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Susanne Sorge will be joining RWC Partners at the end of October.
Sorge joins from GLG Partners where she was responsible for business development in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
RWC Partners has developed a presence in the region over the last four years.
Sorge, who has been with GLG Partners for four years, has experience in the development of both absolute return and Ucits III funds. At RWC Partners, Sorge will report to head of business development Dan Mannix.
Sorge’s appointment follows the recent announcement that Peter Allwright and Stuart Frost will join from Threadneedle in October to
UCITS delivered positive returns to investors for the third consecutive month in September.
Concerns are being raised among Europe’s fund managers surrounding the costs of producing the two-page non-technical Key Investor Information Document (KIID), w
HSBC Global Asset Management has announced it intends to launch a 200 per cent levered UCITS version of its EUR623 millio
Merchant Capital, one of the world’s leading UCITS service providers, has confirmed the addition of a third fund on
Merchant Capital, a Ucits umbrella provider to the hedge fund industry, is launching the third fund on its platform – the Merchant Global Resources Ucits Fund.
The fund will employ an absolute return equity strategy with a long-biased approach to investing in global resources.
It has targeted a launch date in October with approximately USD15m in assets under management. Initial capital has been raised from a combination of European institutional and private investors.
Tal Lomnitzer will manage the fund, advised by Mark Latham at Commodity Intelligence. Lomnitzer has 12 years’ buy-side experience in global resources, including three years at
A working paper on Ucits regulation has found no conclusive evidence that less regulated hedge funds outperform alternative Ucits funds on a risk adjusted basis, even though they find some cross-sectional evidence.
The paper was published by Nils S. Tuchsmid and Erik Wallerstein from the Haute Ecole de Gestion in Geneva, and Louis Zanolin from NARA Capital.
The working paper is one of the first to evaluate and compare the performance of hedge fund-like strategies wrapped under the Ucits regulation with less regulated hedge funds.
The authors found a significant difference in level of risk between hedge funds and alternative
Geneva-based Pictet Funds, the fund management arm of Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, has announced plans to launch a new UCITS fund that will aim to capture secular growth across the G
London headquartered investment advisor, Park Place Capital Ltd., is to roll out a UCITS
