BNY Mellon, a provider of asset management and securities servicing, has maintained its position as the number one fund administrator in Ireland with assets under administration totalling USD270.4bn across 498 funds, according to Lipper’s 2010 Ireland Fund Encyclopaedia. The annual
Insch Capital Management has opened new offices and relocated the domicile of the firm to the Swiss canton of Zug. Over the last several years, Insch has experienced substantial growth in its primary business of currency investment management and has
Wells Fargo Bank has launched a fund services product line within its corporate trust services business to address customers’ fund administration needs. Wells Fargo Fund Services provides fund administration services including a full suite of back, middle and front-office products
Agecroft Partners predicts 2011 will be a very good year for flows into the hedge fund industry, despite the recent negative publicity generated from the insider trading scandal. This conclusion is based on several dominant and emerging trends identified through
Hedge funds have started 2013 on a high note, with the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index up 1.6 per cent in January thanks to positive returns from 12 of the 14 Lyxor Strategy Indices. Most of the best January performers of
The use of these enhanced parameter estimates generates a significant improvement for investors in hedge funds, according to a study by Lionel Martellini, scientific director of Edhec-Risk Institute, with Giovanni Zambruno and Asmerilda Hitaj of the University of Milano –
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for December 2012 measured 6.19 per cent, up from 5.19 per cent in November. "Expected year-end month-on-month redemptions are higher in December," says Bill Stone, chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies. “A majority
Man Group’s funds under management for the six month period to 30 September 2010 totalled USD40.5bn. This was up five per cent from the 30 June 2010 figure of USD38.5bn and ahead of the 28 September pre-close estimate of USD39.5bn.
The IM Vinculum Global Equity Fund, which charges fees only when performance exceeds a recognised investment industry benchmark, has reported a successful year of trading with a total net return of 11.23 per cent. The fund beat its benchmark in
Hedge fund managers have turned extremely upbeat on US equities, according to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers for December. About 46% of the 92 hedge fund managers the firms surveyed in the past week are bullish on the
