BNY Mellon Investment Management has launched the BNY Mellon Absolute Insight Fund, an Irish domiciled UCITS absolute return fund with daily liquidity. The fund is managed by Insight Investment. Working in partnership, BNY Mellon and Insight have developed a
Conservative Concept Portfolio Management (CCPM) in Bad Homburg has launched a new balanced fund, broadening the existing portfolio of absolute return funds. Together with Universal Investment, the TriStone UI Fund was launched as a UCITS mutual fund in April 2014.
BlackRock this week launched a new absolute return fund for European institutional investors. The BlackRock Multi-Strategy Absolute Return Fund is the firm’s first UCITS-compliant multi-strategy alternative fund in Europe. Ingo Heinen, Head of BlackRock Alternative Investment Strategies in Europe, said that
BlackRock has launched an absolute return fund for institutional investors in Europe to meet an expected increase in demand for regulated and liquid alternative investments. The BlackRock Multi-Strategy Absolute Return Fund is the firm’s first UCITS-compliant multi-strategy alternative fund in
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched ManCo by SGSS, a management company solution to assist asset managers seeking access to the European market to set up and market UCITS. 
 In July 2011 the UCITS IV Directive established a
State Street Corporation announced this week that it was expanding its relationship with EARNEST Partners to provide a full suite of servicing solutions for the firm’s new UCITS funds. EARNEST Partners, which currently advises on more than USD20bn in assets
Morgan Stanley this week announced the launch of a new ETF, the MS Scientific Beta Global Equity Factors UCITS ETF on its FundLogic platform. The ETF provides exposure to the Scientific Beta Developed Multi-Beta Multi-Strategy Equal-Weight Index and is the
Alternative UCITS funds returned 0.75 per cent on average in May according to the latest figures released by Alix Capital, provider of the UCITS Alternative Index Global. Every strategy, with the exception of volatility, produced positive returns. The best performing
Alceda Fund Management SA this week announced a new fund on its Alceda UCITS Platform (AUP). The CCMG Navigator – Tactical Fixed Income Fund, managed by Philadelphia-based Clark Capital Management Group, Inc. The Lux-domiciled fund continues the strategy of the
Lord, Abbett & Co LLC ("Lord Abbett"), an independent investment management firm, this week announced that it had launched Passport Portfolios to provide non-US institutions and non-US resident investors with access to select Lord Abbett fixed income investment strategies through
