Ramius, the global investment management business of Cowen Group, has partnered with Quadratic Capital to launch an options-based, fundamental global macro strategy. Quadratic Capital employs liquid options and swaptions across asset classes and seeks to deliver an absolute return, fundamental
RWC Partners is planning to launch a convertible bond fund in January to take advantage of pricing anomalies in the convertible bond asset class.
Wolf Hedge, a management company for Seven Sages Long Short Fund, has launched its second fund, Wolf Hedge Global LP. The fund’s registration has been filed in Delaware and the Cayman Islands. Wolf Hedge will be taking subscriptions of
Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI) completed its initial offer period in early September, and has now taken the first step to deploy the fund’s assets into bitcoins. Recent price weakness has been observed and attributed to a series of
Apparently unscarred by the Amaranth Advisors fiasco, the trader whose natural gas trades triggered the collapse of the Connecticut hedge fund manager nearly two years ago is back in busin
UBS Asset Management has added its Xtra Yield strategy to the firm’s Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV by a launching a UCITS compliant version of the fund reported Citywire Global this week. Investors can choose from four different strategies in the UBS Strategy
Sussex Partners has signed an agreement with Credit Suisse to introduce the Credit Suisse (Lux) Small and Mid Cap Alpha Long/Short Fund to selected clients in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the UK and the Netherlands. The agreement between Sussex Partners and Credit Suisse
London-based fund manager Rudolf Wolff, a long-standing name in the City thanks to its eponymous founder being one of the founders of the London Metal Exchange in 1877, is looking for a buye
Abbey Capital has launched The Abbey Capital Futures Strategy Fund (ABYIX), the firm’s first liquid alternative mutual fund designed for US investors. The fund offers access for individual and professional investors to participate in an actively managed fixed income, foreign
JP Morgan Asset Management this week rolled out an Emerging Markets Multi-Asset fund to invest primarily in debt and equity instruments
