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]
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]
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]
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]
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]