Survey Results/Press Releases

July, 2017 – Quantitative investing has been experiencing a resurgence of interest among investors in alternative investments –fueled by big data, ever-more sophisticated algorithms and increasingly efficient technologies. Given investors’ interest in quantitative investment funds, the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable recently looked at how the alternative investment community views the strategy compared to the…

June, 2017: Sustainability is no longer a niche issue, it is front and center on the global stage. As society becomes increasingly concerned with sustainability issues, particularly younger generations, more and more companies are choosing to be more proactive in addressing this topic in some way, realizing that if they do not, it can have…

May, 2017: The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable is pleased to announce Ferential Systems Inc. as the Roundtable’s newest sponsor. Ferential Systems is a boutique provider of risk management software solutions for fixed income, foreign exchange, and derivative instruments. Its flagship product, Pyramid, is a real-time, front-to-back trade processing and portfolio risk decomposition suite. Large banks, brokerage…

May, 2015 – As disasters like BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill highlight the many ways a company’s stock price and returns can be damaged, members of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable have seen a significant increase in investor demand for socially responsible investments and believe that firms that fail to respond to such…

April, 2017: When asked if the federal government will legalize marijuana within the next 10 years, 64% of respondents believe it will, while 36% believe it won’t.The alternative investment community is a fan of marijuana –at least from an investment perspective. With marijuana now legal in 26 states and Washington D.C., and having been approved…

NEW YORK, N.Y., March 2, 2017 – The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable announced today its 2017 Board of Directors, officers and Management Committee members. The new Management Committee, along with the NYHFR’s Board of Directors, will continue the organization’s efforts to promote awareness of issues of importance for the alternative investment industry and to…

March, 2017: Despite having a single product that is already being copied by many of its competitors, the stock price of Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, soared 44% in its first day of trading –only to lose much of that value in the days since. Add to that the fact that it has…

March, 2017 – The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable announced today its 2017 Board of Directors, officers and Management Committee members. The new Management Committee, along with the NYHFR’s Board of Directors, will continue the organization’s efforts to promote awareness of issues of importance for the alternative investment industry and to educate its members about…

February, 2017: British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain will trigger Article 50 of the European Union’s Treaty on Lisbon by the end of the month, a move that will officially start the clock on the two year period during which the UK must negotiate the specific conditions for its withdrawal from the…

NEW YORK, NY, January 12, 2018 – With the United States well into its third longest period of economic expansion to date, economists are wondering how long the markets will be able to continue rising and whether or not the seemingly endless surge in the price of Bitcoin indicates that we are in the midst…