New Star Asset Management is making a third offering of Hedge ETS, a London listed daily tradable security.
Hennessee Group, an adviser to hedge fund investors and index provider, has reported that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index was up by 2.26 per cent in September and by 10.16 per cent for the
Merrill Lynch has agreed to purchase a minority stake in GSO Capital Partners, a New York-based registered investment management firm and will invest capital in a number of GSO’s strategie
International investment operation Prestige and specialist investment advisor Methexis Capital have launched the Commercial Finance Opportunities (CFO), a fund specialising in secured lending to private companies, in the UK. The arrival of CFO follows quickly on the announcement on 12
The European repo market stands at EUR6,076bn, according to a survey by the European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). This represents an increase of 8.6 per cent in the size of the market since the
Investors are leading the way in shaping the future of the alternative investment industry, according to a soon to be published global survey by State Street. The survey canvassed the opinions of 400 alternative fund managers from hedge funds,
By Advent Software – Although the financial markets have largely recovered from the crisis of 2008, investment managers worldwide are still feeling the fallout in one very important regard: the unprecedented wave of reform that has washed over the shores on
Draft legislation introduced last month by a US senator to reinstate registration of most hedge fund managers with the Securities and Exchange Commission could also drag managers of real e
Many small and, even medium-sized, institutional investors are uncomfortable with investing directly in single-strategy hedge funds, for a variety of reasons.
Managed futures lost 0.68 per cent in August, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is down 2.41 per cent year to date. “Many CTAs were long equity indices and got hurt in August
