With its biggest market, the UK commercial property sector, in the doldrums for more than a year and the credit crunch casting a baleful shadow over large swathes of the global investment industry,

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has for the first time registered its SICAV funds for distribution in Germany. The funds received their German registration on 3 July 2014.   “We are delighted that we are expanding in one of

With close attention being paid to the ability of fund of hedge funds managers to pick underlying funds that continue to prosper in more volatile market conditions, investors are increasingly exami

Horizon Cash Management, a cash manager for alternative investment funds, has announced that the firm has captured more than USD600m in new assets within the last quarter.

GLG Partners, Europe’s third largest hedge fund manager with more than 40 funds and USD20bn in assets under management, has announced plans to access the US public markets through a revers

The Blackstone Group has announced that Aaron Nieman will head Blackstone Altius Advisors, a new event-driven strategy focusing on opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region and managed by a

The adoption of the Ucits III structure and changes to UK tax law have provided an attractive opportunity for many offshore hedge funds to launch UK onshore, regulated funds allowing managers to imple

Absolute return funds, retail investment vehicles that take advantage of the European Ucits III funds legislation to use derivatives and other hedge fund-like techniques, suffered an ‘abso

Green cap and trade markets that are currently trading on a voluntary basis in Chicago and New York could become the largest of all commodity markets, according to Commissioner Bart Chi

Canada’s hedge funds may be growing at a sluggish pace – the number of funds and their total assets grew by only some 5 to 7 per cent over the past year, according to industry tracker Canadian Hedg