Willem Sels (pictured), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank on how recent data still points to a soft landing scenario in China… In recent months, concerns have increased that China will experience a hard landing and that
Gottex Fund Management’s entire product line posted positive performance for March year to date, according to the firm’s trading statement for Q1 2013. Total fee-earning assets for the group decreased by 9.0 per cent to USD6.41bn compared to USD7.0bn
Keith Wade, Chief Economist at Schroders, looks beyond the near term cyclical challenges and considers what the Eurozone needs to do to ensure its long term viability… Divergence rather than convergence • One of the fault lines to address was
Amid growing concerns about water scarcity and climate change globally, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) is to work with CERES, America’s largest coalition of investors and environmental groups, and Water Asset Management LLC to conduct the first study of the impacts of
TCA Fund Management Group is planning to float the TCA Global Credit Fund through an AIM IPO as a new London listed, closed-end investment company. The IPO will be structured as a feeder fund and aims to raise USD25m, marketed
FPP Asset Management, London has appointed Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services to provide administration and trustee services to its new Irish domiciled UCITS fund, Fabien Pictet and Partners Global Funds PLC which was launched in September 2009. The fund is
Sturgeon Ventures, the regulatory incubator, has launched the Clerkenwell Matterhorn Fund, an absolute return, open-ended long/short fund with a long bias. It will target a net total return of five to 15 per cent per annum by investing in real estate
Fitch Ratings says the fund of hedge fund industry is still in reconfiguration despite being on course to register the best annual performance in ten years. Industry consolidation, decreased assets under management and changes in the rankings of FoHF managers
Joel Copp-Barton, European Equities Product Director at Invesco Perpetual, shares his views on Europe’s recovery… Recent Purchasing Managers Index data is questioning the speed at which Europe can recover. The uncertainty caused by Italy failing to elect a government and
The RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of 2.20 per cent for the month of September, bringing the year-to-date return of the index to 17.44 per cent. These returns are estimated and will be finalised by the middle
