This shift towards AIFs is a relative movement of capital away from traditional, long-only products such as mutual funds and PMS into hedge-style, long-short, quant and absolute-return funds, that offer lower volatility, downside protection and more stable returns.
Yet for money managers who weaponize computing advances for an investing edge, the era of ChatGPT holds a less lofty promise for now: Automating the grunt work.
There are three scenarios where hedging becomes crucial, which has to do with dealing with Past, Present & Future risk of loss.
It would encourage hedged trades, making the derivative markets safer
In Europe, airlines such as Aer Lingus and Ryanair are aiming to take advantage of the low oil prices to lock in fuel costs into 2016 and beyond. Thai Airways plans to hedge 100 percent of its fuel purchases this year
Oil hit four-year lows around USD 70 a barrel, as OPEC resisted the temptation to cut back production following a more than 30 percent plunge in prices since June.
An IRF is a contract between a buyer and a seller for future delivery of an interest-bearing security such as government bonds.
Spot gold was down USD 1 at USD 1,234.89 an ounce by 0025 GMT, after gaining 1 percent on Monday as the dollar eased from three-year highs.
While pension funds and other institutional investors have been quick to bail on gold as bullion fell deeper into bear market territory in the second quarter, they have yet to abandon other markets like oil and metals en masse, asset allocation experts and analysts say.
Moses Harding of IndusInd Bank attributes this rupee low to general dollart strength and a weak macro scenario in India.
With real estate IPOs being called off due to stock market volatility a couple of years ago, this move by the government to allow put and call options on contracts will provide a breather to private equity investors who had hoped to gain by exiting through the primary market route.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb says Sony Corp reminds him of Yahoo Inc before he waged a bitter proxy fight that triggered a boardroom shake-out at the Internet company last year.
Internal measures we took on cost, the weakening yen and commodity prices helped us to achieve good Q4 results, says, Ajay Seth, CFO, Maruti Suzuki.
Gold was little changed on Wednesday ahead of the outcome of a US Federal Reserve policy meeting that investors hope will unveil more bond buying measures, supporting bullion's appeal as a hedge against inflation.
Speaking to a number of exporters, importers, CFOs over the last several years, we have felt that most people find forex to be a tough beast to tame and view it with fear.
After several false dawns following the global financial crisis, more investors are starting to believe the current rally in stocks, commodities and emerging markets could be a long-lasting one.
With nearly half of total revenues coming from exports, the recent sharp deprecation in rupee spells good news the pharma sector. The rupee has depreciated against the US dollar in recent months. It even breached the 54 mark against the US dollar on Thursday and was trading around Rs 54.18 in afternoon session.
Gopika Gopakumar of CNBC-TV18 reports quoting sources that it may not be necessary that the lenders to the GTL twins will agree to all the proposals given under the restructuring proposal put forth by ICICI Bank.
After Infosys cheered the market on Wednesday, all eyes will now be on Tata Consultancy Services, which reports its second quarter earnings on Monday.