Pictet Asset Management this week launched the Pictet-Global Flexible Allocation fund, a Lux-domiciled UCITS fund.

Last Monday saw New York-based GSB Podium Advisors launch a UCITS version of its global market neutral equity long/short strategy, prior to which it had been running solely in the form of three managed accounts. The GSB Equity Market Neutral

Managers are resisting proposed regulatory reforms that would see them no longer being able to profit from securities lending – a practice whereby shares or ot

GLG, the discretionary investment manager of hedge fund behemoth Man Group has launched a UCITS-III compliant version of its long/short financials fund reported F

Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with HAWK Quantitative Strategies – a company associated with Caxton Associates LP – to launch the third alternative single manager on its Lyxor Dimension UCITS Platform. The Lyxor/Caxton HAWK strategy Index Fund offers access

KB Associates, a consulting firm to the asset management community, has appointed Andrew Ritchie as an Executive Director.   Ritchie joins KB Associates’ London office where he will be responsible for advising asset managers on the structuring of investment funds,

JP Morgan Asset Management is believed to be preparing to liquidate its JPM Highbridge Diversified Commodities fund as a result of declining assets under management reported Citywire Global this week. The alternative UCITS fund is due to close on 7th

Guillaume Rambourg’s investment boutique, Paris-based Verrazzano Capital, has launched the Verrazzano Advantage European Fund. The UCITS-compliant fund, established in Luxembourg as a SICAV, aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing at least 80 per cent of its assets in