Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

London-based Merchant Capital, an independent Dublin-domiciled UCITS umbrella structure and part of the Merchant House Gr »

Kenmar Group, a global alternative investment firm headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, has »

Societe Generale has launched a Ucits fund solution for fund managers setting up or redomiciling funds under Ucits regulations. »

OFI Asset Management and Gottex Solutions Services intend to enter into a joint venture called Luma Solutions Services, a Luxembourg based platform providing onshore managed account services to Ucits and other European onshore funds with an initial asset base of USD350m (EUR250m). »

Kevin McConnell, fund manager of Bloxham’s Midas Global Absolute Return Ucits III Fund, has revealed strategies designed to fight liquidity difficulties in the market going forward into 2011. »

The Kenmar Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland have launched what they believe to be the first ever commodity fund of funds in a Ucits III format. »

Merchant Capital, the independent Ucits umbrella provider to the hedge fund industry, has formed a partnership with Altarius Group to provide lines of distribution across Austria and Germany for its stable of Ucits funds. »

Irish authorised UCITS will still be eligible for investment from Chilean pension funds, according to a recent statement released by the Irish Funds Industry Assoc »

Cantab Capital Partners, a Cambridge-based systemic global macro hedge fund with assets in excess of USD1billion, is prep »

London-based Matrix Group, one of the UK’s leading financial services businesses with around USD5.9billion in AUM, confirmed this week that it had rotated its Matrix Asia UCITS Fund »