
Star manager Hugh Simon launches China-focused absolute return fund
Asian boutique firm, Hamon Asset Management, established by star fund manager Hugh Simon

Asian boutique firm, Hamon Asset Management, established by star fund manager Hugh Simon

London-based Heptagon Capital has announced plans to roll out and distribute a UCITS-III version of the Yacktman US Eq

Alternative Ucits funds saw a 70 per cent growth in net new flows in 2010 to September, and are on track to finish 2010 with EUR33bn net new inflows. This accounts for 15 per cent of total net inflows into
Trafalgar Capital Management, the London based hedge fund manager, has teamed up with industry veteran Chris Poil to launch its first Ucits regulated vehicle, the Trafalgar Quadrant Fund. The fund, a European long/short Ucits equity fund, predominately invests in UK

Skandia Investment Group has added the Liontrust Credit Absolute Return Fund to a number of its portfolios in an investment worth GBP19m. The fund, managed by Simon Thorp and James Sclater, is a Ucits III absolute return fund focused on
Gottex Fund Management has launched its Swedish multi-asset UCITS product on the Folksam unit linked platform and has opened its Scandinavian office. Gottex recently launched the Gottex GMA Balanserad Fund, a daily dealing UCITS fund, on the Folksam unit-linked platform

In a new publication entitled “Making the most of UCITS IV – A flexible approach by Management Company profile”, asset servicing provider, CACEIS, sets out the business development and restructuring opportunities for management companies under the forthcoming UCITS IV regime
A new study produced by HedgeFund Intelligence has found that the returns generated by onshore UCITS are broadly in line with their offshore hedge fund equivalents.

With UCITS assets in excess of USD5.6trillion and 59 per cent of managers with AUM of USD1billion or more running a UCITS platform (according to a recent Preqin report), Societe Generale has

Research undertaken by HFMWeek suggests that dedicated UCITS platforms could potentially