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Altin, the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, has reported a 3.87 per cent rise for its portfolio during the year to 1 October.
Altin, the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, has reported a 3.87 per cent rise for its portfolio during the year to 1 October.
The portfolio features over 35 underlying hedge funds representing ten investment strategies.
Currently the majority of Altin’s underlying investments offer redemption frequency terms of three months or less.
At the portfolio level, the most noticeable changes were an increase in
Funds managed by QVT Financial have filed a lawsuit against Eurohypo and two of its Delaware subsidiaries.
Funds managed by QVT Financial have filed a lawsuit against Eurohypo and two of its Delaware subsidiaries.
Eurohypo is wholly owned by the Commerzbank group.
The action was filed on behalf of the two Delaware trusts established by Eurohypo that had issued profit-dependent securities held by the QVT Funds.
The Delaware complaint alleges that Eurohypo caused the trusts to raise approximately USD1.2bn of profit dependent securities in the capital markets, thus communicating that Eurohypo would remain a profit-maximising entity and creating such
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 3.48 per cent in September and is up 4.66 per cent year-to-date.
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 3.48 per cent in September and is up 4.66 per cent year-to-date.
The S&P 500 advanced 8.76 per cent in September (2.34 per cent YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 7.72 per cent (3.45 per cent YTD), and the Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 12.04 per cent (4.38 per cent YTD).
Bonds advanced, as the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index increased 0.11 per cent (7.94 per cent YTD).
“Hedge funds had their best month since May of
Separately managed accounts are increasingly popular hedge fund structures and they present growth opportunities to managers, according to a report by Pershing, a BNY Mellon company.
The study, developed with Greenwich Associates, details growing investor demand toward SMAs and provides guidance on how hedge fund managers can more effectively incorporate SMAs into their investment solutions and attract additional assets.
Nearly 63 per cent of the investors who participated in the survey cited the opportunity to have greater influence on SMA strategy and input in the area of risk management as one of its primary benefits. This is a result of
UCITS delivered positive returns to investors for the third consecutive month in September.
Concerns are being raised among Europe’s fund managers surrounding the costs of producing the two-page non-technical Key Investor Information Document (KIID), w
HSBC Global Asset Management has announced it intends to launch a 200 per cent levered UCITS version of its EUR623 millio
Merchant Capital, one of the world’s leading UCITS service providers, has confirmed the addition of a third fund on
Topix Futures will be available for trading on NYSE Liffe from 18 October, making the benchmark index available in both Tokyo and London.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Topix (Tokyo Stock Price Index) is the most popular index for benchmarking Japanese equity portfolios, and Topix Futures are already actively traded by investors worldwide.
The NYSE Liffe launch of Topix Futures will increase the number of potential investors who can access these products, particularly outside Asia. The NYSE Liffe market will remain available for trading for 11 hours (ten hours during British Summer Time) following the close of the TSE market.
