The Credit Suisse/Tremont Broad Hedge Fund Index returned a solid 4.06 per cent for May 2009, the third consecutive month of positive returns and the largest monthly performance since F

The European Commission’s proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers unveiled in May is just the latest in a long line of external developments that have complicated Jersey’s effort

Jersey is a world-renowned centre for fund domicile, servicing and management and is home to a wealth of professionals including law firms, accountants, auditors, administrators, custodians and ban

All funds have been impacted by the general shift of investor risk appetite during 2008, leading to significant redemption and going concern issues for hedge funds.

Historically Jersey has not attracted the same large numbers of single-manager hedge funds that have been domiciled in jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, in large part because it did not hav

Alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds by the world’s largest investment managers diminished by around one per cent to USD817bn in 2008, according to research produced by

PCE Investors, an alternative investment manager, has launched the Gyldmark Liquid Macro Fund. Gyldmark will provide investors with exposure to a pure macro strategy by minimizing other risk factors including illiquidity of investments, lack of disclosure and redemption restrictions as well as credit, counterparty, operational and fraud risk.   Gyldmark will integrate three factors: macro fundamentals (business cycle dynamics, structural economic, social and technological shifts, government policy impact and geopolitics), market themes (commentary, research and professional press, investor perceptions and flows, and key market drivers), and technical conditions (price action, momentum and emerging trends, investor positioning and sentiment data, and