iM Global Partner has acquired a 40 per cent interest in Scharf Investments, an independently owned and employee-controlled US equity value firm with USD3.4 billion in AUM as of end of March 2019. With this new acquisition in the US,
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched the Parvest Global Equity Absolute Return Strategy (Parvest GEARS), a sub-fund of the Parvest UCITS V SICAV registered under Luxembourg law. With equity valuations considered expensive at current market levels on a
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2019 measured 2.51 per cent, down from 3.49 per cent in March. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2019 of 2.51 per cent reflects a lower level of redemption notices compared with
Mirabaud Securities has launched the Mirabaud Securities Global Thematic Group, a specialist team that assesses macro themes and fundamental stock ideas to identify interesting opportunities for investors. The team is led by Global TMT Analyst Neil Campling and Head of
Hedge fund flows turned positive in February, as a January stock market rebound, hopeful signs in US-China trade talks and indications of a pause in US interest rate hikes spurred investors to reverse a five-month trend of net redemptions. The
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.60 per cent in March, outperforming the -0.17 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The
Puro – the world’s first marketplace to kick-start CO2 removal from the atmosphere – has been launched as an internal startup at clean energy provider Fortum. Puro is an experiment by a group of 23 companies and is aimed at
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 1.06 per cent in March, bringing its year-to-date return to 4.36 per cent – the strongest Q1 performance of the hedge fund industry since the global financial crisis. Roughly half of the hedge fund
Managed futures remained in positive territory in March with a 1.65 per cent return for the month according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge. March’s CTA fund performance brought managed futures back into the black for the year,
3iQ Corp has agreed to terms and conditions with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) to act as Canada’s first Portfolio Manager (PM) and Investment Fund Manager (IFM) permitted to invest in multiple crypto assets.
