Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

Institutional investors feel that regulators are not in tune with investor requirements, according to a survey commissioned by structuring specialist Alceda. »

FTSE Group has launched the FTSE Super Liquid Index Series (SLQ), a broad family of real-time free float market capitalisation weighted indices designed to mimic the characteristics of key FTSE indices via a smaller, highly liquid universe of stocks. »

Newscape Capital Group, the London based investment firm, has launched its third specialist Ucits fund. »

It looks like European regulators are continuing to seek to limit the instruments that UCITS funds may invest in, with unregulated hedge funds the next out-of-bounds category. »

Alternative strategies within a Ucits framework continued to see improving demand in the third quarter, with growth in both the number of funds and assets under management, according to the Alceda Quarterly Ucits review produced by independent structuring specialist Alceda Fund Management. »

The automotive sector is revving up interest with fund managers such as Paris-based Charles-Henri Neme, whose EUR400million Exane Funds 1 – Ceres A fund is targeting automotive stocks to increase cyclical exposure and piggyback on emerging market growth trends reported Citywire Global this week. »

Single manager alternative UCITS attracted EUR746million in net inflows in Q3 according to the latest quarterly compiled by MondoAlternative. »

TT International, one of Europe’s oldest hedge fund management companies, has teamed up with Deutsche Bank to launch the UCITS-compliant DB Platinum TT International Fund. »

The latest statistics released by the Malta Financial Services Authority show that the number of funds domiciled in Malta have continued to register steady growth.  »

The Ucits compliant DB Platinum TT International fund has launched on Deutsche Bank’s Ucits platform. »