{"id":31046,"date":"2012-09-04T06:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31046"},"modified":"2012-09-04T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:47:12","slug":"hedge-fund-man-nomura-launch-computer-driven-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/hedge-fund-man-nomura-launch-computer-driven-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Man, Nomura Launch Computer Driven Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hedge-Fund-Tech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26398\" title=\"Hedge-Fund-Tech\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hedge-Fund-Tech-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hedge-Fund-Tech-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hedge-Fund-Tech.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge fund manager Man Group has teamed up with investment bank Nomura to\u00a0launch a computer-driven fund,\u00a0The Nomura Man Systematic Fixed Income fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund uses algorithms from Man&#8217;s $16.7 billion flagship fund AHL, it will trade interest rate and bond futures,\u00a0currencies\u00a0and interest rate swaps\u00a0globally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world\u2019s bond markets are roughly twice the size of the world\u2019s equity markets yet much less money is managed by fixed income than by equity alternative investment managers.&#8221;\u00a0Sandy Rattray, chief investment officer of Man Systematic Strategies, a division of Man running the fund, said. &#8220;In an environment where market participant risk-taking in interest rates has been considerably reduced since 2008, this creates attractive alpha opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fund will seek to latch onto trends in prices; spot distortions in yield curves and benefit by their reverting to normal; and profit from higher interest rates in emerging market currencies if it judges market conditions\u00a0favorable.<\/p>\n<p>The fund was seeded with $50 million and has been in the works since January 2010. A UCITS version may be in the works, Man said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Hedge fund manager Man Group has teamed up with investment bank Nomura to\u00a0launch a computer-driven fund,\u00a0The Nomura Man Systematic Fixed Income fund. The fund uses algorithms from Man&#8217;s $16.7 billion flagship fund AHL, it will trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,16023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046","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=31046"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31048,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046\/revisions\/31048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}