The Long-Short

With the global alternative investment world descending on Miami beach for Global Alts Week, The Long-Short gets the complete lowdown and inside scoop with our guest tuning in live from Miami. Michelle Noyes, Head of AIMA Americas, joins us to share all the celebrity sightings from the week, as well as rounding up her key takeaways from the AIMA and Alternative Credit Council Private Credit Invest...

This week, we go to the source of hedge funds' capital and speak to a major allocator.    Eduard van Gelderen manages PSP Investments, one of the largest public pension plans in North America, and joins us to provide his insight into the very unusual Canadian pension model and how it compares to others globally. We discuss the reasons why a pension plan may or may not be able to allocate...

In the last episode of  The Long-Short  of 2022, AIMA CEO, Jack Inglis, looks back at a busy year for the association and the alternative investment industry, and sets out AIMA's stall for what to expect in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The past year has seen plenty of noise regarding alternative investment funds migrating to the United Arab Emirates with some of the largest names in the industry among those setting up shop in the region. To get an on-the-ground report on whether we should believe the hype The Long-Short speaks to Muneer Khan, Middle East Managing Partner at Simmons & Simmons, who joins to discuss t...

This week, The Long-Short checks in on private credit markets to mark the launch of the annual ‘Financing the Economy’ paper by AIMA’s Alternative Credit Council and Allen & Overy. To help us unpack the main findings and provide additional colour, we’ve enlisted the help of three guests who were integral to the production of the report. Allen & Overy’s Denise Gibson, Co-Head of leveraged f...

This episode of The Long-Short is a special one. To mark the one-year anniversary since the launch of the Holding Strong: Alternative Investments in a Volatile Market, a programme produced in partnership with ITN, we are pleased to share an interview with our CEO Jack Inglis conducted by ITN Business host Belle Donati. Jack discussed the resilience of alternative investments, particularly the perf...

Why is now a good time to join the global hedge fund industry and where do I start? This week, The Long-Short revisits a conversation with the authors of AIMA's careers guide, Katherine Abrat, COO of Arkkan Capital, Eleanor Davidson, Quantitative Researcher at Aspect Capital, and AIMA’s Aniqah Rao. In the episode, our guests drop the veil on the numerous entry routes to launching a career in the h...

The Long-Short this week spoke to Bloomberg’s Nadia Humphreys who has spent the past two years advising the European Commission on the coherency of its various ESG-related regulatory regimes with a focus on transparency and data consistency. Nadia offered an insider’s perspective on the rule making process from her role as co-rapporteur for the platform for sustainable finance, on the data and usa...

This week, The Long-Short takes a step through the looking-glass to imagine what the world of asset management could look like with the help of artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation. We’ve enlisted the help of our friends at SS&C, Dr Zeynep Hizir, EMEA Development Director, and Richard Atkinson, Managing Director, to help us understand this new innovative era of finance. Hosted...

This week, The Long-Short had the pleasure of speaking to Sebastian Mallaby, a Paul Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a multi-award-winning author and journalist. His best-known books on alternative investments include More Money Than God, a comprehensive history of the hedge fund industry, while his latest book, The Power Law, lifts t...

Amid continued instability being experienced in global financial markets, managed futures are once again demonstrating their worth to certain investor portfolios, with the average performance from a managed futures fund returning more than 10% net of fees for investors this year. In the latest episode to drop Kevin Donohoe, Head of Research at Abbey Capital speaks to The Long-Short, about these al...

Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg describes his journey from ETFs to ETH, explains why The Merge matters, lays out a use case for NFTs, and gives an insight into which jurisdictions are attracting the most crypto business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't get distracted! Despite the geopolitical and macroeconomic turmoil of the moment, you should have one eye on the potential "game changer" for UK regulatory reform - the Financial Services and Markets bill. Darren Fox, partner at Simmons & Simmons, provides a concise primer in the lead up to implementation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A quiet revolution is underway which is set to transform public and private market investing. Liquid alternatives can help bridge the gap between traditional and alternative assets for investors that do not have the mandate or the resources to invest in hedge funds and offer several ways to add value to your portfolio. In this episode, marking the launch of AIMA’s Bridging a Gap: Mapping the liqui...

As we come to the end of our brief summer season break, The Long-Short wanted to let listeners in on a fascinating discussion with two US SEC representatives whom shed a light on how the rulemaking process works in the US. The SEC has released nearly two dozen rule proposals over the past year, and the recently released regulatory flexibility agenda suggests there is much more to come. During the...

The need for cyber-resiliency was thrown into sharp relief in 2020, when the world voyaged into a new era of digital working. This radical shift in how we work has triggered a permanent arrangement regarding hybrid working. This in turn has ramped up the need for more sophisticated conversations about the risks and challenges with digital working and cyber-security. This week we are joined by Geor...

This week, The Long-Short returns to APAC to cover the recent launch of a joint paper by AIMA and PwC called "Alternatives in Hong Kong: building on the city’s strengths", which sets out six pillars that will support Hong Kong in retaining its status as a key financial centre in the face of challenges brought on by COVID-19, and competition for talent from other jurisdictions. In part one we catch...

With estimated inflation in the US and UK now above predicted levels and nearing double digits, The Long-Short this week revisits a conversation with Henry Neville, an investment analyst at Man Group, who discussed what higher inflation means for retail and institutional investors and what investment strategies usually work best in this environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

A 60 year old marketing rule which determines how investment advisors can market and advertise is changing, and firms that qualify (RIAs) have just four months to comply with a regulation on 4 November, that runs to hundreds of pages, containing opportunities and challenges for the industry. In a not to be missed podcast for all RIAs, joining us on the Long-Short this week are Mike McGrath, Partne...

Amidst a tumultuous series of events impacting crypto markets, The Long-Short caught up with fintech and digital assets thought leader Henri Arslanian, to guide us through the ABCs of cryptocurrencies and get to the bottom of what’s been really going on in crypto markets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Financial Times was at the forefront of uncovering the $2 billion fraud at the centre of Wirecard’s accounts, leading to the German payment processing giant’s collapse in 2020. Two years on, the lead investigative journalist Dan McCrum sits down with The Long-Short to discuss his new book, Money Men, which details how his team, assisted by a cast of committed short sellers, exposed the truth....

This week, The Long-Short is joined by AIMA's representative in Washington DC, Daniel Austin, who provides a timely update to the flurry of regulatory activity in the US with the SEC fielding multiple proposals affecting the alternative investment industry. With so much to keep a track of, this episode is essential listening for all parties. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

This week we speak to two of the key speakers at AIMA’s Next Generation of Mangers Forum that was held in London last month, as well as hearing from Fiona Treble who co-ordinates AIMA’s efforts with our emerging and next generation of fund managers. In part one, we speak to Lawrence Obertelli, Director of Prime Brokerage Sales at Cowen, while in part two we premiere our first on-location interview...

This week, we speak to Jaclyn Bouchard, Head of ESG at Preqin, to compare the challenges of applying ESG principles to private and public markets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, marking the launch of AIMA’s careers guide, The Long-Short speaks to Katherine Abrat, COO of Arkkan Capital, and Eleanor Davidson, Quantitative Researcher at Aspect Capital – two of the guide’s contributors - and to AIMA’s Aniqah Rao, Associate – Markets, Governance and Innovation, who authored the paper, to learn more about career opportunities within the global hedge fund indust...