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"In response to the new rates regime set by global central banks, investors have the highest hedge fund return expectations in more than 10 years and plan to grow their hedge fund portfolio in the year ahead. Credit strategies remain the most sought after in 2024, the withdrawal from China slows down and multi managers remain at the forefront of investors’ minds." #alternativeinvestments #HF #hedgefundportfolio #China #multimanager

Are we entering a new market phase? We think so. Timing inflection points in markets is a fool’s game, but central banks’ policy shift suggests the focus is now on economic slowdown and less on inflation. Read our latest edition of the quarterly Hedge Fund Outlook. https://ow.ly/iHtN50TT6fR

Are we entering a new market phase? We think so. Timing inflection points in markets is a fool’s game, but central banks’ policy shift suggests the focus is now on economic slowdown and less on inflation. In the latest edition of the quarterly Hedge Fund Outlook, we outline why we have downgraded the Credit Long/Short sector from positive to neutral. We also explain how challenges to the M&A landscape have led us to downgrade the Merger Arbitrage sector. https://ow.ly/3SSP50TNMss

A good read on how the hedging strategies in bitcoin is generating return with low risk.

#Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have responded to macro trends such as inflation and rates for some time. Now hedge funds are forming to exploit these patterns. Tom Carreras caught up with Quinn Thompson of Lekker Capital to learn more about this emerging trend in the alternative investing space... With the Federal Reserve Board now appearing to waver on its planned rate cuts this year the strategy could be more important than ever... Some top-shelf markets analysis from DL News: https://lnkd.in/eyP4P2XF

Different asset classes trade differently, and currencies are no exception. What has been historically known as a rather fragmented market has begun to change with the innovation of algorithms, the proliferation of data and how one makes sense of it as well as the need for best execution in foreign exchange. To help talk us through this evolution we are joined by Tan Phull, Head of FX Execution Trading Services for Bank of America. Alan Martin Lucero, FX Trader at Norges Bank Investment Management and Tim Cartledge, the Chief Data Officer at Tradefeedr. #LSEG #HedgeFunds #Podcast

The beginning of 2024 has generally seen a continuation of 2023 trends: declining inflation, solid economic activity, and continued strength in labor markets. However, the narrative has changed from anticipating a “mild recession” to now a “soft landing,” with little changes in the actual gross domestic product predictions. In their latest quarterly outlook, our Global Multi-Asset team discusses investment opportunities in a changing landscape of central bank policy. https://bit.ly/3TtrzCz

The beginning of 2024 has generally seen a continuation of 2023 trends: declining inflation, solid economic activity, and continued strength in labor markets. However, the narrative has changed from anticipating a “mild recession” to now a “soft landing,” with little changes in the actual gross domestic product predictions. In their latest quarterly outlook, our Global Multi-Asset team discusses investment opportunities in a changing landscape of central bank policy. https://bit.ly/3vzQmNh

For much of the past two decades, asset managers’ revenue growth has been boosted by central bank policies that have helped drive global markets. But rising interest rates in 2022 caused both stock and bond values to plummet, and the asset management industry also suffered. Global assets under management (AUM) dropped by 10% to $98 trillion, the second-largest single-year decrease since 2005. https://lnkd.in/gByie9eq

Talented traders are highly in demand and valued, however my advantages when trading on my own vs. corporate traders are very, very broad: 1: I may maintain a Drawdown at my own discretion and risk. 2: I can stay out of trading for as long as I consider necessary and remain in passive mode and focus on finding new opportunities instead of trying to break fires in times of threatening losses in the trading account. 3.: I can use the strategy that I want and the regulation allows me. 4: The results are 100% wrapped in my assets (except taxes and interest - 50% approx.) My disadvantages: 1: I don't have a human corporate backer. 2: I do not have access to the same top-level and fast information sources. 3: I do not operate with large third-party capital. (operating with your own capital can generate extraordinary stress and have a negative impact on decisions) 4.: I don't have access to expensive high-end FinTech tools 5.: I do not have access to the same high-quality training. Conclusions: Even so, I have built my trading capacity on my own over the years, I have an acceptable small capital, experience in crisis management: I have survived the 2020 pandemic, I have created my means and methods of fundamental and technical analysis and I have set up my FinTech tools. I am a small, independent, active and above all: free trader. https://lnkd.in/e784c9HX