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The MQ Asia Long Short Fund was up 4.26 per cent in May, driven by alpha generation as the fund’s correlation to the MSCI Asia Pacific Index sat at -0.01 per cent, according to Australi
The impact of the global financial and economic downturn on the alternative fund industry is starkly illustrated by a significant decline in the total assets of funds under management and administr
The international derivatives exchange Eurex will introduce a future based on notional long-term debt instruments issued by the Republic of Italy on 14 September 2009.
Investment boutique Newscape Capital Group has hired Derek Fulton as a board director and chief investment officer.
Fulton (pictured), an ex-head of global closed end fixed income portfolios at Aberdeen Asset Management, will have overall responsibility for asset allocation, strategy selection, portfolio construction and portfolio management.
He has been managing global fixed income and associated multi-strategy portfolios for nearly 15 years. While at Aberdeen Asset Management, he held a variety of senior investment positions including head of Asian fixed income in Singapore, and head of global fixed income portfolios in London.
Fulton started his career as a global fixed
The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index posted its largest monthly increase in May since its January 2003 inception, rising 6.7 per cent for the month and 9.7 per cent for the first five
US Senator Jack Reed has introduced the Private Fund Transparency Act of 2009 in an effort to strengthen financial oversight of hedge funds and other private investment funds.
It is not so much the presence of funding ratio constraints that is costly for pension funds as their reluctance to implement optimal risk-management strategies, according to research b
Stock market volatility dropped for a fourth consecutive month in May to 28.92 per cent, according to Edhec Business School.
Gartmore has appointed John Bennett, investment director at GAM, as senior portfolio manager, European equities.
Bennett has a 20-year track record of managing Continental and pan European equities and will join from GAM where he has spent the last 16 years. He will report to Dominic Rossi, Gartmore’s chief investment officer.
At GAM Bennett manages the GAM Star Continental European Equity Fund and the GAM Star European Equity Fund.
At Gartmore he will assume lead management responsibility for the Gartmore European Select Opportunities and Gartmore SICAV Continental European Funds. The funds’ current managers, Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg,
Following the successful launch of the Cazenove UK Absolute Target Fund, which has raised GBP245m 
since launch (July 2008), Cazenove Capital plans
