Alternative Fund Insight
by Will Wainewright
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.
Episodes
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Ep 60 - How AI is transforming investment management
Hello and welcome to the latest AFI podcast, taking you inside the key trends shaping the $5trn-plus global hedge fund industry. This week we’ll look back at key trends in July, including a performance dip but continued inflows, and then turn the discussion to AI and its deployment throughout the...
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Ep 59 - Interview with Glazer Capital, the hedge fund manager which has never had a down year
Hello and welcome to the latest AFI podcast, taking you inside the key trends shaping the $5trn-plus global hedge fund industry, hosted by Will Wainewright. This week we have a special interview with Paul Glazer, founder of New York hedge fund firm Glazer Capital, founded in 1999, which now runs...
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Ep 58 - Hedge funds roar on with best quarter of the DECADE
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 developments with Declan Quilligan, head of hedge fund services at Citco, and...
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Ep 57 - 2026 momentum continues, plus the future of the hedge fund middle office
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 the latest hedge fund update and Fitzgerald provides an update on the...
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Ep 56 - Hedge funds rebound in April ⬆️
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 and operational priorities across data integration and automation. Related...
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Ep 55 - Hedge funds tested by March maelstrom; AFI Acceleration Summit lookback
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 performance and flows trends in 2025, a historic year of hedge fund growth, with Declan...
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Ep 54 - Live in Miami - Borealis Strategic Capital Partners on emerging manager alpha
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 4% performance premium during the first 36 months); the role of SMAs; and...
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Ep 53 - State of the industry with PivotalPath, live from Miami hedge fund week
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 art deco. In the week of President Trump's annual State of the Union address in...
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Ep 52 - Hedge funds post gains and draw capital in 'historic' 2025
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:...
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Ep 51 - Hedge funds close in on banner 2025 after navigating turbulent November
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 report on Citco research:...
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Ep 50 - Innovation in the hedge fund middle-office; October review
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 Fitzgerald, who heads up middle office services at the firm. AFI Hedge Fund...
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Ep 49 - Trium Capital's Tom Roderick on the macro opportunity
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 to Tom Roderick, career background. 4:56 - Structured as Ucits fund; focus on...
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Ep 48 - Strong Q3 puts hedge funds on course for best returns of decade
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 Declan Quilligan, head of hedge fund services at Citco, and explores North...
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Ep 47: Future of the West - Simon Nixon on a new world order; Acceleration Summit follow-up
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 1 October and shares his thoughts in a separate conversation with Will...
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Ep 46: Polina Kurdyavko, RBC BlueBay, on the EM opportunity
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 2026. (Recorded Tuesday 7 October). 1:42 — Career background and evolution.…
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Ep 45 - Macro leads August performance; AFI Acceleration Summit preview
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Ep 44 - Innocap CEO François Rivard on how managed accounts are transforming the hedge fund industry
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Ep 43 - July review: event-driven on the march; inside Citco's data transformation office
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Email [email protected] for corporate discounts. Follow the latest developments via our LinkedIn page. Sign up to free AFI bulletins. Get a free weekly multi-strategy...
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Ep 42 - Man Group CIO Greg Bond on AI adoption, multi-strategy and more at the world's largest listed hedge fund manager
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Email [email protected] for corporate discounts. Follow the latest developments via our LinkedIn page. Sign up to free AFI bulletins. Get a free weekly multi-strategy...
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Ep 41 - H1 hedge fund report: steady gains, private wealth inflows and increased SMA use, with Declan Quilligan, Citco's Head of Hedge Fund Services
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 40 - Technology trends and May review with Declan Quilligan, Citco's Head of Hedge Fund Services
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 39 - Jack Inglis, AIMA CEO, on global regulatory shifts and the future of hedge funds
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 38 - Introducing the AFI 500 hedge fund ranking, with Bill McIntosh
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 37 - Hedge funds advance through April volatility; with Declan Quilligan, Citco's Head of Hedge Fund Services
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 36 - Q1 trends with Declan Quilligan, Citco's Head of Hedge Fund Services
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! You can subscribe to the AFI podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify…
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Ep 35 - IRF founder Edward Blad reveals how independent research providers help hedge funds
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: https://alternativefundinsight.com/membership-options/ Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! Discover the 25...
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Ep 34 - Donald Pepper, Trium Capital's head of multi-strategy, on cultivating trading talent and the role of hedge funds
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: https://alternativefundinsight.com/membership-options/ Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! Donald Pepper,...
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Ep 33 - Pictet Asset Management's Doc Horn on a unique approach to multi-strategy
Get 360-degree insights and agenda-setting research into hedge funds and multi-strategy with AFI membership. Group discounts available for corporates: https://alternativefundinsight.com/membership-options/ Ask Will or email [email protected] for more details! Doc Horn, hedge...
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Ep 32 - Mark Dowding, Bluebay fixed-income CIO, on how the political informs the macroeconomic in 2025
Political turbulence and macroeconomic volatility make it a great environment for active fixed-income investors, says Mark Dowding, CIO of RBC BlueBay's $130bn fixed-income unit. Joining episode 32 of the AFI podcast, Dowding explains why relative value investing is well suited to the volatility...
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Ep 31 - Goldman Sachs Asset Management and PivotalPath on the positive hedge fund outlook in 2025
In a special episode recorded at the start of 2025, AFI founder and podcast host Will Wainewright is joined by Richard Quigley and Jon Caplis, industry leaders from Goldman Sachs Asset Management and PivotalPath, to review hedge fund performance and look ahead to key trends in asset allocation,...
