Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

Skandia Investment Group has awarded Aviva Investors a GBP8m mandate to help further boost its Skandia UK Strategic Best Ideas Fund, the only long/short Ucits III multi-manager fund in the IMA’s UK All Companies sector. »

UCITS funds enjoyed a solid Q3, helped in part by global equity markets rebounding, according to the latest quarterly industry report compiled by UCITS Alternative »

Barclays Capital has decided to launch the UCITS III-compliant Hedge Fund Replicator Fund in order to provide its investors with regulated, transparent exposure to hedge fund strategi »

French giant asset management firm, Amundi, has announced the launch of a new UCITS fund to be managed by Amundi Alter »

Finnish fund manager, Estland & Partners, has this week announced the launch of its first UCITS III-compliant fund – the Estland & Partners Freedom Fund UI. »

Tom Sandell, the New York hedge fund manager whose firm, Sandell Asset Management, has been actively trading in the merger arbitrage space for the last 12 years, spoke this week to Ci »

Estlander & Partners has launched the Ucits III compliant Estlander & Partners Freedom Fund UI. »

Ucits hedge funds ended the third quarter with a progression of 1.09 per cent in light of the strong rebound of the equity market, according to the Ucits Alternative Index Quarterly Industry Report. »

Amundi has launched Amundi Funds Multimanagers Long/Short Equity, a new sub-fund of its Luxembourg-domiciled umbrella fund Amundi Funds. »

GLG Partners LP, Man Group’s newly acquired investment manager, has announced this week that it is launching a UCIT »