{"id":26935,"date":"2012-01-18T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26935"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:22:53","slug":"hedge-fund-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2012\/hedge-fund-launches.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Launches: The Pyxis Alternative Income Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26939\" title=\"hedge fund launch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Pyxis Capital, L.P.has launched the Pyxis Alternative Income Fund. Anchor Capital Management Group, Inc. (\u201cAnchor Capital\u201d) will serve as the fund\u2019s sub-advisor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pyxis Alternative Income Fund offers mutual fund investors a strategy that until recently was typically only available through exclusive hedge funds and large institutional accounts,\u201d said Joe Dougherty, President of Pyxis Capital. \u201cAdding this option to our family of funds will help us serve the unique needs of our growing client base of investment advisors and individuals who are looking beyond the limitations of a typical fixed income fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pyxis Alternative Income Fund invests both long and short across securities benchmarked to high yield corporate bonds, such as ETFs. Unlike traditional long only fixed income strategies, this fund seeks to profit from both rising and falling prices, while maintaining low correlation to traditional benchmarks and minimizing volatility through active hedges. The fund is expected to be classified in the Morningstar\u00ae Nontraditional Bond category.<\/p>\n<p>The Pyxis Alternative Income Fund will benefit from Anchor Capital\u2019s deep experience and proprietary technical analysis. The firm\u2019s proprietary strategy and methodology, which will be deployed in the Pyxis Alternative Income Fund, has been in place since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith interest rates at historic lows, investors are rethinking their fixed income strategies,\u201d said Eric Leake, Anchor Capital Chief Investment Officer and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Pyxis Alternative Income Fund. \u201cWith our focus on capitalizing on short, intermediate and long term trends, we provide a liquid alternative to traditional fixed income investing for today\u2019s volatile markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Pyxis Capital, L.P.has launched the Pyxis Alternative Income Fund. Anchor Capital Management Group, Inc. (\u201cAnchor Capital\u201d) will serve as the fund\u2019s sub-advisor. \u201cThe Pyxis Alternative Income Fund offers mutual fund investors a strategy that until recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935\/revisions\/26938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}