Julian Thompson (pictured), Head of Emerging Market Equities at Threadneedle Asset Management, outlines his emerging market equity outlook for Brazil. A recent trip to Brazil confirmed that the “land of the future” is presently booming. Brazil has consistently failed to
Don Seymour (pictured), founder and managing director of DMS Management and former head of investment services at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, says last week’s judgement against directors of the Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund, for failure to perform their
There’s a lot resting on this week’s Eurozone summit meeting. If Merkel et al can reach some agreement and provide concrete figures on the EFSF and bank recapitalisation it’ll go a long way to reassuring the markets. Luke Ellis (pictured),
After two positive months the Ucits HFS Index lost 1.08 per cent in May 2010 after a challenging month for the financial industry. The loss of 0.27 per cent in week one was followed by a slight win in week
Edhec-Risk Institute and Rothschild have created a research chair entitled The Case for Inflation-Linked Corporate Bonds: Issuers’ and Investors’ Perspectives. The purpose of the research chair is to support research undertaken at Edhec-Risk Institute on the benefits of inflation-linked corporate
Eiger Asset Management is planning to launch four coffee-related funds, comprising two index tracker funds, a hedge fund and a vehicle investing in the physical commodity.
Rosseau Asset Management has been ranked the number one event driven hedge fund globally by BarclayHedge for both the five and ten year periods ending 31 December 2009 with average annual compound rates of return of 25.27 per cent and
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services has launched its fourth Multiple Series Trust (MST) for investment management firms to support their mutual fund products. The fourth MST was effective as of 26 May, 2011. The newest trust, called Managed Portfolio Series (MPS),
The Candela Fund, previously managed by Olympus Capital LLP has moved to Matrix Asset Management. As part of the transition the fund has been re-named the Matrix Pan-European Equity Fund and Matrix Alternative Asset Management LLP has taken over as
The Observatoire de la Communication Financière (OCF) has launched a new and enhanced edition of it’s popular “Glossary of Financial Communication Terms”, originally published in 2004 and reissued in 2006. The new edition was presented by members of the OCF at
