Alcentra Limited, one of Europe’s largest and longest established credit managers, which is majority owned by BNY Mellon (95 per cent stock holding), is launching a new leveraged loan and high yield bond fund. Alcentra European Floating Rate Income Fund
Benchmark Plus, a USD1.6bn fund of funds has launched a long/short equity tracking fund with an unusual "fee reserve" and clawback structure that has a 99 per cent correlation with the HFRI Equity Long/Short Index. The Benchmark Plus HFRI Equity
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index closed up 0.47 per cent in September as five of the seven index component strategies reported positive results for the month. Long/short equity (2.43 per cent) and event driven (1.46 per
CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) has temporarily postponed the launch of S&P 500 Variance futures, originally scheduled to begin on 4 October. The additional time will allow market participants to further prepare for the trading and clearing of S&P 500 Variance
Lyxor Asset Management has launched the Lyxor/Tudor Momentum Fund, which replicates the trend following component of the Tudor Tensor quantitative managed futures programme. The Lyxor managed account platform responds to investors’ key decision criteria: transparency, risk control and liquidity. Tudor
Cedrus Investments, a boutique investment firm, has launched two global nanotechnology indices: Cedrus Nanotechnology Index – Diversified and Cedrus Nanotechnology Index – Pure. The indices are designed to serve as benchmarks for professional investors to capitalise on the fastest growing
The Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 0.48 per cent for the month of March, with seven of the 10 sub-strategies in negative territory for the month. Managed futures was the worst performer with a return of -1.82 per
US institutions are increasing their use of highly liquid "flow" equity derivatives, but declines in asset values and a sharp falloff in hedge fund trading activity have driven down the volume of equity derivatives trades and the amount of commissions
Guernsey’s fund servicing industry rose by more than six per cent to reach 2,057 funds and sub-funds at the end of June 2009, with total net assets of USD289.4bn (GBP175.7bn), according to figures from Lipper. While total industry assets fell
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