Investors are looking differently at hedge funds. Only 7 per cent plan increased allocations over the next three years, according to a survey of the global alternative fund industry by EY.
Dallas-based hybrid social enterprise Good Returns and Inverdale Capital Management have launched Guarantee-Investment-Values Strategies (GIVS), which takes into account an impact weighting and provides guarantee capacity for impact lending programmes.
Assets invested in active exchange traded funds (ETFs) and exchange traded products (ETPs) listed globally increased by 57.3 per cent in 2017 to reach $75.20bn of assets under management (AUM).
Investor interest in strategies that can hedge against any sell-off in risk assets is growing, according to GAM Alternative Investment Strategies (AIS) investment committee’s 2018 hedge fund outlook.