Precious metals

Gold- and currency-focused Insch Capital Management is aiming to maintain its stellar run into next year with a new partnership with quant macro firm CrossBorder Capital.

Alternative investment manager and seed capital provider New Holland Capital made a strategic investment in metals-focused startup hedge fund Shinfalls Commodities.

Insch Kintore, a UK-based gold-focused quantitative hedge fund program, is partnering with Oneworld Plus Management, a Cyprus-headquartered asset manager, to launch a sub-fund on the latter’s Oneworld Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF) platform, as gold prices surge.

Divided by asset class, Alternatives Watch tracked a total of roughly $4.1 billion in deals publicly announced in the five-day period for the week ending Nov. 18. Private equity: $3.1 billion Korea’s KBFG has taken a stake in global private market exchange ...

In the fourth installment in the Alternatives Watch Outlook Series, we discuss how market shifts are affecting investments for non-profits through the lens of an outsourced CIO (OCIO) specialist. Jim Dunn, the CEO and CIO at Verger Capital is well ...

Connor Ridgeway, a senior strategic research analyst at Verus, recently provided Alternatives Watch with a comprehensive tour of a range of unconventional, even “esoteric,” investment strategies that investors today are apt to consider. He had a good deal to say ...

Auspice Capital is a commodity trading advisory firm based in Calgary, Alberta, where the economy is centered on commodities and one investment team is prepping for a boom. The C$500 million ($400 million) Auspice relies on a trend-following strategy, going ...

During the first quarter of 2021 inflation was up, concern about inflation was way up, and gold mining stocks were way down. Why? Rising inflation has historically been good for gold and negative for non-resource stocks and bonds.  Bond investors ...

Many investors watching the current market trends and global growth uncertainty have been pondering macro trends anew. The dollar is depreciating, Bitcoin is hitting new records and investors have flocked to gold as global macro managers reported strong performance in ...

Precious metals traders are coming off a spectacular year as prices in both gold and silver have risen steadily. Over the past year, gold’s value has been rising due to the continued prospect of negative or falling U.S. interest rates ...