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Hedgeweek USA Awards 2012 July 2012 Hedgeweek USA Awards 2012 Coverline 1 Coverline 2 Coverline 3 CONTENTS In this issue… 03 Volatility the dominant theme for managers in 2011 By James Williams 04 Goldman Sachs AIMS Group Best UCITS-compliant Product 05 Lyxor Best Managed Accounts Platform 06 Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP Best North American Accounting Firm 07 Hedgeweek USA Awards 2012 results 08 Liquidnet Best North American trading venue 09 CurAlea Associates LLC Best risk management software firm 10 Titan Capital Group Best Relative Value Fund Manager 12 Meridian Fund Services Best North American hedge fund administrator 13 Mohican Financial Management LLC Best Convertible Arbitrage Fund Manager 14 Agecroft Partners Best North American Third-Party Marketing Firm 16 Third Eye Capital Best Credit Fund Manager 17 HedgeOp Compliance Best North American regulatory advisory firm 18 Phalanx Capital Management LLC Best Market Neutral and Multi-Strategy Fund Manager Publisher Special Reports Editor: Simon Gray, [email protected] News Editor: James Williams, [email protected] Sales Managers: Simon Broch, [email protected]; Malcolm Dunn, [email protected] Marketing Director: Oliver Bradley, [email protected] Publisher & Editorial Director: Sunil Gopalan, [email protected] Graphic Design: Siobhan Brownlow, [email protected] Photographs: Soohang Lee GFM Ltd, 1st Floor, Liberation Station, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3AS, USA AWARDS 2012 Published by: Channel Islands Tel: +44 (0)1534 719780 Website: www.globalfundmedia.com ©Copyright 2012 GFM Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. HEDGEWEEK USA AWARDS Special Report Jul 2012 www.hedgeweek.com | 2 OVERVIEW Volatility the dominant theme for managers in 2011 By James Williams With a flood of new regulations set to as New York and Chicago, with the winning emerge over the next few months, US hedge managers demonstrating resilience and funds and service providers need to pay consistency in the face of tough markets. close attention to compliance and regulatory 2011 proved a tough year to be a hedge issues even as they battle to stay abreast of fund manager, unless you were trading their performance forecasts. volatility, fixed income or distressed asset Delivering the keynote address at the strategies. The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Hedgeweek USA Awards 2012 held recently Index finished the year down 4.9 per cent; in New York, Jeffrey Rosenthal, Partner and BarclayHedge put the figure at -5.48 per head of the financial services practice at cent. Either way, significant performance was Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, noted that with tough to attain at the industry level. the growing institutionalisation of the hedge Of particular concern was the funds market, managers need to build and performance of Long/Short Equity strategies, maintain strong record keeping procedures which significantly underperformed market in areas ranging from compensation indices. For example, thanks to a late rally agreements to compliance. in October the S&P 500 index ended the Opening the event, held at the Gansevoort year flat. By comparison, long/short equity Hotel in NYC, Hedgeweek Publisher Sunil managers in the US, as a group, returned Gopalan noted that this year’s winners -3.5 per cent according to EurekaHedge, are a diverse cross-section of managers and -4.58 per cent (globally) according to and services providers from across North BarclayHedge. Whichever way you cut it, America, proving that the industry is performance just wasn’t there. thriving outside established centres such Without doubt, trading conditions for 7 HEDGEWEEK USA AWARDS Special Report Jul 2012 www.hedgeweek.com | 3 GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET MANAGEMENT Goldman Sachs AIMS Group Best UCITS-compliant Product As part of the Goldman Sachs Alternative Specifically, the DASP portfolio focuses Investments and Managers Selection on four main hedge fund sectors: tactical Group (AIMS), Goldman Sachs Asset trading (global macro), equity long/short, Management’s specialist hedge fund team – relative value and event driven. Currently it is AIMS Hedge Fund Strategies – has over 40 invested in 10 underlying managers, although years’ experience. With over USD22billion Mullane confirms that number will soon be in AUM, the team is one of the largest 12: “We’ve always felt that we wanted to providers of alternative investment solutions. get to between 12 and 15 managers in the One such solution is the GS Dynamic portfolio to be suitably diversified.” Alternative Strategies (DASP) Portfolio, a When asked why the portfolio targets Luxembourg-domiciled sub-fund of the GS Rob Mullane, Managing the above-mentioned four strategies, Funds II SICAV. As an UCITS-compliant Director, Goldman Sachs Asset Mullane says that they are the “four building multi-strategy FoHF product, which is only Management