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Launches of liquid alts funds tripled from 2009 to 2013. [2]Major drivers for the growth in liquid alternative funds include: "The 2008 crisis has fundamentally changed investors’ priorities from a main emphasis on investment returns and alpha generation to an emphasis on diversification and downside protection (or principal preservation), especially in the case of a steep market downdraft" [3]
Liquid alternatives became popular in the late 2000s, growing from $124 billion in assets under management 2010 to $310 billion in 2014. [26] However, in 2015 only $85 million was added, with 31 closed funds and a high-profile underperformance by the largest long-short equity fund at the time, Marketfield Fund.
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk. Among these portfolio techniques are short selling and the use of leverage and derivative instruments. [1]
The firm offers strategies through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, an exchange traded fund and UCITS funds. Clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them.
Salient Partners was a private equity firm based in Houston, Texas, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Newport Beach.The firm's strategies included emerging markets, [1] real estate investment trusts (REITs), master limited partnership (MLPs) investments, [2] managed futures, [3] risk parity funds, [4] and liquid alternative investments. [5]
The company's name 'SAC Capital' derived from Steven A Cohen's initials. [9] The company started trading with $25 million in 1992, grew its assets under management to $16 billion, and became the world's highest-returning hedge fund: SAC averaged annual returns of 30% net of fees under a 3% management fee and 50% performance fee from 1992 to 2013.
Millennium Management is an investment management firm with a multistrategy hedge fund offering. [9] It is one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms with over $70.2 billion assets under management as of October 2024. [10] [11] The firm operates in America, Europe and Asia. [12]
A money market fund (also called a money market mutual fund) is an open-end mutual fund that invests in short-term debt securities such as US Treasury bills and commercial paper. [1] Money market funds are managed with the goal of maintaining a highly stable asset value through liquid investments, while paying income to investors in the form of ...