Alternative asset management firm Armajaro Asset Management has launched a fourth commodity hedge fund: the Armajaro STS Commodities Fund. The fund is a systematic, trend-following commodities fund which invests in liquid exchange-traded commodity derivatives including base metals, precious metals, energy
Azad Zangana, European Economist at Schroders, cautions against expectations of a swift UK recovery. Preliminary estimates of GDP growth for between October and December 2009 showed the UK economy grew by 0.1%, ending the longest and deepest recession since the
What is the connection between family offices and investment funds? Joe Truelove, Director at Carey Group, explains why both increasingly need each other and the benefits to be gained from the convergence… What exactly is a family office? There is
A group of investment funds has filed a lawsuit against Porsche Automobil Holding and two of Porsche’s former executives, Wendelin Wiedeking and Holger Haerter, seeking to recover over USD1bn in losses suffered as Porsche attempted a takeover of Volkswagen in
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2014 measured 4.32 per cent, up from 3.23 per cent in April. “Forward redemptions increased for the month of May, with the bulk of activity representing typical semi-annual requests,” says Bill Stone,
The Austrian Government intends to hold its third EU allowance auction on 23 March for 300,000 EUAs, within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, on the Climex Platform. For compliance companies under the EU ETS it is opportunity to become acquainted
Australian hedge funds rose by 1.11 per cent in December taking their return for the year to 17.41 per cent, according to Australian Fund Monitors. Equity based funds rose by 2.08 per cent in December, up 24.66 per cent for
In the wake of the investment scandals, market dislocations and regulatory scrutiny of the past year, transparency and liquidity risk have surpassed poor performance as the top concerns for institutional investors investing in hedge funds, according to a survey from
Alternative assets under administration (AUA) stood at USD6.862 trillion at the end of 2014, compared to USD5.873 trillion at the end of 2013, according to eVestment’s Alternative Fund Administrator Survey 2015. For the report, eVestment surveyed administration firms serving hedge
IntercontinentalExchange Group’s Liffe is to introduce futures based on the FTSE 100 Equally Weighted Net Total Return Index. Following regulatory approval, Liffe will launch the industry's first futures contract on the FTSE 100 Equally Weighted Index on 27 May 2014
