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Hamburg-based Aquila Capital have already seen some impressive results for the UCITS CTA fund they launched in May.
The IMA this week responded to ESMA’s paper on guidelines for UCITS ETFs and Structured UCITS, in which they propose applying greater regulation, by quest
JP Morgan Asset Management this week rolled out an Emerging Markets Multi-Asset fund to invest primarily in debt and equity instruments
Schroders has made its head of institutional business, Miles O’Connor, the new CEO of NewFinance Capital, the firm’s USD4.5billion hedge fund division, reported Financial
Institutional investors facing upcoming Dodd-Frank Act regulations on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, can get another step closer to compliance with new technology from Bloomberg’s Fixed Income Trading
Bloomberg FIT has launched the first commingled trading platform for OTC swap trading, ALLQ Derivatives, which allows buy-side investors to review indicative prices and execute directly with dealers on the Bloomberg Professional Service. The new technology is the foundation for Bloomberg’s development of a swaps execution facility (SEF) offering. The platform will be adapted upon finalisation of the SEF rules by regulators. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act requires companies to
Morten Spenner (pictured), CEO of International Asset Management (IAM) the GBP2.8bn Fund of Hedge Funds, challenges the recent loss of faith in hedge funds and argues that they are now back doing exactly what investors expect of them…
Recently, hedge funds (as measured by HFRI Fund of Funds Composite) have had a testing time. Since the debacle of 2008 and the "bounce-back" year of 2009, returns have been dull and many have "written off" hedge funds. That said, the performance experience from January 2010 to date has matched the main expectation of clients which are two-fold: i) dampen volatility in
Sunrise Capital Partners has opened to outside investors the Sunrise Aggressive Diversified Strategy, the latest global macro offering from one of the world’s premier systematic trading firms.
The launch culminates 15 years of research and proprietary trading on the strategy, which blends a levered version of Sunrise’s flagship Expanded Diversified Strategy with advanced techniques to trade longer time frames and implement different approaches to capturing the power of market momentum. Since its 1995 inception, the Aggressive Diversified Strategy has delivered nearly 30% compounded net annual returns, assuming a 2% management fee and 20% performance fee. Over the same time period,
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index posted negative performance in August, finishing down 2.30%, with three out of ten strategies posting positive performance for the month.
Conversely, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Total Return and Dow Jones Global Indexes fell 3.96% and 7.69% respectively.
Dedicated Short Bias was the best performing sector in August. The strategy gained 6.56% as managers capitalised on deteriorating conditions within the equity markets. The Event Driven sector continued to experience negative performance led by choppy trading conditions across asset classes, large price swings, and increased correlations; and Global Macro managers posted positive
Pierre Lagrange, one of the industry’s leading fund managers, has taken on a newly appointed role as C
According to a Merrill Lynch global wealth management report Asia’s HNW individual population grew 9.7 per cent last year to 3.3million. CLSA expects the Chinese will make up 60 per cent of the increase in HNWIs over the next five years. Speaking to Bloomberg, Singapore-based Stephen Diggle, who set up a family office – Vulpes Investment Management – after closing Artradis, said: “It was fairly demonstrably clear that there was a very significant problem of alignment of interests by private banks and their customers, adding that “they ceased to be custodians of people’s money and they became salesmen.” Clinton Ang,
