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Hosted by Will Wainewright · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 58 episodes
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The AFI podcast takes listeners behind the headlines to explore the key trends in hedge funds and private markets. It features key decision-makers at leading management firms as well as investors, regulators, journalists and other stakeholders. Host Will Wainewright has reported on the sector for more than a decade in London and New York, working for the Bloomberg newswire and editing the trade magazine EuroHedge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will Wainewright hosts Alternative Fund Insight, a business show with 58 episodes published.
Hedge funds delivered their strongest quarterly performance of the decade so far in the second quarter of 2026, as accelerating returns were accompanied by record investor inflows. Will Wainewright unpacks the industry d
As the industry moves into the second half of 2026 with performance and flows tailwinds, Will is joined by Declan Quilligan, head of hedge fund services, and Ryan Fitzgerald, head of middle office solutions at Citco, for
Will is joined by Declan Quilligan, head of hedge fund services, and Martin McCarthy, head of hedge funds (Europe) at Citco, to explore the drivers behind the sector's rebound in April; continued inflows into the space a
Will is joined by Declan Quilligan, head of hedge fund services at Citco, to review hedge fund performance and flows in March and Q1, an eventful few months for the sector. the agenda this episode: a review of performanc
In this episode, Will spoke to Dan Harris of the Chicago-based hedge fund seeding firm Borealis Strategic Capital Partners about his meetings-filled week in Miami; their research into emerging manager alpha (which sees a
AFI headed to Florida this week to join thousands of fund managers and LPs gathered for Global Alts 2026 and the multiple events organised on the sidelines on Miami Beach, for the ultimate coming together of alpha and ar
On the agenda this episode: a review of performance and flows trends in 2025, a historic year of hedge fund growth, with Declan Quilligan, head of hedge funds at Citco. Related materials: AFI report on Citco research: ht
On the agenda this episode: a review of November performance and flows trends, with Declan Quilligan, head of hedge funds at Citco, as hedge funds close in on one of their best years of recent times. Some links: AFI repo
On the agenda this episode: a review of October performance and flows trends, with Declan Quilligan, head of hedge funds at Citco, and an exploration of innovation in the middle office with his colleague US-based Ryan Fi
This week we speak to Trium Capital’s Tom Roderick, a fund manager from the in-demand world of global macro, which has been one of the sector’s strongest performing sectors this year. Talking points: 1:45 - Introduction
Hedge funds posted a twelfth straight quarter of gains in Q3, putting the $5trn industry on course for its best calendar year of the decade. On this episode, Will dissects the latest trends in the hedge fund space with D
A conversation with Simon Nixon, a senior financial journalist and leading macro thinker. Nixon, formerly the chief European commentator at the Wall Street Journal, was a keynote speaker at the AFI Acceleration Summit on
Polina Kurdyavko, head of emerging markets and senior PM at RBC BlueBay Asset Management, was the special guest, sharing insights on her investing approach, career background and the opportunity set in EM heading into 20
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Greg Bond
CIO · Man Numeric
1 appearance on this show
Mark Dowding
Chief Investment Officer · RBC Global Asset Management
1 appearance on this show
Anthony Scaramucci
Wall Street financier, broadcaster, former Director of Communications for Donald Trump · SkyBridge Capital
1 appearance on this show
Sebastian Mallaby
author of "The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence" · Council on Foreign Relations
1 appearance on this show
Declan Quilligan
Citco
2 appearances on this show
Polina Kurdyavko
RBC BlueBay
1 appearance on this show
Sina Toussi
Two Seas Capital
1 appearance on this show
Brad Wickens
Broad Reach
1 appearance on this show
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