Acropole Asset Management, a Paris-based specialist convertible bond manager launched 18 months ago and now with EUR600m in assets under management, has extended its range of products with
All seven of IndexIQ’s proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indices produced negative returns in August. The IQ Hedge Emerging Markets Beta Index was the worst performer with a return of -1.90 per cent followed by
The US Futures Exchange has announced plans to list the first credit derivative futures on Federal Agency debentures, beginning with a government tranche of the CDX index including credit
Hedge funds gained 10.40 per cent in 2007 according to year-end data compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based Barclay Hedge, nearly double the 5.49 per cent return of the S&P 500 Total Return
Smart money is a term often used and mostly misunderstood.
Asian distressed debt specialist 3 Degrees Asset Management has spun off from Finansa PCL to become an independent firm wholly owned by its founder, Moe Ibrahim, and has also completed the
Long overshadowed by the sheer scale of the islands’ corporate domicile and administration business, the funds industry in the British Virgin Islands – mostly consisting of hedge funds, along
The consolidation trend in hedge funds was off to a flying start this year.
The success of the British Virgin Islands hedge fund industry in recent years can be measured by the fact that it has now overtaken Bermuda to become the world’s second largest offshore domicile fo
Palmer Square Capital Management, a provider of structured credit, corporate credit and hedge fund strategies, has closed on its second collateralised loan obligation (CLO) in the last six months. Palmer Square CLO 2013-2, which closed on 17 September, is
