UK investment manager Legal & General will enter the Absolute Return sector with the launch on November 10 of a new fund, the Diversified Absolute Return Trust, which will be managed b
European equity buy-side firms are struggling to pay for research by order flow alone, with nearly two-thirds saying research will eventually be paid from management fees, forcing radical change to payment models. According to TABB in its annual European equity
The ACP Financial Opportunities Fund has beaten its benchmark by over 65 per cent in its first six months, according to its manager ACP Partners.
The hedge fund industry could well be the next big victim of the credit crunch, according to the Bank of England, which says in its latest financial stability report that in the wake of on
Société Générale Asset Management has announces the completion of the sale of its London-based long-only asset management subsidiary, SGAM UK, to London-based b
“The landscape for alternative investments is at an interesting and important inflection point,” says Michael Appenzeller. “Managers as well as investors need to cope with an unprecedented array of change.” Appenzeller is co-founder of Etops, a service company with offices
Moving to replace its outgoing star emerging-markets manager Greg Coffey, GLG Partners has tapped seasoned proprietary trader Driss Ben-Brahim from
American hedge funds reported a healthy increase in assets in this year’s first half and now manage a combined USD1.399 trillion. That’s USD102 billion, or nearly 8%, more than they managed at the beginning of the year, according to the
Guernsey’s fund administration sector is booming, and private equity is its principal driving force.
