Structured Products

Investable hedge fund products are growing in popularity, says Kevin Pilarski, director of alternative strategies/derivatives, Dow Jones Indexes/STOXX Ltd. Hedge fu »

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has appointed Rohit Bhagat as Global Chief Operating Officer. Bhagat will have oversight responsibility for the technology, operations, finance, strategic pla »

RMF has concluded a seeding arrangement through its hedge fund ventures programme with ISPartners Alternative Risk Advisors AG. Under the terms of agreement, RMF - »

Landmark Investors LLC, owned by Baron Advisors and the family office of Barry Diller and the von Furstenbergs, is opening two funds to outside investors. Landmark Investors, an alternative »

Nomura is launching its first commodities certificate for the German retail market, seeking to exploit opportunities and limit risk using the Rogers Index. Cushion »

The Equity Hedge Index led the performance of the HFRX Indices in the week ended 14 June, returning 0.50% over the week. It was followed by the Event Driven Index (0.42%) and the Market Dire »

Harcourt AG has acquired a minority equity stake in MSS Capital, which runs the managed account platform underlying the FTSE Hedge investible indices. MSS Capital i »

Chantal Mazzacurati has been appointed head of BNP Paribas' Alternative Investment Management and Structured and Indexed Management teams. She has also been made re »

The latest data from EDHEC suggests that the only hedge fund strategy that yielded positive returns in April was short selling. The month was characterised by poor »

After a steady decline over the past few weeks, most of the HFRX Indices moved back into positive territory in the week ending 24 May.The recovery was lead by the Market Directional Index, w »