ENSO, a provider of market intelligence and analytics for fund managers, has opened its new European headquarters in London. The office enables the firm to provide local support to its growing roster of European hedge fund and asset management clients.
Asset class performances were as hard to predict as ever during the first half of this year. While the global economic outlook has been more favorable than previously, sources of risk have shifted continuously, says Stefan Keller (pictured), head of
The Transfer Agent division for U.S. Bancorp Fund Services has announced its first quarter 2011 results from National Quality Review (NQR), including a Best-In-Class rating for NQR’s new Correspondence Composite rating. “This new benchmark allows us to gauge how
By Rosemary Wynne – One of the unique features of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) is its Membership structure. In its short history, the CISX has more than doubled its membership – from twenty-four Founder Members at the
In April, after a pause in March, the stock market resumed its strong upward trend, as illustrated by the notable performance of the S&P 500 index (+2.96%), which has significantly outperformed the hedge-fund industry over the past few months. Similarly,
Hedge fund industry leverage declined in the last 12 months, according to the HFR Leverage Report, released by Hedge Fund Research, Inc. Leverage declined as investor inflows and less volatile performance gains combined to increase global hedge fund industry assets to
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 1.80% in May. Year-to-date performance as of May 2011 is up 0.30%. The month of May was quite volatile and negative for the majority of Hedge Fund strategies. The top performing strategies
It is quite a consensus call to have an overweight position on developed market credit but, says Williams Sels (pictured), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank, this still makes a lot of sense… We would rather be
Hedge funds gave back 1.13% in May according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date, the Index remains up 1.87%. “After eight months of steady gains, the Barclay Hedge Fund Index fell back in May,” says Sol
David Miller, Partner at Cheviot Asset Management, believes that whilst austerity measures have been passed, this will not do much to soothe the nerves of investors, who will still be worried about how Greek voters will cooperate with the plans…
