18 Jul 2011
Uncertainty in Europe and the US pushes investors towards gold
Investors are increasingly looking to gold as a safe haven as the US Dollar, Pound Sterling and the Euro continue to devalue against…
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Preliminary acceptance rate of Alpha Beta's Deutsche Borse offer exceeds minimum acceptance threshold
Based on the declarations of acceptance booked and/or submitted so far by custodian banks for the offer from Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding…
ProShares launches ETF as alternative to hedge funds
ProShares has launched the ProShares Hedge Replication ETF (HDG). HDG's benchmark is based on Merrill Lynch's recognised hedge fund…
17 Jul 2011
GLG launches UCITS version of flagship European equity l/s fund
GLG Partners, now part of Man Group Plc, this week announced the launch of their 10th UCITS fund since July…
UCITS enjoy solid net inflows for May says EFAMA
UCITS attracted nearly EUR23billion in net sales for May, up slightly from EUR21billion in April.PARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6cUCITS…
Paris fund manager John Locke launches CTA UCITS
John Locke Investments, the independent CTA operating out of Fountainebleau, this week announced the launch of an…
Fitch warns of AR funds being potentially mis-sold to investors
Ratings agency Fitch has issued a two-pronged attack on European Absolute Return funds, branding them “prone to performance disappointment”…
Newedge releases June figures for hedge fund indexes
Newedge has posted the monthly performance data for its suite of hedge Fund Indices. All bar one of the indices were in negative territory…
CFTC clarifies effective date for swaps regulation under Dodd-Frank Act
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order clarifying the effective date of the provisions in the swap regulatory…
State Street Vision report examines reinvention in the hedge fund industry
State Street Corporation has published a new Vision Report examining the re-emergence of the hedge fund industry and the new dynamic…
15 Jul 2011
European regulatory body invites comment on AIFM Directive implementation
The European Securities and Markets Authority, which succeeded the Committee of European Securities Regulators at the beginning of this…
SEC charges Folin and Benchmark with fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Sam Otto Folin (Folin), his Philadelphia-based registered investment adviser,…
14 Jul 2011
Aberdeen Asia launches third property FoFs
Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd, the Singapore-based operating arm of Aberdeen Asset Management, announced this week the launch of its…
Asia ex-Japan hedgies fall over 1 per cent in June
A combination of tough volatility in the commodity markets and continuing fears over Greece’s sovereign debt crisis (not to mention the…
Nomura prop trading head Fuchs plans USD400million hedge fund
The head of Nomura Holdings Inc’s Global Opportunities Group prop trading desk, Benjamin Fuchs, is planning to start his own…
