Alternative Fund Insight

In the tenth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, co-founder and chairman at $10bn quant firm Capital Fund Management. A physicist by training and a pioneer in the world of quantitative finance, Bouchaud has overseen the growth of Paris-based CFM to one of the world's largest quant hedge funds. He discusses his career in finance, the shape of C...

In the ninth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Stuart Fiertz, co-founder and president at $10bn London firm Cheyne Capital Management. One of the leading figures in the European alternatives industry, Fiertz co-founded Cheyne Capital with Jonathan Lourie in 2000. Since the financial crisis the firm has pivoted towards private credit and other areas of alternatives,...

In the eighth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by James Jampel and Matt Niblack, co-CIOs at energy-focused firm HITE Hedge Asset Management. In this exclusive interview, the pair give an insight into trading this year’s historic market turbulence; explain how hedge funds can contribute to the climate transition; argue that shorting companies should count as ESG; and...

In the seventh episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Courtney Birnbaum, director of sustainability at New York-based, women-led investment firm Corbin Capital Partners. The $8.3bn LP, which specialises in multi-strategy hedge funds and opportunistic credit investing, takes a proactive approach to diversity and ESG issues, which Birnbaum explains in this exclusive inter...

In the sixth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital, organiser of the SALT conference and crypto evangelist. Recorded in New York earlier this month, we discuss SkyBridge’s deal with Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX, why he remains bullish on the digital asset sector and his negative outlook on hedge funds. We...

In the fifth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by David Magerman, a venture capitalist with Differential Ventures and former quantitative hedge fund manager with Renaissance Technologies. Magerman joined Renaissance in 1995 and helped found the equities trading group. He spent about two decades during two spells at Jim Simons’ firm, widely seen as the most successful...

In the fourth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Eric Lonergan, a macro hedge fund manager with M&G Investments, policy economist and author. His latest book, SuperCharge Me, provides a policy action plan to speed up decarbonisation and can be seen as something of a manifesto for campaign group Extinction Rebellion. Lonergan also gave his thoughts on the ESG debate,...

In the third episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Patrick Ghali, managing partner of hedge fund advisory firm Sussex & Partners; and Ludovica Brignola, a financial journalist based in Istanbul. Ghali gives his take on hedge fund performance this year, which has drawn negative headlines but provided important diversification for some investors at a time of volatile mar...

In the second episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Sebastian Mallaby, a leading financial author and the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallaby wrote the definitive history of hedge funds, More Money than God (2010), and this year published Power Law, which tells the story of venture capital. The latter h...

In the first episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Dan McCrum of the Financial Times, who spent years reporting on Wirecard, the online payments company at the heart of an epic short-selling battle. Wirecard imploded in 2020 after auditors discovered a 1.9 billion euro hole in its accounts - but only after years of dogged detective work by a band of hedge funds and a r...