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London-headquartered systematic investment manager, Aspect Capital, has officially launched the Aspect Diversified Trends Fund.
On the back of closing its Asian hedge fund last October (RAB-Pi Asia Fund), London-based RAB Capital is very much focused on its UK managed funds as it looks to consolidate its op
A quick look at the end-of-month returns for UCITS-compliant hedge funds, as reported by US-based Hedge Fund Research in its HFRX Index, shows that macro strategies have stuttered
UK-based Blacksquare Capital has launched a multi-manager UCITS III-compliant fund that will seek to target annualised volatility of 8 per cent: one of the first ever multi-manager
Edouard Carmignac is preparing to launch his first new fund in four years, reported Citywire this week.
Despite concern about the economic impact of dwindling reserves of fossil fuels and the intertwined issue of the cost of controlling or dealing with climate change, experts are convinced that investors can expect buoyant long-term returns from the so-called ‘cleantech’ sector over the coming years and decades.
Another beneficiary could be the Channel Islands, where Ernst & Young is looking to showcase its cleantech work, both as a hub for research and development and as a domicile and service centre for funds channelling capital into the sector.
Clean energy technology has experienced a “seismic shift” in attitudes in recent years,
Asset Management Finance (AMF) has made a passive minority investment in Brigade Capital Management (Brigade), a New York based manager of credit strategies.
Brigade is an SEC-registered investment advisor whose products include long/short credit, distressed debt and traditional high yield. Founded in 2007, Brigade now has 51 employees managing USD7.9 billion of assets across four credit strategies.
Don Morgan, Managing Partner, and Pat Kelly, President and COO, founded Brigade with the objective of providing unique credit-oriented portfolios, both hedged and long-only, to institutional investors. The investment by AMF will help facilitate the continued institutionalisation of the firm and assist in
New York-headquartered Liquidnet, the off-exchange liquidity platform that provides institutional buy-side traders with secure and anonymous block trading of equities, announced th
Nezu Asia, a hedge fund with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and a research office in Japan, which first opened its doors back in 2000, has had a good start to the New Year.
Singapore-based Artradis Fund Management, co-founded in 2001 by Stephen Diggle and Richard Magides, is to shut down and return investors’ mo
