BlueCrest Slams UK as Bad for Business After Top Court Tax Case Loss July 2, 2026 By Lucca de Paoli and Nishant Kumar Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management said the UK is “no longer a serious contender” as a place to do business...
Hedge Funds Are Expanding Desks Designed to Profit From Natural-Catastrophe Risk June 8, 2026 By Gautam Naik When Mitesh Parikh, a headhunter at UK recruiter Selby Jennings, started looking for an ILS modeler for a large US...
Hedge Funds Make Their Move as Litigation Finance Assets Slump May 11, 2026 By William Shaw, Edward Clark and Gautam Naik A losing streak in litigation finance is attracting hedge funds and other alternative investment managers looking to invest in legal...
Hedge Fund Money Is Reshaping a 180-Year-Old Insurance Model April 13, 2026 By Gautam Naik Alternative investment managers are pouring unprecedented sums of money into the market for property cover, and reshaping a 180-year-old reinsurance...
Hedge Funds Targeting Fire Insurance Hit a Wall in California October 6, 2025 By Natasha White Hedge funds speculating on wildfire insurance claims in California were just dealt a legal blow, after the state adopted new...
Litigation Funder’s Plan to Invest in Law Firms Called ‘Bad Policy,’ With Big Impacts August 21, 2025 By William Rabb With more states adding or considering restrictions on third-party funding of lawsuits, one of the largest litigation finance firms is...
Catastrophe Bonds Are Luring Retail Investors to High-Risk Debt June 24, 2024 By Gautam Naik There was a time when investing in catastrophe bonds was the preserve of hedge funds and other sophisticated alternative asset...
Investment Funds File New Suits Over Lighthouse Insurance Collapse in 2022 April 23, 2024 By William Rabb Three investment firms connected to some of the best-known names on Wall Street have upped the ante in a legal...
Hedge Fund That Rode Catastrophe Bond Rally Mounts Tactical Retreat March 13, 2024 By Gautam Naik A hedge fund that last year delivered its best result ever thanks to catastrophe bonds is now scaling back its...
Risk Models Behind Insurance-Linked Securities Are Getting a Lot Harder to Crack February 26, 2024 By Gautam Naik and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee As the best hedge fund strategy of 2023 becomes a magnet for mainstream investors, the risk models it relies on...