Hedge fund performance was dragged lower last week by high beta strategies such as L/S Equity and Special Situations, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Low beta strategies such as Merger Arbitrage, Relative Value
A survey released by Naisscent Capital, a Swiss FoF manager, has found that the number of alternative Ucits funds available to investors has exceeded 1,000 reported Financial News thi
This year, in the traditional equity L/S strategy category one fund has stayed consistent: Fidelity International’s Fidelity Active Strategy (FAST) Europe 1 EUR ACC fund.
RiverNorth Capital Management (RiverNorth), an investment management firm specialising in opportunistic strategies, has launched the RiverNorth Opportunistic Municipal Income Fund, a new municipal bond-focussed closed-end fund. RiverNorth will act as the investment adviser to the fund, and MacKay Shields will
London-based RMG Wealth Management is apparently planning to launch its inaugural UCITS fund for UK clients before year-end reported FT Adviser this week.
RMF, a core investment manager of Man Investments, has agreed a seeding arrangement with the CCC Carbon Fund. The fund is an investment vehicle that acquires emissi
Alternative investment manager Coast Asset Management has sold a minority ownership interest to private equity and venture capital firm Summit Partners. Summit Part
Lionhart (Middle East), part of an alternative investment management group that specialises in global multistrategy arbitrage, has gained regulatory approval from the Dubai Financial Servi
Global asset manager MitonOptimal has launched a new Dublin-domiciled DFM fund range offering international IFAs access to the company’s asset allocation and manager selection in a unitised fund vehicle. The new funds comprise three risk-rated portfolios: Cautious, Moderate & Growth
The era of the baby boomer – a loosely defined term, but usually understood to encompass those born during the post-World War II baby boom between 1946 and the early 1960s – is coming to a
