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In a recent interview with Hedgeweek, Jack Inglis, the CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, discussed hedge funds’ response to the assortment of operational obstacles arising from the coronavirus-imposed lockdown, how virtual conferencing has reshaped manager-investor relationships, and what the future holds for the industry’s traditional Mayfair nerve-centre following months of remote working. Paulson joins the ‘going private’ trend as hedge fund industry’s changing of the guard accelerates The news that John Paulson, the executor of ‘The Greatest Trade Ever’, is joining the growing ranks of famed hedge fund managers returning investor capital and going private, seems like a defining moment at a time when the world as we knew it is experiencing such widespread, seismic change. A thick broth of global regulation is putting added pressure on investment managers to institutionalise their compliance programmes. Chanos warned investors of a speculative leg-up back in November Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and one of the industry’s higher profile short-sellers, said that the evidence was almost irrefutable late last year that something was wrong with Wirecard.  The “locusts” were the canaries in the coal mine (again): Hedge fund short-sellers vindicated as Wirecard blow-up jolts Germany There is precious little to celebrate in the precipitous collapse of Wirecard, the German payments group whose shares have lost 90 per cent in a matter of days amid what now appears to be incontrovertible evidence of a massive and sustained fraud involving at least EUR2 billion of ‘missing’ cash. A contrarian perspective: Q A with Edouard Laurent-Bellue, partner and head of fund solutions at LFIS With long-term volatility likely to remain at elevated levels, the LFIS Vision UCITS – Perspective Fund is primed to capitalise on opportunities in rangy equity markets. Oil hedge fund Westbeck bullish on further energy price recovery after volatile markets sends returns soaring Westbeck Capital Management, the London-based long/short energy specialist hedge fund, is positioning for a continued recovery in oil and oil equities after making bumper returns amid frenzied markets during the first six months of the year. “A waiting game”: Why veteran volatility hedge fund 36 South embraces uncertainty The current market uncertainty and value discrepancy offers the biggest opportunity in volatility-based trading in a generation, according to Jerry Haworth (pictured), the chief investment officer of London-based 36 South Capital Advisors, who is preparing a new fund to capitalise on further volatility shocks up ahead. Lessons learned: How luck, as well as skill, drove CTAs’ performance during the historic coronavirus sell-off Managed futures strategies experienced an entire year’s worth of performance dispersion during a dramatic first three months of 2020, with trend-following hedge funds’ returns hinging as much on luck as skill, a new deep-dive analysis by multi-manager CTA portfolio investment firm Efficient Capital Management shows. Energy hedge fund CF Partners predicts higher commodity price moves following oil rally CF Partners Capital Management, a London-based energy-focused hedge fund, is betting on a continued price recovery in energy markets heading into the second half of 2020. Healthcare hedge fund Rhenman eyes further gains after second double-digit return Rhenman Partners Asset Management, a Stockholm-based sector-specialist hedge fund firm, says 2020 is poised to be “a good year” for its flagship healthcare strategy, after it posted a double-digit return for the second month in a row. Special situation and activist hedge funds reluctant to pile into recovery amid “anaemic” corporate activity  Activist hedge funds and certain other special situations strategies are still holding off from piling into longer-term buy-and-hold stocks amid the continued market uncertainty, instead choosing to trade opportunistically around cyclical names recovering from their coronavirus battering. Man-Machine: German AI quant hedge fund Quantumrock surges in 2020 with volatility-based strategy Quantumrock, the German volatility-focused quantitative hedge fund manager, is on a roll this year, its flagship fund’s performance surging into double-digit territory with an equity futures-and-treasuries model built around AI trading throughout the market cycle. Axiom targets credit market dislocation with new long/short hedge fund launch Axiom Alternative Investments, the USD1.7 billion French investment manager, has launched its first global long/short credit fund in a UCITS format, which aims to capitalise on investment opportunities arising out of credit dislocations following the coronavirus pandemic. Wirecard short-sellers showed “bravery and belief”, as hedge funds vindicated by scandal-hit firm’s demise, says AIMA CEO Inglis Hedge funds that bet against Wirecard, the German e-payments firm which last week collapsed amid an apparent widespread EUR1.9 billion fraud, showed “bravery and belief” and their actions have ultimately been vindicated, according to Jack Inglis, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association. Hedge fund liquidations outpace launches in 2020, as fees fall to record lows New hedge fund launches have slumped to lows not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis, while liquidations hit their highest level since the end of 2015, according to new analysis from Hedge Fund Research. Intu short bets set to pay off for hedge funds as debt-laden retail operator calls in administrators A number of hedge fund short-sellers look set to gain from troubled shopping centre operator Intu Properties’ fall from grace, with shares in the London-based real estate investment trust sliding again on Friday (26 June) following news that the debt-laden firm is due to enter administration. Short-sellers increase bets against Wirecard as hedge funds eye bigger pay-off from crisis-hit company’s demise Hedge funds are holding off from closing their short positions in crisis-hit e-payments firm Wirecard AG - with some even increasing their bets – in expectation that its share price will tumble yet again, boosting short sellers’ returns even further. Hedge funds face sweeping changes to remote working and office space, as firms review footprint Most US hedge funds and other alternative managers expect to return to work before year-end, but a majority predict sweeping changes to work-from-home policies and office layouts, with close to a third of New York-based managers mulling a reduction in office space, a deep-dive industry study by Seward Kissel has found. Tide may be turning for market neutral hedge funds Equity market neutral hedge fund strategies could be set for a reversal of fortunes, as trading conditions normalise towards 2020’s midway point.  Chanos warned investors of a speculative leg-up back in November Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and one of the industry’s higher profile short-sellers, said that the evidence was almost irrefutable late last year that something was wrong with Wirecard.  The “locusts” were the canaries in the coal mine (again): Hedge fund short-sellers vindicated as Wirecard blow-up jolts Germany There is precious little to celebrate in the precipitous collapse of Wirecard, the German payments group whose shares have lost 90 per cent in a matter of days amid what now appears to be incontrovertible evidence of a massive and sustained fraud involving at least EUR2 billion of ‘missing’ cash.

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