blocks that we use across all of our client available to investors in certain European portfolios”. Tactical trading is a critical jurisdictions, the portfolio aims to identify and component of DAS and perhaps in light of then invest in the best available hedge fund the macro risks dominating global markets, managers offering UCITS versions of their the portfolio has held an overweight position offshore Cayman funds. in this strategy for some time. The fund, which currently has “One of the issues you have with UCITS USD140million in AUM, was launched in funds is that it’s easy to run long/short March 2010. equity strategies, and therefore you’re likely Speaking with Hedgeweek, Rob Mullane, to get more beta at the portfolio level. What Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asset we’re trying to do is find non-correlated Management, says that the team focuses strategies and tactical trading in particular purely on true hedge fund managers as lends itself to that. It is one of the higher opposed to simply considering anyone that’s allocations in the portfolio and has helped offering weekly liquidity. “One of our initial us survive some of the equity market focuses was to say ‘Who are the offshore drawdowns we’ve seen recently.” managers we already have money with who Through June 2012, the DASP portfolio are willing to offer their strategies using the is up 2.9 per cent. It has, says Mullane, UCITS structure?’ We soon got to a tipping been better able to weather some of the point where there were enough managers market drawdowns and limit losses in event- for us to be able to offer a product that was driven and long/short equity strategies as suitably diversified, and multi-strategy in compared to last year. While equity markets nature.” lost some 7 per cent in May, the portfolio Client demand prompted AIMS Hedge limited losses to 2 per cent. Fund Strategies to develop a fund of UCITS On winning the award, Mullane hedge funds as the group’s traditional FoHF comments: “We are very excited to be products, with their relatively limited liquidity recognised for an award for this product. It’s constraints, were not always the right fit. taken a lot of work to develop this product “Over the last couple of years we’ve seen and get it to market. For us to receive these increased demand from clients who want to kinds of awards is always appreciated invest in alternative strategies but to do so and hopefully it will be one of many going with a preference for investing in onshore forward as we look to continue dedicating structures,” explains Mullane. resources to the UCITS market.” n HEDGEWEEK USA AWARDS Special Report Jul 2012 www.hedgeweek.com | 4 LYXOR Lyxor Best Managed Accounts Platform 2011 saw a total of 28 new funds join the also ranking in the top tier with respect to industry’s largest individual commingled performance YTD. managed account platform across a range As of May 29, the best performing of strategies including multi-strategy, special strategy is fixed income arbitrage, up 5.06 situations, merger arbitrage, emerging market per cent, followed by distressed strategies, LSE, global macro and long/short credit. which are up 3.58 per cent,” says Keller. And this year is proving no different. One of the key strengths of Lyxor’s Two managers in the fixed income and MAP is that it uses an open-architecture global macro space have been onboarded: business model; an important feature when Concordia Advisors, the New York-based counterparty risk is top of investors’ minds. fixed income relative value fund (added Stefan Keller, Head of MAP It uses 11 prime brokers, three independent February), and Bladex, a Latin American Research at Lyxor fund administrators and 15 authorised global macro manager (added March). OTC counterparties. In volatile markets, As of May 29, 2012 the AUM for the MAP this rigorous approach equates to better stood at USD11billion. protection of clients’ capital. Stefan Keller, Head of MAP Research Transparency is another central pillar of at Lyxor, says that despite a difficult the MAP. Whilst risk aggregation has become environment, hedge funds on the platform de rigueur since 2008, Lyxor has been doing have still managed to perform. it since 1998. Says Keller: “Hedge funds on the Lyxor “We’ve developed our own internal way of platform are up 1.08 per cent YTD and the measuring risk across all internal managers. Lyxor Hedge Fund Index as of May 29 was A team of more than 20 risk analysts lie in positive territory in all but one investment behind the Panorama risk engine, which as strategy – basically 12 out of 13 strategies its name implies offers a panoramic view of have been delivering positive performance to portfolio risk. This all ends up in our secured investors in 2012.” website which allows investors to see a And as Keller is keen to stress, the Lyxor homogenous picture of risk in all our client Hedge Fund Index is an investable index holdings,” says Keller.
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