The Securities and Exchange Commission has established comprehensive arrangements with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as part of a long-term strategy to improve the oversight of regulated entities that operate across
Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has approved a tax agreement between Switzerland and Germany that will give Swiss securities funds (SSFs)
Man Group’s GLG Partners is to launch the GLG European Equity Alternative (the fund), a UCITS version of its successful GLG European long-short strategy. Managed by Pierre Lagrange (pictured), partner and co-founder of GLG, Simon Savage, a specialist in
The newly launched EMERGENCE seeding platform, created in early 2012 with the backing of seven major French institutional investors and managed by internationally recognised seeder NewAlpha Asset Management, has announced its first seeding partnership with Eiffel Investment Group, through its
Fitch Ratings said in a recent report that uncertain market liquidity or the inability to fully deploy leverage may make some credit hedge fund-like strategies less than compatible with a UCITS structure. The agency says many credit hedge fund strategies
Fund information provider Morningstar has dropped its use of ‘Absolute Return’ to classify UCITS funds available in Europe and Asia and replaced it with 18 new classifications re
Old Mutual Asset Managers is preparing to launch a new UCITS fund for manager Simon Murphy in the fourth quarter this year, subject to regulatory approval.
London-based LNG Capital is preparing to launch a UCITS-compliant version of its flagship LNG Europa Credit Fund reported HFMWeek this week.
Alternative UCITS funds continued to pare back gains made in the first two months of the year.
