Hewitt Associates, a consulting and outsourcing company, says that with hedge funds posting the strongest returns in over a decade its manager research team performed more than twice the number of hedge fund manager searches during 2009 than the previous
Castle Hill Asset Management, a UK and US-based investment manager, has selected LaCrosse Global Fund Services to provide daily fund administration and outsourced middle- and back-office operations to its newest fund, the Castle Hill Total Return Fund. Castle Hill is
Crystal Capital Partners, a provider of hedge fund services, has launched onshore and offshore investment vehicles. The funds are designed to segregate the assets, liabilities, liquidity and investment terms of each customized hedge fund portfolio from other portfolios in the
The Absolute Insight Emerging Market Debt Fund has grown to over USD1 billion as at 31 March, with new flows driven by significant client interest in an absolute return approach to emerging market debt investment. The manager of the fund
Combining its macroeconomic expertise and global stock selection capabilities into a single solution for investors, Scout Investments (Scout) has introduced the Scout Global Equity Fund (SCGLX), an all-cap global core equity portfolio of high conviction investment ideas. The no-load Scout
Genzo Kimura, Economist, SuMi TRUST, looks at whether Japan can finally move out of deflation… Much scepticism remains among foreign investors as to whether Japan will ever be able to move out of deflation. However, recent GDP statistics released by
The hedge fund industry is showing signs of a recovery from the crisis and this is likely to continue in the near term, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new Industry Outlook on this sector. However, the rating agency says
The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage has been registered for public distribution in Germany. The fund obtains returns for the investors from both backwardation (the expiring futures contract is more expensive as the next delivery month) and contango. The strategy commodity
NewAlpha Asset Management has announced the fifth and final incubation partnership between French seeding fund Emergence Performance Absolue and BlueHive Capital. Like its previous two investments, Emergence invested at the inception of the BlueHive Opportunities – Global Alpha, giving it
Blacksquare Capital and Investment Fund Services Limited have launched the IFSL Blacksquare Multi-Manager Absolute Return Fund of Funds, which will start trading on 1 February 2010. The fund’s objective is to deliver positive absolute returns which are uncorrelated to stock
