The main event this month was the largest volatility spike ever, as a result of more than 8% drop in the S&P 500 index. Corporate directors anticipated this and sold off parts of their holdings allowing the fund to build up a strong short book. For more detailed explanation...
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Lee Robinson: Short-vol trades worsened market losses
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EuroHedge 22 February 2018 EuroHedge. Former Trafalgar Asset Managers manager Lee Robinson has added his voice to the chorus blaming strategies selling volatility for the market reversals earlier this month. “This is the first time that rising volatility has caused markets to fall rather than the other way round,”...
Altana Volatility Flash – Feb 2018
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We are pleased to share with you the below “Altana’s Volatility Flash”, as it discusses an extremely rare volatility market event and a two-fold story, explaining how all this impacts opportunities for the Altana Volatility Strategy going forward: We tend not to make money in the immediate market drop....
Hedge Funds Brace as QE Turns to QT
Hedge Funds Brace as QE Turns to QT – Wall Street Journal, February 14 2018 Lee Robinson was quoted in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about the effects of QE “With the great unwind of quantitative easing underway, some hedge fund executives are bracing for further trouble ahead… Monaco-based...
Hedge Funds Grow Wary of Cryptocurrency Mania
The Wall Street Journal published an article on cryptocurrencies on January 24, 2018 highlighting the performance of the Altana Digital Currency Fund in 2017 and quoting Lee Robinson. “Bitcoin’s rise of more than 13-fold in 2017 helped fuel a stellar year for the still-small number of hedge funds dedicated...
Bitcoin Frenzy Helps Crypto Hedge Funds Reap 1,100% Gains
Source: Bloomberg By Bei Hu, Nishant Kumar, Hema Parmar, and Klaus Wille. 16 January 2018. Altana Digital Currency Fund “Investment universe: Started in 2014, the fund buys cryptocurrencies in proportion to their global market value and adjusts holdings regularly based on sentiment and market opportunities, according to a presentation seen...
Le cours du Bitcoin dépasse les 10 000 dollars
Alistair Milne was quoted in a recent article in Le Monde when Bitcoin passed the $10,000 mark. “Le cours du Bitcoin dépasse les 10 000 dollars” Par Marie Charrel, 29.11.2017 “D’après Alistair Milne, gérant du fonds Altana Digital Currency Fund, basé à Monaco, la plate-forme d’échange de devises numériques en ligne...
Bitcoin Is the New Crisis Currency
Alistair Milne is quoted in the below Bloomberg article about how Bitcoin is being increasingly seen as a safe haven currency. To read the article, please click here. Source: Bloomberg, by Rob Urban 27 Nov 2017.
The Cryptocurrency and Blockchain World (Who are the winners and losers?), by Lee Robinson (The Hedge Fund Journal, Issue 127)
Who are the winners and losers in the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain world? Three vantage points have given me an insider’s insight into the growing cryptocurrency sector and who are the likely winners and losers. As an investment manager, I regularly get to see the latest innovations – both good...
Cryptocurrency Trading 101 (By James Harvey)
Alistair Milne, the CIO of ADCF was featured in a recent article in HFMWeek “Crypto Currency Trading 101” (https://hfm.global/hfmweek/analysis/cryptocurrency-trading-101/ ) “Alistair Milne, CIO of Altana Digital Currency Fund, says that limiting trading to one exchange would be irresponsible. “It’s essential that managers open numerous exchange accounts, and do their due...
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