Weekly UCITS News (Friday)

Concerns have been raised by EFAMA, the European lobby for asset management, that the latest consultation paper from the European Commission on UCITS could damage the unified label of the fund brand reported Citywire Global this week. »

Alternative strategies within a Ucits framework witnessed further improvements in demand in the second quarter of 2012, according to the first in a series of quarterly reviews of the Ucits sector by Alceda Fund Management. »

Alternative UCITS enjoyed further improvements in demand in Q2 2012, according to the first in a series of quarterly reviews of the UCITS sector produced by independent structuring specialis »

Alternative investment company Aquila Capital’s AC Risk Parity 12 Fund has achieved four years of consistently positive year-on-year returns. »

The Skyline Ucits Fund has completed a successful first year recording a return of 20.5 per cent, placing the fund at the top of its peer group and in the top one per cent of all alternative Ucits funds. »

Schroders has launched another internally-managed fund, Schroder GAIA Global Macro Bond, on its Ucits platform, Schroder GAIA (Global Alternative Investor Access), which is designed to gve investors easier access to hedge funds. »

Quantitative asset manager, Aquantum AG, which specializes in developing scientific methods to build managed futures strategies and is also a spe »

Morningstar has called for greater transparency in the securities lending industry after conducting research into the practices of 10 European providers of physical replication exchange traded funds. Morningstar said that improvement was necessary in terms of disclosure of counterparties’ identities which remains “subject to much resistance”. Under the latest guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS-compliant funds provided by the European Securities & Markets Authority (Esma), a fund’s annual report will need to provide a list of borrowers. This should go some way to satisfying calls for greater transparency in this area. »

InfraHedge, a managed account infrastructure platform and a subsidiary of State Street, has been selected by Milltrust International Group to launch its Emerging Markets Managed Accounts (EMM »

InfraHedge, a managed account infrastructure platform and a subsidiary of State Street, has been chosen by Milltrust International Group for the launch of its Emerging Markets Managed Accounts (EMMA plc) platform, a dedicated emerging markets fund management platform housed within a single custodian relationship. »