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BTIG expands fixed income platform

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:49
BTIG, a broker dealer specialising in institutional trading and related brokerage services, has hired seven senior professionals in its fixed income group focusing on the areas of high yield/distressed, emerging markets and capital markets. »

Matrix Asia Fund expands team

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:03
Matrix Asia Fund has added Sam West to its team, joining Rupert Foster and David Peerless. »

NYSE to build technology solution for Asean exchange network

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:56
NYSE Technologies and four Asean equities exchanges – Bursa Malaysia, the Philippine Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Thailand – have signed a letter of intent that designates NYSE Technologies as the solutions provider for the Asean Trading Link. »

Prologue adds senior portfolio manager

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:32
Prologue Capital, an alternative investment firm that manages a discretionary fixed income strategy, has hired Noah Estrin as a senior portfolio manager focused on trading US agency mortgages. »

HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index down 0.71 per cent in January

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 14:15
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index declined by 0.71 per cent in January after posting a gain of 20 per cent in 2009. »

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Comment & Opinion

Comment: UK property recovery confirmed

Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:00
James Thornton, Fund Director at Mayfair Capital Investment Management comments on the results of the IPD’s latest survey of the UK property market. The IPD this week released the results of its Annual Index for 2009. At a positive return of +3.4% this confirmed the recovery indicated by the smaller sample measured by the IPD Monthly Index. »

Comment: UK exits recession – slowly

Tue, 26/01/2010 - 21:23
Azad Zangana, European Economist at Schroders, cautions against expectations of a swift UK recovery. »

Comment: Asia to lead global growth in 2010

Tue, 26/01/2010 - 06:00
Hugh Young, managing director of Aberdeen Asset Management Asia believes that Asia will lead global growth in 2010, pulling other emerging markets along with it. »

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Matrix Asia Fund expands team
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:03

Matrix Asia Fund has added Sam West to its team, joining Rupert Foster and David Peerless.

Comment: UK property recovery confirmed
Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:00

James Thornton, Fund Director at Mayfair Capital Investment Management comments on the results of the IPD’s latest survey of the UK property market.
The IPD this week released the results of its Annual Index for 2009. At a positive return of +3.4% this confirmed the recovery indicated by the smaller sample measured by the IPD Monthly Index.

BTIG expands fixed income platform
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:49

BTIG, a broker dealer specialising in institutional trading and related brokerage services, has hired seven senior professionals in its fixed income group focusing on the areas of high yield/distressed, emerging markets and capital markets.

Comment: UK property recovery confirmed
Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:00

James Thornton, Fund Director at Mayfair Capital Investment Management comments on the results of the IPD’s latest survey of the UK property market.
The IPD this week released the results of its Annual Index for 2009. At a positive return of +3.4% this confirmed the recovery indicated by the smaller sample measured by the IPD Monthly Index.

Comment: UK property recovery confirmed
Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:00

James Thornton, Fund Director at Mayfair Capital Investment Management comments on the results of the IPD’s latest survey of the UK property market.
The IPD this week released the results of its Annual Index for 2009. At a positive return of +3.4% this confirmed the recovery indicated by the smaller sample measured by the IPD Monthly Index.

HFRX Indices
StrategyDTDMTDIndex Value
HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index-0.1709-0.21461154.53
HFRX Equal Weighted Strategies Index-0.1036-0.08021112.97
HFRX Absolute Return Index-0.15700.1006986.56
HFRX Market Directional Index-0.3033-0.29741151.16
HFRX Convertible Arbitrage Index-0.10430.0054623.30
HFRX Distressed Securities Index-0.0628-0.1133959.40
HFRX Equity Hedge Index-0.0082-0.39871121.06
HFRX Equity Market Neutral Index0.10050.5231985.22
HFRX Event Driven Index-0.1443-0.23021353.61
HFRX Macro Index-0.4248-0.28801220.92
HFRX Merger Arbitrage Index0.0847-0.12641446.02
HFRX Relative Value Arbitrage Index-0.2697-0.01721109.40
Performance last updated : 05/02/2010