Alternative
Friday 29 August 2025
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Note Starting a hedge fund in the aftermath of Lehman
The landscape has radically changed over the past four years, even though the number of launches once again started to increase in 2011. In 2007 there was a peak in the number of new hedge funds that were launched, with 1200 new funds created all over the world....
News Nomura to Invest in Private Equity Fund in China
Nomura will participate as a limited partner in the fund which is managed by Jiu You Equity Investment Management LLP, a fund management firm that invests in the high tech and biopharmaceutical industries...
Strategy Longevity Swap: Deutsche Bank to hedge Rolls-Royce Pension Fund
Deutsche Bank has entered into a longevity swap with the Trustees of the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund. Under the agreement, Deutsche Bank will hedge the longevity exposures of the scheme
Strategy Systematic managers call into question the status of core European sovereign debt as a risk-free asset
Global Macro managers explicitly follow defensive strategies: short exposure to equities (around -20%) and long exposure to the US sovereign debt. On their side, CTAs managers are more aggressive...
Interview Sidney Rostan : « The market for cats bonds is primarily a buy and hold market »
According to Sidney Rostan, structurer in the Global Structured Credit & Solutions team at Natixis, the current market environment is favorable for cats bonds due to injections of capital from institutional investors looking for diversification