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Financial information services provider Markit has announced the launch of the Markit iTraxx Europe Financial Total Return indices, which it has licensed to Deutsche Bank as the underlying
Riyadh-based NCB Capital, the investment banking arm of National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia’s largest bank, has acquired the Capital Partnership, a specialist asset manager to instituti
London-based CF Partners (UK), an environmental finance firm specialising in carbon advisory and trading, is launching a carbon emissions hedge fund strategy.
The CF Carbon Fund adopts a relative value and arbitrage-based approach to trading carbon and the correlation of carbon with other global energy markets, seeking to capitalise on pricing inefficiencies and dislocations in these markets. The fund, which is targeting a 20 per cent return, has been running a shadow portfolio (which is up 6.67 per cent since June) ahead of opening up for investor subscription in November.
The carbon strategy is attracting interest from investors due to
Guernsey’s fund servicing industry grew by 20 per cent over the past year to reach USD331.4bn (GBP166.5bn) in net assets as of June 30, according to the latest edition of Lipper’s Guernsey
The power of hedge fund activism should never be underestimated.
Global index provider Dow Jones Indexes has licensed the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index and its nine sector sub-indices to international derivatives exchange Eurex
As world grapples with the consequences of the implosion of the US sub-prime mortgage sector, some hedge fund managers seem to have already spotted a comparable market, following reports t
NewAlpha, a French alternative investment incubation specialist, has announced its eleventh seeding agreement, a USD50m investment in a portfolio managed by Concerto Asset Management, whic
Zurich-based Finvest Asset Management has received a mandate to allocate around USD300m to the fund of hedge funds sector as part of a low-risk strategy to capitalise on the turbulence in
New Zealand-based hedge fund manager 36 South Investment Managers Limited took its flagship Kohinoor strategy to another year-to-date performance h
