Selecting ESG Managers and Funds

Posted: June 7, 2020

With Environmental, Social and Governance investing gaining more popularity in the current environment, investors need to determine which managers are [Read More]
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Assets Raised/Launches: Taconic planning European distressed debt fund, Pecten launching next week, Meritech raises $800M for tech, healthcare, consumer fund

Posted: June 5, 2020

Taconic Capital Advisors is planning a third European fund specializing in distressed debt as COVID-19 continues to damage European companies’ [Read More]
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Sightings…

Posted: June 5, 2020

WorldQuant has hired Yoram Singer as its chief AI scientist, a new position. Singer, who is a professor of computer [Read More]
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Virginia Retirement allocates to Farallon, SSG while terminating Bridgewater

Posted: June 5, 2020

Virigina Retirement System, which oversees $76.9 billion in assets, allocated $300 million to Farallon Special Situations, a closed-end fund focused [Read More]
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Performance Round-Up: May is a strong month across strategies

Posted: June 4, 2020

Large hedge fund managers generally posted strong gains in May as equity markets globally gained on hopes of recovering economies [Read More]
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