Zedd Capital has launched to provide absolute return investment management services for retail investors and professional clients. The first offering is a managed account for retail and institutional investors, using a hedge fund style strategy of long-short investing in European
By James Williams – The CLO market enjoyed a resurgence of sorts in 2012 with approximately USD50billion in new issuance, overshadowing the paltry figure of around USD13billion in 2011. Much of this CLO activity remains in the US, where major
Exchange Data International’s (EDI) Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data and Security Reference Data (SRF) services are now available for purchase in AWS Data Exchange. AWS Data Exchange is a new service that allows Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to securely
Overlay Asset Management has launched the BNPP/OAM Wealth Preservation Currency Index, a joint initiative with BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking. The index will offer investors access to a “virtual world reserve currency” and will help preserve the purchasing power
With regulated real estate entities accounting for more than GBP30bn of its GBP246bn fund industry at the end of last year, Jersey is unquestionably a leading jurisdiction for the domicile and serv
The IStar Systematic Fund, backed by seeding specialist IMQubator, reconfigured its trading strategy in April 2012 and turned a negative performance into a positive return for the year, ending up at +3.24 per cent at the end of December 2012.
Thesis Fund Management, a New York-based registered investment adviser, has launched The Flexible Fund which combines hedge fund and mutual fund characteristics. The fund is available on the majority of mutual fund platforms including Fidelity and Charles Schwab. The fund
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping the alternative investments landscape, but professional financial managers still make the most pivotal decisions. That’s the conclusion of the latest Barclay Hedge Fund Manager/Investor Survey, a quarterly report on the sentiments of professionals
Investment research provider Morningstar has launched the Morningstar Rating for hedge funds as well as the Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index and 17 indices based on the Morningstar Hedge
The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 1.22 per cent in March, according to Dr Jordan Drachman, head of alternative beta strategies at Credit Suisse. The merger arbitrage strategy was the strongest performer for the month, finishing
