Only one of the six strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes posted net-of-fees gains in November, mirroring the monthly performance in August – the only other month this year wh
Abacus Group, a provider of IT services for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of competitor Proactive Technologies. The two companies will merge under the Abacus Group umbrella. Since its founding in 2007, Proactive has grown to service over
Fairfield Greenwich Group, a global alternative asset management firm with some USD16.4bn in assets under management, has announced the appointment of David B.
Sydney-based Ascalon Capital Managers, part of Westpac’s BT Group, has acquired a 30 per cent equity stake in Singapore hedge fund Canning Park C
Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank have built Europe’s largest fixed-income trading franchises, with each firm claiming more than 10 per cent of institutional trading volume captured acros
Dash Financial Technologies has added a new suite of real-time analytics, visualisation and reporting tools aimed at portfolio traders. The new tools are available natively in Dash360, the firm’s web-based platform that provides order-to-execution level transparency, detailing and visualising exchange
Assets under management in hedge funds worldwide rose to USD2.6trn during 2007, despite the impact of the credit crunch on investor appetites in the second half of the year, according to r
An overwhelming majority (91 per cent) of investors in alternatives believe that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will help the financial industry address pressing environmental and social issues. A quarter of them already integrate the SDGs into their investment
Financial advisors and investors are set to benefit from new Category Definitions for Alternative Funds implemented by the Canadian Investment Funds Standards Committee (CIFSC). They replace the single blanket ‘Alternative Strategies’ category, which applied to all alternative funds irrespective of
Red Kite Management, which specialises in investment in the metals markets, has announced that it is in the final stages of launching a new product under the name Hong Feng Zheng, the Chin
