Both the number of Alternative UCITS funds and assets under management grew in the first quarter of 2013 according to the Alceda Quarterly UCITS Review, produced by leading independent structuring specialist Alceda Fund Management S.A. Tracking the Absolute Hedge Global
SEB, one of Scandinavia’s leading financial institutions, has welcomed German equity specialist, Frankfurt-based
Single manager alternative UCITS attracted EUR746million in net inflows in Q3 according to the latest quarterly compiled by MondoAlternative. Interestingly, despite weekly liquidity funds only representing 21.7 per cent of the fund universe monitored by the firm, they attracted the
ESMA publishes today the final report on the guidelines on risk measurement and the calculation of the global exposure for certain types of structured UCITS (ESMA/2011/112). The report contains the policy approach agreed by ESMA, the cost-benefit analysis, the feedback
GFI Group has agreed to acquire certain assets of Phoenix Partners Group, an independent inter-dealer broker operating mainly in the international credit and equity markets. As part of the transaction, GFI will be taking on approximately 32 brokers (divided
Deutsche Bank and Financial Risk Management (FRM) have announced a partnership to launch the industry’s first hedge fund seeding managed account platform. The dbalternatives Discovery platform, based on Deutsche Bank’s established and award winning dbalternatives managed account platform, extends
March proved to be a challenging month with the majority of alternative UCITS strategies delivering negative returns. According to figures released by Geneva-based Alix Capital, provider of the UCITS Alternative Index Global which tracks more than 700 single-manager funds, the
Global hedge fund heavyweight Och-Ziff, with approximately USD29billion in AUM (as of 1 April, 2011), has teamed up with Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) to laun
Former Liontrust Asset Management CEO Nigel Legge’s new firm Vinculum has launched the IM Vinculum Global Equity fund, a Ucits-compliant product.
RiverCrest Capital, the absolute return firm established by Sir John Beckwith’s Pacific Investments last year, has launched its second offering with the
