Franklin Templeton Investments this week announced the launch of the Luxembourg-registered Franklin Euro Short Duration Bond Fund.  London-based David Zahn, head of European Fixed Income and lead portfolio manager, and Rod MacPhee, research analyst and portfolio manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed

Luxembourg’s Next Generation Absolute Return has taken the bull by the horns by deciding to launch a specialized UCITS investment management business: <

Alternative UCITS funds made advances of 0.65 per cent in September to leave them exactly +2 per cent on a year-to-date basis, according to Alix Capital’s UCITS Alternative Index Global. The best performing strategy was equity long/short, gaining +1.61 per

Neuberger Bremen has launched the Neuberger Berman Absolute Return Multi-Strategy Fund (ARMS), following the US regulated version of the same strategy launched in May 2012.  The multi-manager product targets positive absolute returns with low market exposure, through diversified allocations to

Alternative UCITS funds made gains of 0.22 per cent in June according to Alix Capital, provider of the UAI Global Index. Last month’s performance was characterized by small performance dispersion. The majority of strategies made modest gains of between 0.20

With equity markets continuing their rally into Q3 2013, the demand for alternative UCITS strategies has continued, according to the Alceda Quarterly UCITS Review. Tracking the Absolute Hedge Alternative UCITS Index, which encompasses 454 funds, assets under management reached a

Two new funds from US and UK fund managers are being launched on Alceda Fund Management’s platform the firm announced this week.

Macro Currency Group, the specialist currency investment boutique of Principal Global Investors with over USD4.3billion

GAM has given UK retail investors the opportunity to invest in its USD55million GAM GAMCO US Equity fund, wh