Total net assets of UCITS and AIFs increased by 1.7 per cent to EUR16,030 billion in February, according to The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (EFAMA) latest Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet. Bernard Delbecque, Senior Director for Economics and Research
Sydney-based Morphic Asset Management is launching a new global equity strategy on the Trium UCITS platform, employing ESG factors to generate alpha on both short and long positions. The Trium Morphic ESG L/S Fund launches on 20 February 2018, targeting
J8 Capital Management has launched the UI-J8 Global Absolute Return UCITS Fund, opening up the firm’s systematic investment strategy to an institutional as well as retail audience. The fund is now open for subscriptions and scheduled to launch on 28
Getting distribution right is crucial when launching UCITS funds. The last thing a manager wants is to struggle to grow their AUM. Not only does it look bad in the eyes of prospective investors, an inadequate marketing effort can quickly
Goldman Sachs Fund Solutions is a bespoke solutions-oriented fund investments platform that was launched in 2004 within the Securities Division. The platform, at large, provides investors with access to unique internal strategies via regulated funds (UCITS and AIFMD-compliant funds), unregulated
ML Capital is an independent European regulated fund structurer that is rightly well known for its MontLake UCITS and MontLake QIAIF platforms, the success of which has seen firm-wide AUM grow to EUR5 billion since its inception in 2009. However,
In many ways, this is just the first stage of growth for alternative UCITS. There is still a huge amount of future growth potential yet to be realised. If one looks at the supply/demand dynamics for UCITS, there are roughly
AllianceBernstein has launched the AB Alternative Risk Premia Portfolio offering institutional investors a way of accessing alternative sources of return in a systematic and cost effective manner. The strategy is designed to provide a low correlation from traditional asset classes
LRI Group, an independent investment services company, has added six new managers to its UCITS Platform, forecasting approximately EUR12 billion in Assets under Management (AuM) in 2017. Markets in 2017 have remained volatile and uncertain due to major changes affecting
Investcorp-Tages has launched a new systematic short-term UCITS fund with Eckhardt Trading Company (ETC) with USD115 million in AUM, seeded by Quilter Investors.
