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SIXTINA, the managed account platform operated by Natixis Alternative Investments France, this week announced the launch of the SIXTINA Harbert Event Opportunities Fund.
A recent survey conducted by Malta-based financial services group, ML Capital, has found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Global Macro is the most popular newcit
Zurich-headquartered global hedge fund investment firm, GAM, launched their UCITS III-compliant Star Dynamic Global Bond fund this month.
An article in the Financial Times this week reported that some industry figures believe an alternative Ucits III-compliant vehicle could
Ex-Goldman’s banker Hideki Furusho has teamed up with a University of Tokyo professor to launch a hedge fund that trades Nikkei 22
Tano Capital, the family office of the founders of Franklin Templeton Inves
Ex-Nomura derivatives trader Go Horiuchi was able to make five per cent returns in March, despite the catastrophic earthquake, reported Bloo
David Gray, Asia Pacific head of prime brokerage at UBS, has left the firm.
ALTIN, the USD270m multi-strategy fund of hedge funds achieved a very positive investment performance in 2010 of +12.47%, easily outperforming the funds of hedge funds index, HFRI FoF (+5.67%).
ALTIN continued with a strong start to 2011, up 2.48% in the first three months of 2011, compared to +0.89% in the YTD for the HFR FoF composite Index. ALTIN holds one of the world’s longest track records as an exchange-listed fund of hedge funds. It listed in Switzerland in 1996 and in London in 2001 and has an annualised return of +7.53% since inception in December 1996.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted unanimously to propose rules further defining the terms “swap,” “security-based swap,” and “security-based swap agreement.” The Commission also proposed rules regarding “mixed swaps” and books and records for “security-based swap agreements.”
The rules were proposed jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and stem from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
“The proposed definitions balance several policy and legal issues in a way I believe is practical, takes into account the specific nature of derivatives contracts, and is consistent with existing securities regulations,” says SEC Chairman Mary L Schapiro
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