Editor's Letter

Mitigating risks

Global stock markets enjoyed a positive start to the year, with the MSCI World Index gaining 4.52% for the first three months and the...

2021 Vision

Entering 2021, the world’s problems are far from solved.  Markets have been bullish, as liquidity abounds, although not everyone is convinced of their direction. Emerging...

Alternatives can help soothe rocky markets

The search for yield has been a talking point for investors for many years – more notably in developed markets post the 2008 global...

On point, and sticking to the game plan

“At a time where the global economy is in the worst recession in living memory, global financial markets enjoyed their best quarter in 20...

Shock to the system

Q1 2020 will certainly go down in the record books. What a different world we find ourselves in, with no certainty as to how...

Mining for alpha in a variety of ways

In an environment of potentially divergent outcomes, many managers are positioning in multiple ways

Greater flexibility amidst heightened risks

While it is spring in the southern hemisphere, autumn chills are setting in across the rest of the world, and the changing environment is...

In fragile markets, can hedge funds impress?

Risk assets have had a strong first half, with stock markets globally making healthy gains to end-June, despite some volatility. Yet the macro picture...

Forging an effective identity

Knowing your competitive advantage, sticking to your investment strategy, staying on top of technological innovation and communicating with your investors – these were just...

Dark clouds persist, but the sky’s the limit

Last year tested the limits of many fund managers we talk to – from South African hedge funds and other alternative strategies to those...