Chicago-based investment research provider Morningstar says June marked a bad end to a good quarter for hedge fund performance.
Four third party administrators (TPAs) have selected Calastone for automated re-registration. Bank of New York Mellon and Northern Trust are now live with the service, IFDS will go live with its fully automated re-registration service later this month, and Capita
Meadowbrook Capital Management, a hedge fund manager with offices in New York and Chicago, has launched its second fund, the Meadowbrook Beta Neutr
Managed futures continue to perform strongly in 2008, gaining 1.89 per cent in June and posting an average return of 8.88 per cent for the first ha
Dallas-based Highland Capital Management has announced that as part of the firm’s continued international growth, it will open an Asia-Pacific regional office in Singapore next month heade
Veteran high-yield portfolio manager William M Nelson has assumed portfolio management of the Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund, effective immediately. He takes over fund from Bryan C Krug, who had managed the fund since its inception and is leaving to
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an emergency order that it says is designed to enhance investor protection against so-called ‘naked’ short selling in the securities of mo
UCITS funds recorded net outflows of EUR15billion in September (compared to net inflows of EUR15billion in August) according to the latest investment fund industry factsheet released by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). Looking at the figures in
Both gross and net monthly returns were positive in May for the Palomar Structured Credit Hedge Fund Index compiled and calculated by Palomar Capital Advisors, marking the first monthly ga
Hedge funds declined by 1.33 per cent in June, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based BarclayHedge, and are now down by 2.09 per cent over the first si