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Ep 30 - Christian Dery, head of macro strategy at CFM, on why all roads lead to fiscal in 2025
Discover the 25 most influential global hedge fund allocators: https://alternativefundinsight.com/power25-hedge-fund-allocator-ranking-2024/ In episode 6 of the second series of the AFI podcast, host Will Wainewright is joined by Christian Dery, head of macro strategy at CFM, the Paris-based firm…
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Ep 29 - Two Seas Capital founder Sina Toussi on his unique event-driven strategy
Discover the 25 most influential global hedge fund allocators: https://alternativefundinsight.com/power25-hedge-fund-allocator-ranking-2024/ In episode 5 of the second series of the AFI podcast, host Will Wainewright is joined by Sina Toussi, founder and CIO at US event-driven manager Two Seas...
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Ep 28 - Explainer: Why 2024 has been the year of the managed account
Start by signing up to AFI's FREE weekly intel newsletter: alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/ In episode 4 of the second series of the AFI podcast, founder and host Will Wainewright brings you the first "Hedge Fund Explainer" - focused on why 2024 has been the year of the managed...
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Ep 27 - Broad Reach's Brad Wickens on global impact of Trump 2.0 and systematic investing in EM
Start by signing up to AFI's FREE weekly intel newsletter: alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/ In episode 3 of the second series of the AFI podcast, host Will Wainewright is joined by Brad Wickens, a veteran emerging markets-focused hedge fund manager and founder of Broad Reach...
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Ep 26 - NorthWall Capital founder Fabian Chrobog on opportunities in European private credit
Start by signing up to AFI's FREE weekly intel newsletter: alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/* In episode 2 of the second series of the AFI podcast, host Will Wainewright is joined by Fabian Chrobog, founder of North Wall Capital, a near-€2bn private credit manager based in London.…
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Ep 25 - Winton co-CIO Simon Judes on performance trends, innovation and the future in CTA investing
Start by signing up to AFI's FREE weekly intel newsletter: alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/* In the first episode of the second series of the AFI podcast, host Will Wainewright is joined by Simon Judes, co-CIO at Winton, a $13bn systematic specialist hedge fund in London. See topics...
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Ep 24 - HFR president Ken Heinz on hedge fund returns, flows, fees and more
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership is now available. Start by signing up to the FREE weekly intel newsletter: alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/*In today's episode, Will is joined by Ken Heinz, president at HFR, for a...
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Ep 23 - Shiloh Bates on the CLO investing opportunity
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership is now available. Start by signing up to the FREE weekly intel newsletter: https://alternativefundinsight.com/newsletter-sign-up/*In today's episode, Will is joined by Shiloh Bates, CIO at Flat Rock...
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Ep 22: Jon Caplis, PivotalPath, on performance trends and LP priorities in a higher rate environment
Will is joined by Jon Caplis, founder at PivotalPath in New York, to dissect hedge fund performance trends and LP priorities heading into 2024. On the agenda:- Jon's industry background and how he came to start PivotalPath, which empowers institutional investors with the ability to conduct the…
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Episode 21 - Sona Menon, Cambridge Associates on current trends in asset allocation
Will is joined by Sona Menon, partner at Cambridge Associates in Boston, for an invaluable insight into the work of outsourced CIOs and current trends in asset allocation. As head of Cambridge Associates' Pension Practice for North America she is responsible for over $20bn in institutional…
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Episode 20 - AIMA chief Jack Inglis on the "existential threat" to hedge funds
Jack Inglis, CEO of industry trade group AIMA, the Alternative Investment Management Association, joined the AFI podcast for a fascinating briefing on the regulatory environment facing hedge funds and other asset managers. Describing the "existential threat" posed by changes to the broker-dealer...
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Episode 19 - Dave Fishwick, global macro hedge fund manager, M&G Investments
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership is now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership for more information*Dave Fishwick, manager of the long-running Episode global macro strategy at M&G Investments, joins the podcast…
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Episode 18 - Alex Band of Partners Capital on building portfolios for endowments/foundations and FOs
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership is now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership for more information*Alex Band, partner and CIO at Partners Capital in Boston, an outsourced investment office for endowments,...
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Episode 17: Marc Rubinstein, the Lansdowne portfolio manager turned financial author
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership for more information*This episode is brought to you in association with SCALE Global Summit, a new event shaping the future of capital,...
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Episode 16: Muddy Waters' Carson Block on UK short-selling overhaul
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership for more information*Activist short-seller Carson Block joined episode 16 of the AFI podcast, giving his views on the UK’s post-Brexit...
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Episode 15 - The hedge fund activism outlook with Maiya Keidan, Thomson Reuters
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership for more information*Maiya Keidan, who covered the hedge fund industry in London for HFM and Thomson Reuters before taking up her current...
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Episode 14 - UBP's Kier Boley on the hedge fund outlook and strategies of interest
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership-options for more information*In episode 14 of the AFI podcast, Will Wainewright is joined by Kier Boley, co-head and CIO of the…
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Episode 13 - Allocator Investcorp-Tages co-CEOs on their hedge fund priorities in 2023
*Discover a new world of alternative investment insight and business intelligence — AFI membership now available. Head to alternativefundinsight.com/membership-options for more information*In the latest AFI episode, Will Wainewright is joined by Salvatore Cordaro and Lionel Erdely, co-CEOs at...
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Episode 12 - Aspect Capital CEO Anthony Todd on trend-following's resurgence in 2022
In the twelfth episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Anthony Todd, CEO and co-founder at Aspect Capital in London. He discussed the stunning performance by CTAs last year, which coincided with Aspect's 25th anniversary, and shared the firm's main research priorities...
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Episode 11 - Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek on GSA Capital's strategy shift and her journey into finance
In the eleventh episode of Alternative Fund Insight, Will Wainewright is joined by Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek, head of strategy at GSA Capital in London. She discussed her journey into quantitative finance and GSA's own change in strategy in the final AFI episode of 2022.You can subscribe to the AFI...
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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.
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