Intensifying fears of a market correction mean hedge fund managers and investors are putting plans on hold. The number of both fund launches and fund searches almost halved in Q3 compared to Q2. Hedge funds may have gained a modest return of +2.14% over the 12 months to September, but the asset clas…

Private debt proves it is a source of sustainable and reliable income for investors in ongoing turbulence, outperforming both natural resources and real estate. However, Q3 saw the lowest amount of capital raised in any quarter since Q1 2018. The general consensus is that we are in the late stage of…

As geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainties intensify, the global macroeconomic outlook is increasingly uncertain. With bond yields falling, however, equities have rallied this year following a difficult Q4 2018. With these tailwinds, hedge funds have had an extremely strong start to 2019, alth…

While the overall narrative of private debt has been of strong long-term growth, in Q2 2019 the asset class is undeniably in a slump. Fundraising in the first half of the year has sunk to its lowest level since 2016, fewer and smaller funds are coming to market, performance is flat across most strat…

What a difference a quarter makes. In our Q1 2019 update, we look at how the hedge fund industry has recovered from a tough end to 2018 – the worst quarter in over a decade – by hitting the ground running in 2019. All top-level strategies made performance gains in the quarter, and yet as volatility …

Private debt has struggled to outgrow the trend of capital concentration among established fund managers – of the little fundraising activity to occur in the quarter, the majority was driven by a small number of large funds. We look at investors’ plans for the year ahead, the latest fund performance…