Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with Dymon Asia to launch the Lyxor/Dymon Asia Macro Fund, a liquid discretionary global macro strategy with an Asian focus. As Asia becomes increasingly important in the global economic landscape, it offers a wide
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.13 per cent in September, outperforming the -0.69 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The
Independent depositary firm INDOS Financial is now offering a new ESG oversight service, which will be led by Matthew Queree, the company’s newly-appointed Head of ESG Oversight. INDOS Financial, now has USD28 billion of assets under its oversight, plus a
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Each January Agecroft Partners releases its predictions regarding the top 10 hedge fund industry trends in the coming year. One of our predictions for 2018 was an increase in hedge fund closures for both
Guernsey’s commitment to meeting international standards of transparency and exchange of information in tax matters was further underlined last week, with the signing of a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the Republic of Slovenia. Iztok Jarc, Ambassador of the
US banking giant J.P.Morgan has rolled out a new multi-strategy newcits fund, following its soft launch last month.
Reech Aim Partners, a London-based USD300m investment manager specialising in absolute return strategies, will continue expanding its suite of Ucits III-compliant offerings with the launch of a Ucits long only North American equity fund. It will be managed by the
Assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally amounted to USD4.82 trillion at the end of Q4 2018, following net inflows of USD164.84 billion and market moves during the period, according to ETFGI’s Q4 2018 Global ETF and ETP industry landscape
Investment management company DECALIA has launched a new merger arbitrage strategy which aims to generate an attractive absolute performance with low volatility, while remaining uncorrelated with conventional assets. W Capital, a specialist in this strategy, will manage the fund which
ML Capital Asset Management says the first manager to launch on the Montlake Ucits platform will be Clareville Capital Partners, the firm founded by David Yarrow. The fund will commence trading on 1 October 2010. Yarrow and Angus Donaldson will
