Alternative investment firm Hatteras Funds will host a series of forums across the US for financial advisers, home office research teams and consultants to meet the underlying hedge fund managers of the Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds. Following a similar forum
Four years after the meltdown of the US sub-prime mortgage market and the credit crunch, allocators and investors still face a market environment that stubbornly refuses to return to ‘normal’. Do market players need to learn new rules for
In anticipation of the implementation of Basel 3, which will commence in 2013, the investment guidelines prescribed for money market funds have been amended by the Registrar of Collective Investment Schemes – effective 1 July 2012. As a result of
Liontrust Asset Management PLC made a pre-tax profit of GBP1.7 million for the six months to 30 September 2011, according to the company’s latest Half Yearly report, This compares favourably with a loss of GBP3.9 million for the same period
Despite fears this year that the US municipal bond market would suffer large-scale defaults it’s held up well. Last December, banking analyst Meredith Whitney predicted hundreds of billions of dollars of defaults. So far, however, there’s only been USD2.8billion in
Ramius, the alternative investment management business of Cowen Group, has published a report on the liquid alternative investment space with a particular focus on managed futures investing. The report, co-authored by Ramius Trading Strategies chief executive officer William Marr (pictured)
After a period of “risk on” in the first quarter of 2012, the second quarter proved to be the complete opposite, says Altin, the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges. The future of the
Interdealer broker and provider of post trade and information services ICAP has launched a joint credit derivatives rating service with Rapid Ratings, an alternative rating, research and analytics firm. The new product brings together two independent sources of information to
Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Securities have launched the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index 2-4-6 Forward Blend, a gauge that measures diversified exposure to longer-dated commodity futures contracts spread across the commodity price curve. An enhanced version of the Dow Jones-UBS
