Liontrust Asset Management has doubled its assets under management over the past year. AUM has grown from GBP1.19bn on 30 September 2011 to GBP2.36bn on 30 September 2012 and GBP2.38bn on 12 November 2012 while Liontrust has now recorded nine
DCG Luxembourg managing director Daniela Klasén-Martin (pictured) says the new risk management requirements introduced by this year’s revision of the grand duchy’s SIF law are only the start for asset managers that fall within the scope of the EU’s AIFM
In October, after plummeting for five months, the equity market displayed astonishing versatility, with the S&P 500 index registering a positive double-digit return (+10.93%), its best monthly performance over the past twenty years, supported by a strong fall (-13%) in
MainStay Investments, a Barron’s top fund family and a New York Life company, has launched the Private Advisors Alternative Strategies Master Fund and Private Advisors Alternative Strategies Fund. The funds seek long-term capital appreciation above equity returns over a full
Hatteras Funds, a boutique alternative investment specialist providing alternative investment solutions for financial advisors and their clients, has renamed the Hatteras Multi-Strategy Fund as the Hatteras Core Alternatives Fund. The Fund’s strategies, objectives and management will not change. Renaming the
The US fiscal cliff is for now the major tail risk still on the table, says Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen, Head of Strategy at ING IM… Although there is hope that a compromise may be reached before year-end, the uncertainty keeps
PineBridge Investments, a multi-asset class investment manager, has closed its latest collateralised loan obligation (CLO), Galaxy XIV CLO. The issuance was upsized to approximately USD520m of notes and closed on 15 November 2012. The notes are secured primarily by broadly
Ramius, the investment management business of Cowen Group, is to enter into a long-term extension of its partnership with portfolio managers Norman Milner and D Richard Dowdle. Thomas W Strauss (pictured), president and chief executive of Ramius, says: “It is
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for November 2012 measured 5.19 per cent, up from 3.19 per cent in October. "In line with seasonal expectations, we had higher forward redemption requests in November due to investor rebalancing," says Bill Stone,
Fund administrator Kaufman Rossin Fund Services (KRFS) has introduced a new service designed to assist SEC-registered investment advisers of private funds in meeting their Form PF obligations. Form PF was adopted as part of a new rule which was unanimously
