Jupiter has opened its Financials Hedge Fund to external investment. Established in May 2007, the Jupiter Financials Hedge Fund is a long/short fund that seeks to achieve steady returns, to preserve capital and limit volatility in all market conditions. It
By Nick Barisheff – In some parts of the world gold is viewed as the protector of wealth. In North America, gold is viewed as a speculative investment. Economists regard a rising gold price as an admission of defeat and
Standard & Poor’s has published the composition and weights for the 2010 S&P GSCI. The S&P GSCI is a world production-weighted commodity index which, in 2010, will be composed of 24 liquid, exchange-traded futures contracts. The S&P GSCI includes energy,
Scipion Capital, the African hedge fund manager, has launched a mining fund which allows investors to capitalise on the recovery of the junior mining and natural resources sector in Africa. The Scipion Mining & Resources Fund launched to investors on
Barclays Capital’s natural resource investments team has partnered with Richard Hall and Rory Edwards to create an oil and gas development company, Nio Petroleum, which will focus on undeveloped discoveries, marginal fields and late-life assets in South East Asia. Hall
As institutions in the UK and Continental Europe picked up the pace of their hedging activity last year, European markets for highly liquid flow equity derivatives products expanded, according to the results of Greenwich Associates’ 2009 European Equity Derivatives Investors
Prime Source, NYSE Euronext’s independent asset valuation service, has added Evolution Securities as a closing price contributor to its service. Evolution Securities is a UK independent investment bank and subsidiary of The Evolution Group, a FTSE 250 UK-based investment bank
Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Investment Bank have published the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index that will become effective in early January 2010. The commodities with the highest target weights are crude oil (14.3 per cent),
Man Investments and Credit Suisse have launched a managed accounts initiative in response to investors’ increased demands for transparency, liquidity and control. The new initiative brings together Man’s managed accounts platform and portfolio management expertise with access to Credit
Altin, the London and Swiss-listed fund of hedge funds, has reported an increase in net asset value of 11.16 per cent in the year to 28 October 2009. Its shares are up 24 per cent in the year to 22
