Liquid Alternatives
Liquid Alternative investments have emerged over the past decade as one of the fastest-growing areas within asset management. As pensions, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors have long benefited from Alternative Investments within their portfolios, Liquid Alternatives enable investors to have access to alternative investment strategies in fund structures that provide daily liquidity, full transparency, low investment minimums and other key attributes for investors. DailyAlts is your source for the most up-to-the-minute news, commentary and analysis on the global market for Liquid Alternatives.
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Man Group (LON: EMG), one of the largest publicly traded hedge funds, has reported higher pre-tax profit in 2022, up from 2021, and raised its core net revenue by 14%. The UK-based asset manager has said that it expects more demand for liquid alternative strategies this year after delivering positive returns for investors from the strategy in 2022.
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Waratah Capital Advisors’ New Liquid Alternative Mutual Fund
The Waratah Alternative Equity Income Fund gives investors access to one of the Group’s flagship strategies and star portfolio manager Jeannine LiChong.
The Waratah Alternative Equity Fund is the firm’s first liquid alternative mutual fund. It is a long-biased, actively managed portfolio of North American equities, with a focus on Canada. The fund can use options and short positions for risk protection.
IndexIQ And Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Tie Up to Offer A Liquid Alternatives ETF Model
IndexIQ launched the IQ Alternative Allocation Model, the first liquid alternative model on its platform, in collaboration with Nasdaq Dorsey Wright.
The IQ Alternative Allocation Model provides an absolute return strategy built around IndexIQ’s suite of liquid alternative ETFs.
Schroders Launches A Private Equity Fund On Its GAIA II Liquid Alternatives Platform
Investment manager Schroders has launched a private equity fund on its GAIA II liquid alternatives platform.
The Schroder private equity fund, titled “Schroder GAIA II Specialist Private Equity fund,” will target unlisted companies with an enterprise value of up to $250 million.
Vanguard Launches Actively Managed International Fund
A new Vanguard fund has launched to add to the firm’s list of mutual funds and ETFs launched under CEO Tim Buckley. The company has unveiled the Vanguard International Core Stock Fund (VWICX). It is the fourth actively-managed product to arrive at the company this year. The three other funds launched this year are Vanguard Global ESG Select Stock Fund, Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund, and Vanguard Global Credit Bond Fund. At this pace, they might run out of managers.
Liquid Alternatives: Schroders’ GAIA Platform Launches Nuveen’s US Equity Strategies
Investors outside the US may now access Nuveen’s US equity long-short and equity market neutral strategies through Schroders.
Schroders and Nuveen have tied-up to offer two new funds on the Schroders UCITS GAIA platform.
The funds, Schroder GAIA Nuveen Equity Market Neutral and Schroder GAIA Nuveen Equity Long-Short funds focus on large-cap US equities. Further, they offer the added advantage of daily liquidity without a performance fee.
Franklin Templeton and K2 Advisors Launch Liquid Hedge Fund Strategies
The Franklin Templeton Alternatives Funds (FTAF) offers five new liquid hedge fund strategies through K2’s managed account platform.
Wasatch Global Investors Launches Two New Funds
Wasatch Global Investors has launched two new mutual funds. They are the Wasatch International Select Fund and the Wasatch Global Select Fund.
CI Liquid Alternatives Get Warm Reception from Investors and Advisors
In the space of a mere ten months, assets at CI Investments’ liquid alternative funds have exceeded $1 billion. Strategies that were earlier the domain of sophisticated hedge funds are now available to the everyday investor via a special kind of mutual fund. CI Liquid Alternative funds combine ‘alternative’ strategies with the on-tap liquidity of…
PNC Investments Creates List of Recommended Liquid Alts Funds
PNC collaborates with Morningstar on new liquid alts project PNC Investments has launched a recommended list of liquid alternative mutual funds. The broker-dealer arm of PNC Financial is creating the PNCI Liquid Alternatives Conviction list consists of 18 open-ended mutual funds. The firm’s five-person diligence team collaborated with Morningstar’s manager selection team to build the…