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NEWSLETTER | 10 Jan 2020  
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Absolute Return Partners raises US recession fears despite trade war truce

 – Founder and CIO Niels Clemen Jensen flags up potential liquidity squeeze –

ARP founder and chief investment officer Niels Clemen Jensen is flagging up the risk of a US recession amidst a potential liquidity squeeze among lower-quality US corporates.

 
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Emerging market hedge funds close turbulent decade with strong gains
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
HFRI’s EM Index up 11.67 per cent in 2019, as market conditions hint at positive start to new year Emerging markets-focused hedge funds rounded off a strong year with a 3.58 per cent monthly advance in December, to take their composite returns for 2019 to almost 12 per cent, new performance data from HFR shows.
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How to prepare for a successful hedge fund launch – Step 1: Define your business
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
In this new monthly blog, Joel Press, formerly a senior partner and Head of the Global Hedge Fund Practice at Ernst & Young, and a leading voice on hedge fund operations and co-ordination services, talks through an array of considerations on how best to prepare for a successful hedge fund launch. In this first installment, Press, who works on a discretionary basis with a handful of start-ups each year through his consulting arm, Press Management LLC in New York, discusses the key business planning issues, including access to capital…
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Top hedge fund industry trends for 2020
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Each year, Agecroft Partners predicts the top hedge fund industry trends through their contact with more than 2,000 institutional investors and hundreds of hedge fund organisations. The hedge fund industry is dynamic and both managers and investors can benefit from anticipating, and preparing for, the changes likely to occur. Firms that can effectively evolve with the industry improve their chances of success while stagnant firms do so at their own peril. Below are Agecroft’s predictions for the biggest trends in the hedge fund industry for 2020…
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Hedge funds industry up 9.74 per cent in 2019
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
The global hedge fund industry returned +1.75 per cent in December, bringing aggregate 2019 full-year returns to +9.74 per cent, according to eVestment’s December 2019 hedge fund performance data. 
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CTAs close best year since 2014 as trend followers lead performance in 2019
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
Following positive gains in November, CTAs experienced a small dip in December, as the SG CTA Index closed the month at -0.65 per cent. Nevertheless, all indices closed the year in positive territory with the SG CTA Index and the Short-Term Traders Index up by +6.24 per cent and +3.62 per cent YTD respectively.
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Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index up 0.66 per cent in December
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.66 oper cent in December, underperforming the 1.22 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. 
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LiquidityBook adds two to EMEA Client Service Team
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has made two London-based hires for its EMEA Client Service Team: James Pearson and Abdullah Al Nasiri. 
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PWP Capital Management appoints Partner
Fri | 10 Jan 2020, 11:43
Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP) Capital Management has elected Amita Schultes a Partner of the firm, effective 1 January, 2020. 
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