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The surge of demand among fund of funds managers and other institutional investors to invest in hedge funds through managed accounts is bringing a surge in new business to established platfor
In the current environment, many investors are seeking to use managed accounts in order to obtain greater transparency, flexibility and liquidity, as well as receiving increased protection ag
As a fund of funds manager investing in hedge funds for more than 10 years, Gottex Fund Management currently manages more than USD8bn in assets, invested with some 100 hedge fund managers.
Hedge fund managers are increasingly employing managed accounts instead of the fund of hedge funds model predominantly used in the past.
The past 18 months have brought vindication of the approach to hedge fund investment offered by Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management.
Innocap may not have the high profile of some players in the hedge fund managed accounts sector, but it has the longest experience of any of them.
Intech Investment Management has launched its first enhanced global equity strategy.
It has been seeded with funding by one of Europe’s largest pension funds.
The strategy is an extension of both Intech’s global core and enhanced index strategies.
As of 30 November 2009 Global Core has returned 3.88 per cent, annualized and gross of fees, since its inception on 1 January 2005, outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI World Index, by 1.65 per cent.
Enhanced index has returned 2.98 per cent, annualized and gross of fees since its inception on 1 April 1998, outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index, by
Having received all the regulatory approvals needed to create their combined asset management arm, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale are incorporating Amundi on 31 December 2009 and starting operations on 1 January 2010.
Georges Pauget, chief executive officer of Crédit Agricole, will be chairman of the board of directors.
Séverin Cabannes, deputy chief executive officer of Société Générale, will be vice chairman and Yves Perrier (pictured), head of asset management and institutional services at Crédit Agricole and chairman and chief executive officer of CAAM Group, will be Amundi’s chief executive.
The board comprises 15 members, two-thirds of whom are appointed
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