Paul Kirkby, and his experienced investment team, are joining Martin Currie in a deal that also sees the firm acquire – subject to regulatory approval – the existing, Cayman domiciled, USD167 million RIT PK Japan Fund. Once the necessary approvals
Wunder Capital has launched its second investment fund, The Wunder Bridge Fundm which is aimed at accredited individual and institutional investors looking for a targeted 11 per cent rate of return with the backing of Wunder’s financing and implementation model.
Sankaty Advisors, the credit affiliate of hedge fund firm Bain Capital, is to acquires the management contracts for four portfolios of collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) totalling USD1.6 billion of assets from Regiment Capital Advisors. Financial terms of the deal have
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 1.09 per cent in October. The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Multi-Strategy Index, which includes both single and multi-manager funds, ended the
After posting negative returns throughout Q3, the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund Benchmark returned to positive territory in the first month of the final quarter of the year with a gain of 2.07 per cent in October. All top-level strategies and
Global Macro and CTAs outperformed the hedge fund space and delivered positive returns last week amidst difficult market conditions. We reaffirm our overweight stance on these two strategies.
Celoxica, a provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, has extended its Celoxica Feed Handler and Gateway portfolio to further support Interest Rate Markets by including the BrokerTec and Nasdaq eSpeed
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, is to introduce locational spot products on 17 November 2015, supporting the physical balancing of French Transmission System Operators (TSO) and German Market Area Manager (MAM). As a result, GASPOOL and
Tokyo-based hedge fund manager Sparx Group has launched the Sparx OneAsia Long Short UCITS Fund, a Pan-Asia market neutral strategy, on the MontLake UCITS Platform. A subsidiary of the long established Sparx Group, Sparx Asia Investment Advisors is based in
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), a nonprofit organisation for investors and professionals in the alternatives industry, has raised USD1.36 million for 100WHF Foundation to support its Celebrating Education – Investing in the Next Generation initiatives. The announcement was made at
