The Global Leveraged Index Fund, a quantitative and global macro strategy fund managed by Coburn Barrett, has a 12 year track record and an annualised return of 14.04 per cent since inception in 1998. The GLI Fund ranks in the top one per cent of all funds for total returns according to Bloomberg. Over the same period, it has outperformed the S&P 500 total return index by 11 per cent, the MSCI Global USD total return by ten per cent and Warren Buffet by six per cent. Year to date, the GLI Fund is up 15 per cent; the S&P

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Global Macro Absolute Return Advantage Fund, a mutual fund managed for total return.    Designed to complement traditional asset classes, the fund employs a flexible strategy that provides wide-ranging exposure to global investment opportunities, including many typically unrepresented in conventional investor portfolios.  As an absolute return fund, the fund benchmarks performance primarily against short-term cash instruments and expects to provide returns over the long term that are substantially independent of movements in the stock and bond markets. In making investment decisions on behalf of the fund, Eaton Vance uses macroeconomic and political

Carlisle, the Luxembourg-based alternative fund manager, has been included within two Hedge Fund Research indices. The Long Term Growth Fund, a life settlement investment fund, is now part of the Hedge Fund Research Total Funds Index and Fixed Income Asset Backed Index. The fund, managed by Carlisle Management, focuses on investing within the secondary life insurance market. "As the investment community continues to seek low correlation to other asset classes and low volatility, we are confident life settlements will be part of the equation," says Jose Garcia, Carlisle’s chief executive. The fund’s strategy is to purchase carefully selected life insurance