Absolute return (AR) strategies appear to be gaining acceptance and momentum among financial advisers, according to the Brinker Capital’s Q4 Brinker Barometer survey. Almost half (48 per cent) of advisers said they already use AR strategies in their client portfolios,
Alter Domus has opened two offices in Belgium and Malta. Dominique Robyns, chief executive of Alter Domus, says: “As a preferred provider of outsourced administration services adapted to institutionals and alternative investment funds as well as to corporate and private
Richard Bonnor-Moris (pictured), Head of Multi-Asset Solutions at Newscape Capital comments on the credit downgrade of the UK by Moody’s… The credit downgrade of the UK by the Moody’s rating agency is unlikely to make a great deal of difference
Ruth Lea (pictured), Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses the downgrade to Britain’s debt rating, the latest public finances data and the Bank’s February Inflation Report.… Moody’s downgraded Britain’s sovereign debt rating from Aaa to Aa1, which was
With changes afoot in the attitude of governments and regulators to compensation and incentivisation packages, Martin Cornish (pictured left) and Mark Silveira (pictured right) of Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish LLP outline the series of steps alternative investment firms need to
Hedge fund investors expect continued growth in 2013, and are predicting alternative investment industry AUM to reach an all time high of USD2.5trn by year end with net inflows of USD123bn, according to the 11th Deutsche Bank Alternative Investor Survey.
CFA UK’s latest Valuations Index, which measures investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold, indicates a risk-off mentality amongst investors in Q2 2018, with those polled seeing most value in safe haven assets. According to the Index,
Global hedge fund flows were positive in July, with investors adding an estimated USD5.85 billion to funds around the world and bringing overall industry AUM to USD3.307 trillion, according to the July eVestment 2018 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. However,
Nuveen Investments, a provider of investment services to institutions and high-net-worth investors, has completed the initial public offering of the Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund. The fund will invest primarily in a diversified portfolio of commodity futures and options contracts. The
Quintillion fund administration has been chosen to provide administration services to the fund managed by Paris Capital, the Paris Capital Relative Value Fund, which launched on 1 August 2010. Mahmoud Faghihi, chief operating officer at Paris Capital, says: “We selected
