Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited has licensed the Hang Seng Sector Index Series, which is comprised of six indexes, to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to serve as underlying indexes for the creation of six index futures. The
Prairie Wind Advisors is to launch its first fund, the Harvest One Fund, which is dedicated to investing in businesses involved in the agriculture, food, health and environmental industries. The fund is a total return strategy, which is domiciled in
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, is redesigning its premium FX market data service, EBS Live, and will move to streaming real-time market data. The ‘EBS Live Ultra’ feed will provide significantly improved price
S.E.A. Asset Management Pte Ltd, a boutique fund manager in Singapore, has won Best Fixed Income Credit Strategies Hedge Funds Award from institutional news publisher Hedgeweek. “In a world where historically low interest rates continue to flush the market with
RWC Partners is planning to launch its existing Asia long/short equity strategy within its Luxembourg SICAV UCITS. Subject to approval, the existing Global Innovation Absolute Alpha will change its name to RWC Asia Absolute Alpha Fund and the fund will
Total hedge fund assets fell USD64.7 billion to start 2016, a decline of 2.1 per cent, which dropped total industry assets below the USD3 trillion level for the first time since the industry first surpassed the milestone in May 2014.
Emerging markets hedge funds posted steep declines to begin 2016, as concerns about slowing growth and weakening currency in China, falling energy prices, and geopolitical risk precipitated a steep drop in risky assets globally. The HFRI Emerging Markets Index fell
As of 19 February 2016, the Skënderbeg Fund, a sub-fund of Skënderbeg Funds SICAV, has been transformed into a UCITS structure, which is designed to providing access to alternative investments in a liquid and transparent format. A statement from Skënderbeg
Hedge fund administration specialist Custom House Global Fund Services has launched a new brand interface and officially transitioned the firm to an independently-owned fund administrator, following regulatory and government approvals. As part of the brand relaunch, Custom House has introduced
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) has closed on over USD225 million in final capital commitments for Private Markets Income Fund I (PMIF). The fund’s strategy is to invest in niche income-oriented private market strategies, across primary fund commitments, co-investments
