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A new study produced by HedgeFund Intelligence has found that the returns generated by onshore UCITS are broadly in line with their offshore hedge fund equivalents.
- 21/11/2010
With UCITS assets in excess of USD5.6trillion and 59 per cent of managers with AUM of USD1billion or more running a UCITS platform (according to a recent Preqin report), Societe Generale has
- 21/11/2010
Research undertaken by HFMWeek suggests that dedicated UCITS platforms could potentially
- 21/11/2010
London-based Merchant Capital, an independent Dublin-domiciled UCITS umbrella structure and part of the Merchant House Gr
- 21/11/2010
Kenmar Group, a global alternative investment firm headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, has
- 21/11/2010
Lyxor Asset Management has hired Robert Picard as US head of managed account development.
Picard is based in New York and reports to Lionel Erdely, chief executive of Lyxor US.
Prior to joining Lyxor, Picard was senior adviser to Navigant Consulting’s financial institutions restructuring solutions team and active in advising emerging hedge funds.
Earlier, he was chief investment officer and head of hedge fund research at Optima Fund Management overseeing USD6.5bn of hedge fund investments, and a managing director at The Carlyle Group where he built and managed an institutional platform for alternative investments.
- 21/11/2010
- 21/11/2010
The London Metal Exchange will launch new reference prices for copper, aluminium and zinc markets on 24 January 2011, based on trading activity on the exchange during the Asian time zone.
The new Asian benchmark prices, a set of three month futures prices, will act as regional indicators and bring added transparency to these markets.
The exchange’s electronic trading platform, LMEselect, has seen early morning trading grow in recent years, with average daily volume before 7:00am London time up 90 per cent so far in 2010 compared with 2009, indicating a large increase in trading on the LME from Asian
- 21/11/2010
The 100 Women in Hedge Funds New York Gala has raised USD1.6m in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the oldest and largest youth mentoring organisation in the US.
Since its inception in 2001, 100WHF has raised close to USD20m for philanthropic causes in the areas of women’s health, education and mentoring.
Each year, 100WHF’s board of directors selects one or two charitable organisations in the US and Europe to be the organisation’s philanthropic focus. Charities are chosen on a rotating basis across the areas of women’s health, mentoring and education, with funds raised in 2010 supporting mentoring.
- 19/11/2010
Merrion Investment Managers has reduced the annual management charge on the Merrion European Absolute Return Fund.
The fee reduction from 1.5 per cent to 0.5 per cent applies to investments over EUR5m made before 31 December 2010.
The lower rate will remain in effect for the duration of the investment and will also apply to any subsequent additional investments in the fund.
The fund, which recently announced its first external investor, opened for investment in June 2010 and has grown to USD20m returning 9.5 per cent in the first five months. This figure is in line with the fund’s
- 19/11/2010
Further evidence that Japan’s pension funds are attracting the overtures of fund managers looking to attract new assets comes from the news this week that New York-based AIFAM Inc. is
- 18/11/2010
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