Final performance for the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index has been confirmed up 1.24 per cent in April. Nine out of ten sectors posted positive performance for the month. Top performers included managed futures (+1.89 per cent), event driven (+1.89
2011 saw a total of 28 new funds join the industry’s largest individual commingled managed account platform across a range of strategies including multi-strategy, special situations, merger arbitrage, emerging market LSE, global macro and long/short credit. And this year is
Buyside firms, sellside firms and technology vendors do not all agree on what constitutes best execution, reveals a new report by capital markets consultancy GreySpark Partners. “Best Execution: the State of Play”, the third in a series of research reports
New York-based property equities fund manager Cohen & Steers has announced the appointment of Todd Voigt as a senior vice-president and portfolio manager who will lead the creation of
Apex Fund Services, a fund administration business with over USD10bn in assets under management, is opening of an office in Abu Dhabi during the second half of 2010. Approval has been received from the Department of Economic Development in Abu
Financial services firm Matrix has launched its first Ucits III fund. The Matrix Asia Ucits Fund will be one of the very few pan-Asian long/short equity funds and will be managed by Rupert Foster who has 16 years experience in
Brencourt Advisors has assumed portfolio management responsibility for Central Park Group Multi-Event Fund, a multi-strategy event-driven fund. The Fund invests in credit opportunities, merger arbitrage and equity special situations. It invests in a portfolio of "events" allocated across companies, sectors
Ernst & Young has appointed Stuart Phillips, who has extensive experience of emerging markets and the real estate sector following a number of years in Russia and Kazakhstan, as an aud
Sabre Fund Management is to launch a Ucits III fund, with daily liquidity, to allow access to the returns of its equity market neutral strategy, the Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund. The market neutral fund will invest in stocks chosen from
As the name of the conference implies, the Institutional Investor Education Benefit Forum, to be held in early May in San Antonio, Texas, seeks to build a foundation of new talent by getti
