Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager Enhanced Investment Products, which manages a series of eight single-country index funds in Asia as well as the EIP Overlay Fund, a market neutral Asia e
Matrix has launched a closed-ended version of its open-ended Asset Based 2 Fund, which was was launched in August and was up 0.64 per cent in its first month, despite August being one of t
By James Williams – A recent industry survey that ranked Asian prime brokerages based on hedge fund AUM was both predictable and unexpected. Predictable in the sense that Goldman Sachs remains the leading broker in Asia. Unexpected in the sense
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against AlphaMetrix, a Chicago-based commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor. The complaint alleges that AlphaMetrix misappropriated funds belonging to commodity pools it operated and sent false or misleading
A total of some 156 million contracts were traded on the Eurex international derivatives exchange in September, a year-on-year increase of more than 16 per cent from 134 million contracts
AIP Mutual Funds, whose flagship Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund was launched in September 2002, is celebrating its fifth anniversary having topped USD650m in assets and comprehensively beate
Highland Funds Asset Management has launched the Highland Dividend Equity Fund (ticker:HDFAX). Brookmont Capital Management, LLC (Brookmont) will serve as the fund’s sub-advisor. The Highland Dividend Equity Fund will employ a strategy of individual common stocks that seeks to provide
Hedge funds lost 0.38% in December, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index was down 5.37% at the end of 2011. “Equity markets started the month with a sell-off, and then went on to rally
Online foreign exchange portal FXall has announced record trading volume of more than USD90bn in a single day, along with a rise in average daily volume for September of more than 44 per c
The board of the Managed Funds Association, the leading US industry body for alternative investment managers, has chosen Eric Vincent, president of Ospraie Management, as its new chairman.
