Pictet Asset Management (Pictet AM) has expanded its Total Return fund range with the launch of PTR-Agora, an equity market neutral fund with a long/short investment approach. The fund managers aim to identify catalysts that will have an impact on
Preqin evaluates investor appetite for liquid alternatives and managed account structures, and examines the reasons behind investors’ growing interest in these specialized structures, based on the results of surveys with 100 institutional investors in hedge funds and 150 hedge fund
Privium Fund Management has launched the Privium Sustainable Alternatives Fund, which aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in investment funds focused on sustainable alternatives. This includes micro finance funds and sustainable real estate. The fund is structured
Castle Hall Alternatives has formed a partnership with SwissAnalytics, based in Zurich, to extend the reach of the OpsDiligence online diligence platform. SwissAnalytics, founded in 2008, is a due diligence firm which has completed operational diligence on more than 400
By Ian Swallow – A framework, not an endorsement: The popularity of the UCITS ‘brand’ is beyond question and this continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the fund-management industry. Indeed, our own anecdotal experience suggests that investors outside of
“Over the first six months of this year there’s been an acceleration of AuM growth. According to our database, assets in alternative UCITS have grown by 24 per cent. This is the largest growth, in percentage terms, since we started
FinEx group has entered the commodities arena through the establishment of a specialist boutique business providing hedging and risk management services to commodity producers and consumers on a global basis. The business enterprise established through FinEx Commodity Partners will provide
Towards the end of 2013 Harcourt Investment Consulting, the alternatives arm of Vontobel Asset Management, launched a family of three funds under the moniker of “Research-Driven Strategies” (RDS). The objective of these funds was simple: to harvest strategy-specific risk premia
Last February, just before ESMA published its updated guidelines on ETFs and UCITS, Lyxor Asset Management made its first foray into the alternative UCITS space. Hand picked from its managed account platform, Lyxor launched the Lyxor/Tiedemann Arbitrage Strategy Fund, a
February proved to be a more positive month performance-wise for alternative UCITS funds with the UCITS Alternative Index Global returning 1.06 per cent. All strategies, bar two, posted positive returns. As was the case in January, the best performing strategy
