Managers
2012 was a promising start for alternative UCITS funds with the UCITS Alternative Index Global gaining 1.37 per cent having fallen 3.64 per cent in 2011.
A new fund which aims to give clients access to both GAM’s investment management expertise and Barclays Capital’s quantitative stra
Total assets in Irish-domiciled funds have exceeded EUR1trillion, an all-time high, reflecting what Gary Palmer (pictured), Chief Executive of the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA)
Armstrong Investment Managers has invested into the newly launched sterling share class of the Swiss & Global JB Absolute Return Europe Equity Fund, managed by Andy Kastner, through its flagship IM Distinction Diversified Real Return Fund.
The Julius Baer Absolute Return Europe Equity Fund has delivered strong performance since it was launched at the end of September 2010. The fund has generated a return since inception of +9.9% (as of 31 December 2011) outperforming its benchmark while harnessing lower volatility compared to European markets.
The fund pursues a market-neutral long-short pair-trading strategy. Using a multi-tier process, the team led by
SEB has integrated its offering within alternative investments by merging the SEB-owned London boutique Key Asset Management unit with the SEB Alternative Investment Team (AIT) in Stockholm .
The new team will be managed by Mikael Spångberg (pictured) as Managing Director, Stockholm and Chris Rule as deputy and Chief Investment Officer, London.
The two investment teams have worked together informally for the past few years and bring different specialities to the new venture. Key has one of the oldest track records in the Fund of Hedge Funds industry while the SEB AIT brings competence within the seeding and incubation business.
The changes coincides
Finisterre Capital, the long/short emerging market total return specialist, has launched the Finisterre Equity Fund. Joint Portfolio Managers of the new fund are Alistair Candlish and Edward Cole, who joined Finisterre in August, 2011. The duo was hired as a team from Newsmith, where they were partners in the firm and jointly ran Newsmith’s EM equity fund.
Finisterre’s new fund is a global emerging market equity strategy that seeks to maximise absolute returns within a framework of reduced volatility relative to the market and peers. The fund employs a top-down macro process that seeks to gauge and predict changes
Aquila Capital’s AC Risk Parity 7 Fund has reached a four year track record of consistently positive year-on-year returns.
Available as a UCITS fund since the 5 February 2008, the Fund got off to another strong start in 2012, generating a 2.95% return in January 2012.
The AC Risk Parity 7 Fund has been recognised as the largest, and one of the top performing, quantitative funds by the UCITS Alternative Index Blue Chip (“Blue Chip Index”), comprised of 50 of the world’s top UCITS hedge funds currently open for investment. It is the fifth largest Multi Asset UCITS fund
Alfi Rogge Partners – a new joint venture between Rogge Global Partners and Alfi Partners – has established offices for marketing and client service in both Paris and Geneva in order to develop and service its business in French-speaking Europe and capitalise on the growing demand in the region for global fixed income.
Alfi Rogge Partners is aimed at providing investors in France, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland with local access to Rogge’s four core areas of expertise: Developed Markets, Investment Grade Credit, Global High Yield and Emerging Markets (Debt and Currency). In addition, Rogge has recently grown its
Eurofin Capital, the Lausanne and London based privately owned investment company has acquired NAU Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund based in London.
The Board of Eurofin Capital Ltd the London based FSA Authorised asset management company is pleased to announce that approximately EUR90 million of assets under management will be transferred to Eurofin Capital.
NAU Capital manages two separate funds, The NAU Fund and the Plurima Nau Fund and these two strategies compliment the fund of fund and single strategy funds already managed by Eurofin Capital.
The 8 man team at NAU Capital have joined Eurofin Capital and
Sal Naro, former co-managing partner of Sailfish Capital, a USD4.4 billion asset management firm with approximately USD2 billion in hedge fund assets, is launching Coherence Capital Partners LLC (Coherence Capital).
Naro was most recently a shareholder in and Vice Chairman of Jefferson National Financial Corp. and Chief Executive Officer of Jefferson National Asset Management. The creation of Coherence Capital Partners LLC is the result of a management buyout of Jefferson National’s core insurance unit. He will now be Chief Executive Officer of Coherence Capital Partners LLC, which will be a registered investment adviser.
Coherence Capital will manage traditional and
