Funds
London-headquartered RAB Capital has launched a UCITS III-compliant version of its Cayman Island-domiciled RAB Europe fund (RAB Prime Europe UCITS), which will
Deutsche Bank and Lynx Asset Management have launched a UCITS III compliant version of the Lynx fund. The DB Platinum IV Lynx Index. which was launched on Deutsche Bank‟s DB Platinum IV platform in February 2011, is managed by Lynx, part of Brummer & Partners group in Stockholm, in accordance with the systematic strategy applied by the Lynx programme and offers daily liquidity.
The Lynx UCITS III fund is managed by Jonas Bengtsson, Svante Bergström and Martin Sandquist. As of February 2011, the programme assets of Lynx were USD3.3bn.
Deutsche Bank’s global head of the dbSelect platform, Hans Jacob Feder,
Most classical hedge fund strategies are in large demand in a UCITS format, according to ML Capital Asset Management, the investment manager and promoter of the MontLake UCITS platform.
The MLC Alternative UCITS Barometer, a tool that surveys active investors currently allocating to UCITS about their forthcoming strategy allocations, revealed that most of the primary “UCITS-able” hedge fund strategies are to see large inflows in the coming months.
Global Macro Discretionary strategies are expected to experience the largest inflows of capital in the coming months, with 59 per cent of respondents planning to increase their exposure to the asset class.
The brains behind a computer model designed to run an option replication strategy for the Nordea 1 – Heracles Long/Short MI fund, Nader Purschaker, has left Met