EFAMA this week defended Exchange-Traded Funds in a reply to the G20’

HSBC Global Asset Management this week became the first firm to launch a CIVETS fund.

SimCorp has released a guide for investment managers to global compliance and regulations standards. With the imposition of new and updated standards such as IFRS9, Solvency II, UCITS IV and AIFMD proceeding in Europe, along with the Dodd-Frank Act in the USA, firms must ensure they are fully prepared for regulatory changes and new mandates governing the industry. Organisations must adapt and prepare their investment management systems for an evolving new regulatory playing field. In fact, many view increased regulation as the primary barrier to growth going forward.   In an attempt to alleviate the financial institutions’ struggle to overview

Ahead of the proposed launch of Castlestone Management’s Aliquot Precious Metals UCITS fund on May 31, the firm’s CEO Angus Murray has been expounding the virtues of holdi

ML Capital are certainly busy right now.

EFAMA released a report on the evolving investment strategies of UCITS this week as the popularity in “newcits” – UCITS funds that employ hedge-like strategies to achieve ab

Babson Capital Europe, the credit specialist investment firm, has hired high yield specialist Kam Tugnait reported Creditflux this week.

Para Advisors LLC a New York based event driven fund manager with a current AUM of USD350 million, will shortly launch the Para International UCITS Fund on the MontLake UCITS Platform.    The UCITS fund will be managed in the same investment style as Para’s flagship U.S. offering, an event driven multi-strategy fund that has an annualised compounded net return of 11.5% since its founding in 1991. 

John Lowry, Chairman of ML Capital says: “We are delighted that Para Advisors has chosen to partner with ML Capital to launch their UCITS Fund. The UCITS space is still vastly underserved by

SW Mitchell Capital LLP (SWMC) is launching a new fund under its recently established UCITS Irish umbrella, SW Mitchell Capital plc, subject to final approval from the Central Bank of Ireland. The fund, which is due to launch on 1 June and will offer investors access to a long/short equity strategy focused on Small and Mid Cap European equities, will be managed by Jamie Carter, investment manager and partner at SWMC, the independent investment manager specialising in European equities.   Jamie has 14 years experience in investment management. Jamie joined SWMC in July 2006 and in November 2007 launched The

DUNN Capital Management, the systematic quant-based CTA founded in 1974 by Dr.