Short sellers circle Hargreaves and beleaguered fund groups
D2C platform and Ashmore among top 10 most shorted UK stocks, while Abrdn is not far behind
Hedge Funds
-
-
Is there such a thing as a ‘good’ performance fee?
‘It should not be like winning the lottery – you want managers to outperform the following year, not think about early retirement’
-
Blackrock fund manager reportedly paid multiple times more than Larry Fink
Alister Hibbert brought in nearly half of Blackrock’s performance fees in 2020, according to Bloomberg
-
Aberdeen Standard continues passive push with hedge fund trackers
Comes as Standard Life Aberdeen CEO is shifting the asset manager towards passive products
-
Hedge funder labels Woodford a ‘disgrace’ for charging fees on suspended fund
Paul Marshall says investors should not be charged for fund managers’ failure to manage liquidity
-
Crispin Odey fund falters as hedge funds post best gains in a decade
Odey European back in negative territory after bumper 2018
-
Hedge funds short Jupiter and Schroders amid fund industry woes
Steven Cohen among the short sellers betting against the UK investment industry
-
Former Soros manager to run Schroders liquid hedge fund
Robert Donald spent four years at George Soros’s hedge fund-turned-family-office
-
Hedge funders launch robo adviser for Isa investors
Negativity around robo and investment technology a few years ago prompted former hedge fund executives Ian Cadby and Jonathan Wauton to get into the online wealth management space, culminating in the launch of platform Tiller on Monday.
-
Macro strategies lead hedge fund revival
Macro strategies were the big winners as investors poured $15.7bn (£12.2bn) new money into hedge funds in March, the best inflows in 20 months, according to eVestment data.
-
Why hedge funds have put investors into a panic
For the once-mighty hedge-fund industry, these are not the best of times – to put it mildly. Outflows are gathering pace as investors, wearying of high fees, poor performance and bad publicity, vote with their feet.
-
Nervous Sarasin ups alternatives exposure
Sarasin & Partners has been building up its holdings in alternatives for the first time in “several years” on fear of a market correction.