Returns for the Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Indices suggest that hedge funds produced positive returns across strategies in July generating their strongest performance to date in 2010. The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 3.12 per cent
NYSE Euronext has reported net income of USD184m or USD0.70 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2010, compared to a net loss of USD182m or USD0.70 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2009. Results for
The fund has achieved more than quadruple the amount in total returns than would have been achieved by an investor placing money in an overnight deposit during the same period.
The Qbasis Futures Fund, the first managed futures exchange-traded fund, has been given the go-ahead by the Financial Services Authority to be marketed in the UK. Originally launched on 1 April on the Hamburg stock exchange, the Qbasis Futures Fund
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 1.30 % in January. The top performing strategies over the month were Lyxor Special Situations Index (+3.60%), Lyxor L/S Equity Long Bias Index (+3.00%) and Lyxor Fixed Income Index (+2.56%). The Lyxor Hedge
We are conducting a survey of the Hedgeweek readership to assess the best hedge fund performers and service providers during 2011 in a range of categories covering the entire hedge fund space. Managers and service providers are welcome to nominate
The most significant recent development in the growth of the Asian hedge funds industry is that global institutional investors are increasing their
For an executive from a Jersey hedge fund administration firm, Gary Clark is remarkable sanguine about the island’s launch at the beginning of next year of a new category of funds that come with no
The market volatility over the course of 2007 to 2009 has challenged long-held tenets of asset allocation, including investors’ reliance on portfolio construction and risk models centred on average market behaviour and normal return distributions, a report by State Street
