Funds
Despite starting the year well alternative UCITS surrendered profits at the end of January according to the UCITS Alternative Index; its Global Index gaining just
Luxembourg Financial Group announced this week the launch of the first two newcits on their open-architecture Liquid Alpha
Deutsche Bank and Traxis Partners (Traxis) have launched a UCITS compliant version of the Traxis Global Equity Macro fund.
The UCITS fund, called DB Platinum Traxis Global Equity Macro, was launched on Deutsche Bank’s DB Platinum platform on 1 February 2011. The fund will be managed by Traxis in accordance with the strategy managed by Barton Biggs in a similar way to the Traxis Global Equity Macro fund, modified where needed to comply with UCITS regulations. The fund’s investment process is discretionary in nature and leverages the global insight and experience Barton Biggs has developed over 40 years of
London-headquartered systematic investment manager, Aspect Capital, has officially launched the Aspect Diversified Trends Fund.
On the back of closing its Asian hedge fund last October (RAB-Pi Asia Fund), London-based RAB Capital is very much focused on its UK managed funds as it looks to consolidate its op
A quick look at the end-of-month returns for UCITS-compliant hedge funds, as reported by US-based Hedge Fund Research in its HFRX Index, shows that macro strategies have stuttered
UK-based Blacksquare Capital has launched a multi-manager UCITS III-compliant fund that will seek to target annualised volatility of 8 per cent: one of the first ever multi-manager
Edouard Carmignac is preparing to launch his first new fund in four years, reported Citywire this week.
Newedge has been appointment by Aspect Capital as swap counterparty to the Aspect Diversified Trends Fund, a Dublin domiciled UCITs-compliant fund with daily liquidity.
Newedge Group’s UCITS III servicing capability offers comprehensive solutions to fund managers looking to launch regulated products such as UCITS-compliant investment funds. Funds using the Newedge service offering are able to use total return swaps (TRS) to create a synthetic exposure to a financial index, catering specifically for the needs of liquid systematic CTA & Global Macro investment strategies. This is in addition to the extensive synthetic prime brokerage services already offered by Newedge to
Next Generation Absolute Return, the specialised (UCITS) investment management business domiciled in Luxembourg, has received approval from the Luxembourg regulators for four new single-manager UCITS III compliant sub-funds. Additionally, the regulators have approved Next Generation Absolute Return II and its multi-manager UCITS III compliant sub-fund.
“Approval for both SICAV’s and the five sub-funds has long been anticipated and we do appreciate the care and thoroughness of the Luxembourg supervisory authorities”, says Fred Sage, managing partner of Decision Analytics Advisory Partners AG, the founder and operator of the Next Generation Absolute Return business. "The five founding partners of Decision Analytics strongly
