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Harcourt Investment Consulting, the Switzerland-based alternative investment solutions provider, says assets under management as of 30 June 2010 have reached USD4.7bn, corresponding to a growth of USD200m for the first half of 2010.
The asset increase derives from existing as well as from new clients. The majority of these inflows were originated from institutional clients.
In the first half of 2010, Harcourt launched Vonda Ucits, its first Ucits compliant fund of hedge fund. The fund combines CTA and macro investments with the benefits of the Ucits framework, which provides EU-regulated liquidity and diversification guidelines.
The firm also launched Belmont Commodity
- 31/08/2010
Twelve Capital, an investment manager focusing on insurance related investment opportunities, has completed its spin-off from alternative investments manager Horizon21.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Twelve has an investment team of seven insurance industry experts providing investment management and advisory services to investors through investment funds and bespoke mandates.
Twelve specialises in insurance-related investment opportunities such as insurance-linked securities and insurance debt investment strategies.
The insurance-linked securities market has grown significantly in size over the past years with a large number of bonds issued and active trading in the secondary markets. In addition, there is a large market for private reinsurance
- 31/08/2010
- 31/08/2010
NYSE Euronext’s US data centre in Mahwah, New Jersey, has completed the migration of more than 4,500 equities issues listed on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex.
With the NYSE and NYSE Amex equities primary matching engines now inside the new data centre, NYSE Euronext will begin the migration of its other markets as well as NYSE Technologies’ product portfolio that includes co-location services, direct data feeds, trading infrastructure on-demand, SuperFeed and its Risk Management Gateway service.
“The successful move of NYSE and NYSE Amex listed issues into our US data centre is truly a technological and operational
- 31/08/2010
Traditionally Luxembourg hedge funds and funds of hedge funds have been set up under part II of the law of December 20, 2002 on UCIs and, more recently, Specialised Investment Funds governed
- 30/08/2010
Ifina’s organisation in June of a networking evening at BVI House in London, featuring speakers representing the global hedge fund industry and the funds sectors in the British Virgin I
- 30/08/2010
- 30/08/2010
Attorneys from Houston’s Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Anaipakos are representing a group of investors in a lawsuit filed against hedge fund auditors Ernst & Young after the group lost more than USD17m following the collapse of a Plano, Texas-based hedge fund that promised low-risk investments.
The lawsuit focuses on two funds sold by Plano’s Parkcentral Global and was filed on behalf of Houston financial consultant Gus H. Comiskey and four Tucson, Arizona-based entities, including the Thomas R. Brown Family Private Foundation.
The now-defunct Parkcentral Global was operated by affiliates of billionaire and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot before closing its
- 30/08/2010
On May 17, 2010, the Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010 (SIBA) came into force in the British Virgin Islands.
- 30/08/2010
- 30/08/2010
Market commentary and discussion on the merits and limitations of alternative Ucits funds continue to generate considerable interest for hedge fund managers and their investors.
The interest is backed by recent statistics from the European Fund and Asset Management Association showing continued recovery and overall net inflows for Ucits since the turn of the year. At the end of May, total net assets within Ucits stood at EUR5.58trn, representing about 76 per cent of all European investment fund assets. While the alternative Ucits sector is currently a small fragment of the Ucits market, it is growing rapidly.
This trend is
- 30/08/2010
- 30/08/2010
Today alternative Ucits III structures are very much in vogue, but the SEB Asset Selection Fund traces its origins back more than five years, to a train journey to northern Sweden in March 2005.
- 30/08/2010
- 30/08/2010
Due to the combination of bruising market losses, high correlation among asset classes, unexpected illiquidity and epic scandals, the investment management industry faces a restless, empowered investor base.
In addition to a focus on transparency and liquidity, retail investors and their advisors – as well as smaller institutional investors – are increasingly focused on absolute returns and investment strategies uncorrelated with long-only equity and bond indices.
Consequently, asset allocation trends are accelerating demand for products that combine access to non-correlated strategies and asset classes with the liquidity and transparency of registered investment products.
With more than 50 per cent of
- 30/08/2010
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