Notes from the both days of the SALT Conference which took place on the 8th and 9th of May 2019. Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Smarter Alternatives: How Responsible Investing Drives Long-term Performance Jose Minaya - Chief Investment Officer & President, Nuveen Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild - Chief Executive Officer,...
Man Group Machine Intelligence (MI) is a new class of computing workload of sufficient importance to rethink computing from top to bottom. This is the beginning of the real age of massively parallel computing, combined with a new dominant data class -- high-dimensional probability distributions. This talk will discuss how...
For Li Yifei, Man Group’s Chinese chair, the announcement that the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund can now conduct business in China might seem like a complete turnaround. It was a little over two years ago when she was taken into custody by Chinese authorities over market manipulation...
Oh, how the world must have looked on May 16. The S&P 500 peaked its head above 2400, breaking into all-time highs, all the while geopolitical issues around the world didn’t seem to matter to investors as US market volatility, measured by the CBOE VIX index, played dead. To...
The Southern California region is known to be one of several hotbeds for alternative investing thought. That reputation might have been cemented just a little further when PIMCO, formerly the world’s leading bond fund manager, lured Emmanuel “Manny” Roman away from his perch as CEO at London-based Man Group....
The Southern California region is known to be one of several hotbeds for alternative investing thought. That reputation might have been cemented just a little further when PIMCO, formerly the world’s leading bond fund manager, lured Emmanuel “Manny” Roman away from his perch as CEO at London-based Man Group....
Lately, the news out of China has a bit of "The Onion" feel to it - between arresting short-sellers, encouraging farmers to leverage their savings and "invest" in the stock market, and more, but this one takes the crown. The China head of Man Group reemerged from a mysterious week-long...
Lately, the news out of China has a bit of "The Onion" feel to it - between arresting short-sellers, encouraging farmers to leverage their savings and "invest" in the stock market, and more, but this one takes the crown. The China head of Man Group reemerged from a mysterious week-long...
Chinese authorities have "taken into custody" Li Yifei, chairwoman of British hedge fund manager Man Group Plc's China unit, a move that came as a shock to some in the algorithmic trading community. But while the headlines were, themselves, arresting, underneath the surface lies the real story. LI is being...
Managed futures hedge fund pioneer Man Group saw its stock oddly skyrocket ten percent in value today. Taking the title of best performer on the European index one day after a string of five losing days is typically subject to some inspection, often times triggering algorithmic alerts. Man Group volatility...
The world's largest publicly traded quantitative firm says the trend towards quant investment methods will persist
Considered one of the "founding firms" in commodity trading and managed futures, Man Group diversifies strategies further following difficult times for trend following Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund, is further moving away from its managed futures, quantitative investing roots and diversifying its strategy set through the...
Man Group PLC (LON:EMG) (OTCMKTS:MNGPF) is a world renowned hedge fund with $72.3 billion assets under management, which is based in the UK, as the largest publically traded hedge fund. The company has announced they have entered into an agreement with Silvermine Capital, a US leveraged loan management company, for...
The rising short interest in oil companies implies that the worst for oil is yet to come. Data from Markit shows that short exposure in energy sector of S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) is still looming close to the highest mark of the year. On Tuesday, shorts accounted for 3.25% of shares...
The largest publicly traded hedge fund manager, the systematically-orientated Man Group PLC (LON:EMG), is purchasing a fund of funds hedge fund from Merrill Lynch Alternative Investments with the goal to expand its U.S. offerings. Man Group's stock price up 76% After seeing its stock price rise 76 percent after going on...
Rebalancing a stock and bond portfolio after the relative values of each investment have diverged seems logical, but this investment strategy can prove unprofitable if the mathematical concept of mean reversion does not take hold in the markets, says a study from Man Group / AHL Man, one of the...
Rebalancing Risk Nicolas M Granger Man Group Douglas Greenig Independent Campbell R. Harvey Duke University - Fuqua School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Sandy Rattray AHL / Man Systematic Strategies David Zou Man Group plc - AHL Man Systematic Strategies Abstract: While a routinely rebalanced portfolio such as a 60-40 equity-bond mix is commonly...
Man Group PLC (OTCMKTS:MNGPF) (LON:EMG), one of the world’s largest hedge funds that made famous as an early pioneer in managed futures trend following, is in talks to acquire the long only investment boutique of Numeric Holdings. Man would acquire new strategies and investor, marketing benefits Boston-based Numeric is an institutional...
Managed futures trend follower MAN GROUP PLC (OTCMKTS:MNGPF), one of the world’s largest hedge funds, reported performance that beat estimates. “At 7.9c (per share), the dividend will be ahead of most expectations we believe, while the company has announced its intention to repurchase $115m of its shares,” a JPMorgan Chase...
One of the world’s largest hedge fund operators, MAN GROUP PLC (LON:EMG) (OTCMKTS:MNGPF), has been sued for 20 million pounds ($33 million) over claims that their advice went bad in a “complex” over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trade. Man Group advised Richard Desmond on investment MAN GROUP PLC (LON:EMG) (OTCMKTS:MNGPF)’s GLG Partners subsidiary...
Brevan Howard is now the largest hedge fund manager in Europe, surpassing Man Group PLC (LON:EMG) (OTCMKTS:MNGPF) which was last year’s biggest manager and is this year’s number two, with $40 billion total assets under management according to a report from The Hedge Fund Journal listing the 50 largest...
Odey Asset Management continues to show faith in fellow hedge fund Man Group plc. The fund increased its long position in Man Group from 5.15 to 6.07 percent of Man Group's outstanding shares on Thursday, Reuters reports. Odey's bullish bet on Man Group is not shared by other competing UK...
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