A survey by The European Repo and Collateral Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) calculating the amount of repo business outstanding on 7 December 2016 from the returns of 65 offices of 62 financial groups, sets the baseline
EnTrust Global, one of the world’s largest hedge fund investors and a leading alternative asset manager headquartered in New York and London, has surpassed USD1.1 billion in investment capital raised for its Blue Ocean Strategy. The majority of Blue Ocean’s capital has already
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.59 per cent in January, outperforming the 0.50 per cent monthly return for the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The
The Abbey Capital Futures Strategy Fund (ABYIX), a multi-manager managed futures fund providing bi-directional exposure to equity indices, commodities, bonds, interest rates and foreign exchange through segregated managed accounts, has secured a 4-Star Overall Morningstar Rating among 96 rated Managed
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform of EEX Group, operated by Powernext, has successfully launched its OTC registration service for LNG Futures. The PEGAS JKM LNG Futures contract is cleared by ECC, the clearing house of EEX Group, and settled
After a string of strong performances this year, some hedge fund investors may be doing a bit of profit-taking, with redemptions of -USD2.9 billion from hedge funds in October, according to the eVestment October 2017 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report.
Proper fund governance has long been championed by leading offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman, which for the last decade has encouraged its hedge fund clients to hold at least annual directors meetings. Initially this was met with some
Circle Partners is an independent fund administrator with offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong. "We've seen a lot of growth in new BVI fund vehicles over the last 12 months –
"We see the funds industry as continuing to contribute to the overall offering of financial services. There remains good interest in the BVI product and we envisage that will continue," asserts Glenford Malone, Director, Investment Business Division, BVI Financial Services
The Alternative UCITS market keeps showing strong growth with LuxHedge recording net inflows of EUR5.2 billion in assets under management in January. The strongest rise occurred in Fixed Income Arbitrage (EUR2.8 billion), Global Macro (EUR0.9 billion) and Multi-Strategy (EUR0.8 billion) funds. The
