Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with HAWK Quantitative Strategies – a company associated with Caxton Associates LP – to launch the third alternative single manager on its Lyxor Dimension UCITS Platform. »

The UCITS Alternative Index Global fell -0.49 per cent in March, erasing February’s gains of 0.87 per cent to leave it at 1.75 per cent YTD. »

GLG, the discretionary investment manager of hedge fund behemoth Man Group has launched a UCITS-III compliant version of its long/short financials fund reported F »

Managers are resisting proposed regulatory reforms that would see them no longer being able to profit from securities lending – a practice whereby shares or ot »

Swiss banking group SYZ & Co this week announced the launch of OYSTER US Selection, a new sub-fund of its OYSTER Luxembourg UCITS SICAV. »

The Irish Minister for Finance has approved, in principal, the development of legislation for a new corporate fund structure intended to meet US ‘check the box’ requirements and reduce »

Although the overall number of countries with tax issues as a result of implementation of the UCITS IV Directive has decreased since 2010, there still remains a significant portion of EU Member Sta »

Last Monday saw New York-based GSB Podium Advisors launch a UCITS version of its global market neutral equity long/short strategy, prior to which it had been running solely in the form of three managed accounts. The GSB Equity Market Neutral (UCITS) Fund has been designed to replicate the systematic strategy whose genesis dates back to 1997 when GSB founder Shengbei Guo ran Deutsche Bank’s equity statistical arbitrage trading desk. »

Monday 19 March saw New York-based GSB Podium Advisors launch a UCITS version of its global market neutral equity long/short strategy, prior to which it had been running solely in the form of three »

Pictet Asset Management this week launched the Pictet-Global Flexible Allocation fund, a Lux-domiciled UCITS fund. »