The Absolute Insight Emerging Market Debt Fund has grown to over USD1 billion as at 31 March, with new flows driven by significant client interest in an absolute return approach to emerging market debt investment. The manager of the fund
Combining its macroeconomic expertise and global stock selection capabilities into a single solution for investors, Scout Investments (Scout) has introduced the Scout Global Equity Fund (SCGLX), an all-cap global core equity portfolio of high conviction investment ideas. The no-load Scout
Genzo Kimura, Economist, SuMi TRUST, looks at whether Japan can finally move out of deflation… Much scepticism remains among foreign investors as to whether Japan will ever be able to move out of deflation. However, recent GDP statistics released by
The hedge fund industry is showing signs of a recovery from the crisis and this is likely to continue in the near term, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new Industry Outlook on this sector. However, the rating agency says
The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage has been registered for public distribution in Germany. The fund obtains returns for the investors from both backwardation (the expiring futures contract is more expensive as the next delivery month) and contango. The strategy commodity
NewAlpha Asset Management has announced the fifth and final incubation partnership between French seeding fund Emergence Performance Absolue and BlueHive Capital. Like its previous two investments, Emergence invested at the inception of the BlueHive Opportunities – Global Alpha, giving it
Blacksquare Capital and Investment Fund Services Limited have launched the IFSL Blacksquare Multi-Manager Absolute Return Fund of Funds, which will start trading on 1 February 2010. The fund’s objective is to deliver positive absolute returns which are uncorrelated to stock
Asset manager Union Bancaire Privée made a net profit of CHF216m (USD209m) for the 2009 financial year. Assets under management totalled CHF75bn (USD72bn) as at 31 December 2009, against CHF100bn (USD95bn) at the end of 2008, as a result of
Recently launched operational solutions firm QT Advisors is helping a number of hedge fund clients prepare for institutional investor-led operational due diligence (ODD) reviews. QT Advisors founder Quentin Thorn (pictured) says: “Many hedge fund COOs are keen to make the
The economic downturn of 2009 severely impacted the US fundraising industry, with the amount of time taken to raise a fund increasing to an average of 18 months, twice as long as in 2005, according to a report by C.P.
