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Vienna-headquartered Erste Group Bank, one of the largest financial services companies in Central Europe with over 17mill
Societe Generale Securities Services is launching a services offering, aimed at asset managers, which will take charge of the regulatory measures involved in replacing the Simplified Prospectus for Ucits by the Key Investor Information document.
This offering allows SGSS’ clients to meet the new regulatory requirements by delegating responsibility to SGSS, not only for the main regulatory changes and administrative requirements, but also for the calculation of the various indicators required by the KII, such as the risk/return indicator.
Asset managers will be able to focus on preparing information about the objectives and investment policies of their funds, which is
The Matrix Asia Ucits Fund has moved net long China, believing that the late cyclical move is likely to last 12 to18 months.
Rupert Foster, manager of the fund, says much has been made this year of the imminent collapse of the Chinese stock market as the Chinese authorities try desperately to control a rampant property market and as the US harangues the Chinese about the relative weakness of the Renminbi.
When coupled with fears over bad debts arising from the unprecedented credit boom last year in China, the continued focus on fixed asset investment (growing at 27 per cent
Cantab Capital Partners, a UK-based alternative investment company, is preparing to launch the Cantab Quantitative Ucits Fund.
Cantab launched the offshore CCP Quantitative Fund in March 2007.
The CCP Quantitative Fund has had an annualised return of 13.3 per cent from inception to date and has shown very low correlation to both equities and the broad hedge fund universe.
Chief executive officer Ewan Kirk says: “Cantab’s alpha generation comes from a basket of sophisticated and robust statistical models which are risk managed using a state of the art framework implemented in an unparalleled technology infrastructure. We have a highly diversified
October saw UCITS funds deliver consistent gains, according to Swiss-based UCITS Alternative Index.
London-based Coupland Cardiff Asset Management LLP has announced plans to launch a UCITS-III compliant fund, the CC Asian Evolution Fund, in order to help investors gain exposure to A
Bank of America Merrill Lynch this week announced the launch of a basket of commodity-focused UCITS funds, the latest additions to BAML’s INVEST platform, widely regarded as one of the
Following last week’s announcement, made jointly by BlueCrest and Merrill Lynch’s board of directors, to shutter the BlueTrend managed futures UCITS, the firm is now apparently l
High-alpha asset management firm, RWC Partners, have confirmed that Peter Allwright
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched its commodity alpha and beta family of Ucits III funds: the MLCX Commodity Enhanced Beta Fund; the MLCX Agriculture Optimal Crop Fund; and the MLCX Commodity Alpha Fund.
Forming part of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Invest platform, all three Ucits-compliant funds offer solutions for commodity investors looking to achieve beta and/or alpha exposure to commodity markets.
The funds track underlying indices created by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
The MLCX Commodity Enhanced Beta Fund and MLCX Agriculture Optimal Crop Fund offer investors a long only diversified exposure to commodity markets with
