Managers
Pictet Funds has announced this week it is launching Pictet-Environmental Megatrend Selection, a euro denominated UCITS-III compliant fund of funds.
This year, in the traditional equity L/S strategy category one fund has stayed consistent: Fidelity International’s Fidelity Active Strategy (FAST) Europe 1 EUR ACC fund.
As investors continue to see the benefits of UCITS, so the number of platforms to facilitate fund growth expands.
UK-based fund of hedge funds firm, Key Asset Management, is joining forces with one of its owners, Scandinavian bank SEB, to launch its first newcits according to HFMWeek.
US bank Morgan Stanley has become the latest player in the newcits arena by adding its first Ucits III-compliant hedge fund onto its FundLogic platform
The latest research report by Singapore-based firm, Eurekahedge, reveals that last month European hedge funds recorded th
London-based Merchant Capital has had a busy year since it launched its Merchant Funds plc UCITS-III platform at the start of the year.
Nomura announced the launch of its latest newcits – the HFRq UCITS III Fund
Frankfurt-based Universal Investments have teamed up with US hedge fund, York Asset Management, to roll out a first-in-class global merger arbitrage newcits: the York Lion Merger A
Universal-Investment and New York-based hedge fund specialist York Asset Management have launched an absolute return fund, The York Lion Merger Arbitrage Liquidity Fund UI.
The fund is based upon The Lion Fund and is the first global merger arbitrage strategy launched as a as Ucits fund in Europe.
The fund invests in daily tradable securities in both established and emerging markets. It aims at arbitrages which occur due to mergers and takeovers as well as other event driven situations.
“With our investment method we distinguish between seven different types of situations,” says Nick Walker, chief investment officer of York Asset
