Albar Capital Automates Position Reconciliations with Fund Recs (Hedge Week)
Albar Capital, a London based absolute return Investment Manager, has gone live on Fund Recs Velocity platform to automate position reconciliations. Velocity is a set of cloud-based software modules that helps investment managers, global fund administrators and auditors to achieve straight through reconciliations and data processing in their middle and back offices. Rajesh Krishnan, Head of Operations at Albar Capital, says: “We are delighted to partner with Fund Recs to implement Velocity to automate our position reconciliations. Velocity has made our team more efficient by eliminating manual processes, reducing risk of errors and ensuring automation throughout our reconciliation process.”
Billionaire Cliff Asness Says that Going Through Value-Investing Hell has Only Made Him More Confident – and Shares the Advice He’d Give His Younger Self (Business Insider)
Value investors, those who seek out stocks that trade at cheaper prices than what financial analysts would expect given a company’s revenue or scale, have had a rough couple of years. But that hasn’t deterred Cliff Asness, the billionaire cofounder of AQR. On a new podcast from Newfound Research, Asness tells host Corey Hoffstein that value’s “hell” has only made him more confident in the factor — and his firm is even committing a “sin” by trying to time factors by tilting more toward value, and away from momentum, or stocks that have recently gone up.
Point72 Closing to New Money After Raising $10 Billion (Pensions&Investments)
Steven A. Cohen‘s Point72 Asset Management told clients it will close to new investments next month, after raising $10 billion since it started managing outside capital less than three years ago. Point72 was one of the biggest launches of 2018, when Mr. Cohen returned to the industry after a two-year ban from managing other people’s money. His prior firm, SAC Capital Advisors, pleaded guilty to securities fraud and paid a $1.8 billion fine. Mr. Cohen wasn’t charged with wrongdoing.
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Bridgewater Faces Losses and a Lawsuit (The Economist)
We’ve made more money for our clients than any other hedge fund in existence,” declared Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund manager, in 2017. In early 2020 Bridgewater was head and shoulders above the rest, having made $58.5bn, net of fees, for its clients since the firm’s inception in 1975. Mr Dalio is worth $17bn, making him one of the richest people in the world. He stepped back from running the firm in 2017, but it has been shaped by his deep economic analysis, and his unorthodox management style, which he calls “radical transparency”.
Hedge Funds: Boaz Weinstein’s Saba Capital Up 90% (DailyAlts.com)
Saba Projects Continuing Gains: Hedge fund industry observers are buzzing of Saba Capital Management’s purported sharp gains, in addition to the firm’s projections of seeing additional returns of this caliber in the months ahead. Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba, shares that “Markets are at an unstable place right now. I look out at the next five months, and there are lots of known unknowns.” Weinstein describes his strategy largely as identifying price dislocations in derivative securities. These securities are often implemented as a hedge against bond defaults.
Hedge Fund Manager Fails In Effort To The Renege On Charitable Deal With Ex-Wife (Deal Breaker)
Divorce isn’t known to bring out the best in people. And in some cases, it brings out the pure blind animus that animates certain Martin Lawrence movies. This seems the only possible explanation of Cooper vs. Hohn, formerly Cooper-Hohn vs. Cooper-Hohn. You see, after Jamie Cooper cured her husband Chris Hohn of being a bastard, he founded a hedge fund that pledged one-third of its management fee income to a charity dedicated to helping children, hence it’s not-at-all-creepy name: The Children’s Investment Fund. Some years back, he stopped doing this, ostensibly because it had enough money to solve all problems faced by children, although coincidental evidence suggests it had more to do with the fact that the Cooper-Hohns were going to go back to being Cooper and Hohn.
Man Group Assets Fall 8% Amid ‘Challenging Time’ (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) – British hedge fund manager Man Group (EMG.L) recorded an 8% fall in assets in the first six months of 2020 as the new coronavirus pandemic dragged down performance by $5.4 billion (4.16 billion pounds). Man Group’s total assets under management at the end of June fell to $108.3 billion from $117.7 billion on December 31. On top of performance losses, assets were hindered by negative currency movements of $2.8 billion and net outflows of $1.2 billion.
Muted Appetite for Hedge Funds (Hedge Nordic)
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Hedge funds recouped the losses incurred in February and March after a strong second quarter, but hedge fund investors are not in a hurry to commit fresh capital. About two-thirds of hedge fund mandates issued by allocators in the second quarter were for total commitments of less than $50 million, writes Preqin. There were no mandates issued for investments of $300 million or more, down from nine percent in the first quarter. “Hedge funds were buoyed by a general market bounceback in Q2, and were able to wipe out losses incurred in Q1,” Christopher Beales, Hedge Fund Spokesperson, said in a statement.
