Limmat Capital Alternative Investments has been appointed to manage a large balanced fund mandate with assets under management of EUR196m. Limmat Capital is an independent FINMA regulated investment management firm in Zurich, Switzerland, specialising in liquid long/short equity and balanced

Credit Suisse’s asset management division has entered into an alliance with Reservoir Capital Group, a privately held investment firm, to seek attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Luxembourg The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg became in a few decades one of the leading locations for investment funds, being today the world’s second fund centre, overtaken only by the USA. Since 1959, when the first fund was established, the

The Ernst and Young New Zealand Absolute Return index surged to a new high in November, gaining 1.502 per cent for the month, bringing year-to-date performance to 17.597 per cent and ye

As the Securities and Exchange Commission and its (outgoing) chairman Christopher Cox agonise publicly over what they might have done to uncover the fraudulent activities of Bernard Madoff

Agcapita Partners has opened the Agcapita Farmland Fund III to investors.   Agcapita Fund III is the only RRSP eligible farmland fund in Canada and is a CAD20 million offering. Farmland has been demonstrating its unique features as an asset

Investor restrictions Irish Funds are not required to have a minimum number of investors, however, on the whole, Irish regulated tax transparent funds must, depending on the category of fund, and the specific wording of the legislation, be offered directly

In June the stock market ended the semester with a limited but positive return on the S&P 500 index, up 0.20 per cent, a reasonable figure after three months of significant growth a

The international derivatives exchange Eurex has expanded its product range to include the agricultural derivatives asset class.