London-based CF Partners (UK), an environmental finance firm specialising in carbon advisory and trading, is launching a carbon emissions hedge fund strategy. The CF Carbon Fund adopts a relative value and arbitrage-based approach to trading carbon and the correlation of
Steep performance losses and record investor capital redemptions reduced the size of the hedge fund industry by USD210bn in the third quarter, the largest three-month decline in assets sin
SGAM Alternative Investments is on target to reach USD 7 billion in hedge fund assets under management this year, an increase of 70 per cent. Arié Assayag, Global H
Last month hedge funds reported the worst losses since the Morningstar Hedge Fund Index was launched in January 2003, with a decline of 7.87 per cent for the Morningstar 1000 index, more t
Fairfield Straits Lion Asset Management Limited (FSL) has added Australian exposure to its offerings with the launch of a new absolute return hedge fund. The Fairf
AllianceBerstein, the global asset management firm with some USD406billion in assets under management, has launched a s
The Reserve Funds’ Reserve Yield Plus Fund has received both a AAAf rating from S&P, and a Short-Term Fund credit rating of Aaa from Moody’s. In addition, the Fund
A group of New Zealand-based alternative asset managers is hoping to see the country develop as a destination of choice for hedge funds. In a bid to raise industry
The UK Treasury has taken a step forward in its bid to maintain the country’s position as a competitive funds domicile by launching a consultation on the introduction of authorised tax-transp
Verrazzano Capital, the European equity specialist investment boutique founded by Guillaume Rambourg, has launched the Verrazzano Advantage European Fund. The fund, a UCITS-compliant Luxembourg SICAV structure, aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing at least 80 per cent of
