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Greenwich, Connecticut CTA manager, Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, founded in 1971, has chosen Deutsche Bank’s Platinum platform
- 12/06/2011
Fixed Income and Multi-Strategy were the only UCITS strategies that managed to generate positive returns in what proved to be a tricky month of May.
- 12/06/2011
Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management, the Swiss investment manager with over USD418billion in asset under management and custody, this week launched a UCITS III-comp
- 12/06/2011
Paris-based investment manager, Bernheim Dreyfus, ventured into the Newcits space last week by launching a UCITS III-compliant fund that will focus on mergers and acquisitions.
- 12/06/2011
- 12/06/2011
The Swiss banking group SYZ & CO has appointed Katia Coudray Cornu (pictured) as Head of SYZ Fund Research, its funds analysis and manager-selection department. The mission of SYZ Fund Research is to identify new themes and emerging talent, with a view to launching new sub-funds in the OYSTER investment funds family.
Before joining SYZ & CO, Katia Coudray Cornu worked for ten years with UBP in Geneva, where she was in charge of multi-management and manager selection, notably for a number of investment funds managed by third parties, and of managing the product range. Prior to that, Katia Coudray
- 12/06/2011
FRM Sigma, the CTA fund of funds managed by Financial Risk Management (FRM), has seen its assets double in the last twelve months, reaching nearly USD700 million at the end of April 2011. Based on the current rate of inflows, Sigma is projected to reach USD1 billion in assets by the end of 2011.
Over its five year track record, Sigma has consistently demonstrated its ability to outperform other CTA funds of funds as well as many premier single manager CTAs. Since inception in November 2005, Sigma has generated total net returns of over 103%, including a net return
- 12/06/2011
Hedge fund flows as measured by the GlobeOp Capital Movement Index were positive 1.36% in June.
"Investors remain committed to hedge funds despite volatility in many markets,” says Hans Hufschmid, chief executive officer, GlobeOp Financial Services (LSE:GO.).
The GlobeOp Capital Movement Index represents the monthly net of subscriptions to and redemptions from hedge funds administered by GlobeOp, divided by the total assets under administration (AuA) for GlobeOp’s fund administration clients. Subscriptions were greater than redemptions for the month of May.
Cumulatively, the GlobeOp Capital Movement Index for June 2011 stands at 133.84 points, an increase of 1.36 points over May
- 12/06/2011
The international children’s charity ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) marked its tenth anniversary with its charity dinner in Kensington Palace Gardens on Thursday, raising GBP17.2m for children’s programmes in Africa, Romania, the UK and India. The event was attended by Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and more than 1,000 guests.
Guests commemorated a decade in which the initiative of a handful of committed philanthropists grew into an ambitious, entrepreneurial, charity which has transformed the lives of 200,000 children from Eastern Europe to Southern Africa, India and the UK.
The dinner was addressed by His
- 12/06/2011
Apex Fund Services has secured a USD30 million commitment from FTV Capital for a minority interest in the Company. FTV Capital, the first institutional investor in Apex, is a growth equity investor with extensive experience and a global network in the financial services industry, and especially asset management.
Apex has 23 offices worldwide, including Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai and Switzerland, and delivers global fund administration solutions to investment managers investing in traditional and alternative assets. Apex offers clients a wide variety of specialised and integrated products supporting middle and back office fund administration, complex derivatives, risk reporting and corporate secretarial and
- 12/06/2011
Merchant Capital Limited, the financial services division of Merchant House Group plc, is set to launch five new funds on its Dublin-domiciled, UCITS III umbrella structure.
Five investment managers from around the world, all specialising in alternative investing, have chosen the Merchant Funds’ platform to launch their first UCITS III-compliant funds. The new funds, which are due to launch before 1 September 2011, will each have between USD25m to USD100m of assets under management. The funds will cover a variety of strategies from a US-based Exchange Traded Fund to a Russian Equity Long/Short fund.
The Merchant Funds’ UCITS platform
- 10/06/2011
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