Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

Macro Currency Group, the specialist currency investment boutique of global asset management firm Principal Global Investors, has launched the Principal Global Investors Funds Multi Strategy Currency Fund, (the Fund), a Dublin-registered, UCITS-compliant vehicle. »

The IMA has voiced concerns that different jurisdictions are allowing managers greater flexibility when reporting fund charges in the Key Investor Information Documents (KIID) under UCITS IV report »

Pictet Asset Management announced this week the launch of its latest Lux-domiciled UCITS fund. »

Germany’s Universal-Investment has announced the acquisition of SEB Master KAG, a UCITS platform, a move which Universal-Investment spokesperson Bernd Vorbeck said will strength »

Oslo-based DNB Asset Management, the fund management arm of DNB, has decided to take advantage of its specialist knowledge of its domestic market by launching a Norway-focused absolute retur »

2012 was a promising start for alternative UCITS funds with the UCITS Alternative Index Global gaining 1.37 per cent having fallen 3.64 per cent in 2011. »

A new fund which aims to give clients access to both GAM’s investment management expertise and Barclays Capital’s quantitative stra »

Total assets in Irish-domiciled funds have exceeded EUR1trillion, an all-time high, reflecting what Gary Palmer (pictured), Chief Executive of the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA) »

Aquila Capital’s AC Risk Parity 7 Fund has reached a four year track record of consistently positive year-on-year returns. »

EFAMA this week was broadly in agreement with proposals setting out future guidelines on UCITS ETFs and other UCITS issues detailed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in »