have teamed up to push for an overhaul of the board of $1.5 billion oil and gas producer Karoon Energy.
The investment firms disclosed on Tuesday they had created "a limited association with respect to the affairs" of Karoon in a
And, finally: The country where gold rains from the sky... [more]From UPI: It sounds like a dream, but it's true in Antarctica, gold rains from the sky. Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape.
The frozen continent features 138 volcanoes, according to a 201
Criminals continue to fleece high net-worth individuals and family offices through sophisticated scams that involve elaborate presentations, fake companies and websites, and fraudulent documents that appear credible.
We've documented three cases that describe the highly sophisticated, complex structures and cunningly designed processes which ultimately lead to straightforward investment fraud. This has
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