The Long-Short

Following AIMA’s sold-out inaugural digital asset event in New York last week, The Long-Short caught up with the keynote speaker Eric Peters, CEO of One River Asset Management, who offered an update on the latest trends in the market that dominated discussion on the day. The Long-Short also spoke to conference attendee Alex Botte, head of client, and portfolio solutions at Runa Digital Assets, who...

This week we welcome Nilesh Sudrania, CEO and founder of Sudrania Fund Services to discuss how the fund administration industry is moving onto a more digitised footing, with new services being offered to alternative investment funds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we recorded from AIMA’s Singapore Annual Forum. In part one we speak to the event’s co-chairs Natalie Curtis, partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, and Thomas Scott-Barton, COO at Trovio Group, who offer their insights on the key trends of the alternative investment industry in APAC right now. In part two, The Long-Short sits down with Kher Sheng Lee, AIMA’s co-head of APAC based in Singap...

Another opportunity to listen to some of the remarks made by guests that joined The Long-Short over the past three months. Guests that feature in this special episode include, Bill Kelly CEO and President of CAIA, Robyn Grew, COO of Man Group, global fintech and crypto consultant Henri Arslanian and Henry Neville of Man Group. The Long-Short will return with a set of fresh new episodes next week....

Radical change is coming to the US hedge fund industry. The barrage of proposals introduced by the SEC will significantly impact the way alternative fund managers operate. If approved in their current form, these far-reaching proposals would represent a serious overhaul of existing market practices. Not since AIFMD was introduced by the EU have we faced such disruptive changes to the rules affecti...

Recently, the UK government divided opinions in the pensions and asset management communities by underscoring its commitment changing the rules around how defined contribution pension schemes can invest in less-liquid products, including the launch of a new investment vehicle—the Long-Term Asset Fund—and the removal of some performance fees from the charge cap. To untangle exactly what is being pr...

Freddie Parker, Co-Head of Prime Insights & Analytics, at Goldman Sachs, shares the findings of his research into the growing universe of hedge funds that are adding private market exposure to their strategies, with potentially disruptive consequences for the traditional venture capital model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Professor Keith Black, Managing Director at CAIA Association's Financial Data Professional Institute (FDP) speaks to our hosts Tom Kehoe, and Drew Nicol on the growing influence of quantitative techniques and alternative data as it becomes more mainstream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaking to The Long-Short on International Women’s Day, Man Group’s Robyn Grew set out her vision for a fairer and more inclusive industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Long-Short welcomed Henry Neville, an investment analyst at Man Group, who discussed the ever-growing threat of higher inflation in global markets. Henry explained what the highest inflation levels of the past 40 years means for retail and institutional investors, what investment strategies usually work best in this environment, and what to expect from the Fed and other central banks over the...

This week, The Long-Short spoke to Matthew Franko, Principal, and David M. Collins, Manager, Gov Risk Strategy, Office of the CISO from RSM US LLP as well as James Delaney, Director of Asset Management and Regulation at AIMA.The conversations highlighted the considerations that an investment manager could make to prepare and respond to a cyber threat or disruption in order to continue to be an eff...

Confused by the recent flurry of proposed rules by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for private funds and capital markets? The Long-Short spoke to Daniel Austin, Director of US Policy and Regulation at AIMA, to unpack each major regulatory requirement, including why they are being proposed, and what they mean for the alternative investment industry in the US and globally. Hosted on Acast....

With Intelligence's Senior Research Analyst Christopher Brown breaks down the key findings of the recent WI-AIMA US Investor Intentions H1 2022 report and adds additional colour on what the data says about allocators and their views on alternative investments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 14 of The Long-Short welcomes CAIA's CEO and president Bill Kelly, who joins our hosts to discuss his vision for improving financial literacy and understanding of the alternative investment industry among the general public, explain why keeping CAIA’s curriculum up-to-date with the market is a never-ending job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, The Long-Short focuses on the events of ‘hedge fund week’ in Miami, including the AIMA and Alternative Credit Council Private Credit Investor Forum. AIMA representatives Michelle Noyes, Head of AIMA Americas, and Romulad Beneche, Director, attending the events gave their hot-takes on the key themes of the first major in-person event for hedge funds in two years. The Long-Short also spok...

In this episode of The Long-Short we investigate why so many private credit funds are entering the trade finance market. Our guests this week are TXF’s editor-in-chief and director Jonathan Bell and Jolyon Ellwood-Russell, a partner at Simmons & Simmons focused on Private Credit, Trade & Commodity Finance in Asia, who recently partnered with AIMA's Alternative Credit Council on a research report a...

The Long-Short is now weekly. In our first back-to-back episode, we speak with Henri Arslanian, PwC’s Crypto Leader, to guide us through the latest developments in the fastest moving segment of the alternatives market. Join us for a must-listen episode to prepare for what will undoubtedly be a fascinating year for digital assets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our first episode of the year, Adam Jacobs-Dean returns to The Long-Short to review a busy 2021 for short sellers, with several key regulatory developments and trends expected to continue to dominate the market in the year ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the last episode of The Long-Short of 2021, 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 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 8 of The Long-Short, co-hosts Tom Kehoe and Drew Nicol are joined by ITN Production’s Head of Industry News Nina Harrison-Bell to discuss the recent collaborative project which produced the news-style programme, Holding Strong: Alternative Investment in a Volatile Market, and her thoughts as to how best to deliver digital content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

In our latest episode, The Long-Short host Tom Kehoe sits down with industry stalwart, John Budzyna, Managing Director at KPMG in the US (National Leader responsible for Market Development for Alternative Investments) who describes the key findings of a new collaborate research project exploring how hedge funds are accelerating out of the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Episode 6 of The Long-Short covers all things private credit and unpacks the findings of the recently-published Financing the Economy report, which this year focuses on how private credit managers are integrating ESG into their investment strategies. Drew Nicol is joined by Jiri Krol, Global Head of the ACC, and Stanimir Kostov, a Partner in the Global Leveraged Finance practice at Allen & Overy,...

This week’s episode welcomes our first external guest, Mush Ali, Director at OneTen Associates, a specialist recruiter for the fund management sector. Ali gives his perspective on how the hedge fund recruitment market has evolved over the past decade offering guidance to firms looking to hire prospective candidates looking for their next career move. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

This week’s podcast examines the world of emerging hedge fund managers, otherwise described at AIMA as next generation managers (fund managers running up to US$500 million AuM). Fiona Treble, global head of membership at AIMA and responsible for coordinating AIMA’s engagement with next generation of managers, joins The Long-Short to discuss the opportunity and challenges for this crucial part of t...

We hear and read about digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, all the time but they are still surrounded by misconceptions. Our host Drew Nicol speaks to Michelle Noyes, AIMA’s head of Americas and a driving force for the association’s digital assets working group, to dispel some common myths around digital assets and explains how hedge funds are navigating the opportunities and challenges in t...