15 Aug 2010
UCITS up for July but lagging behind traditional funds
Latest figures released by the UCITS Alternative Index Global show that it climbed +0.53 per cent last month, yielding an overall figure of…
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Finance vacuum creates opportunity for private capital, says Cresco
The substantial withdrawal of bank finance seen over the course of the last three years has created a financing vacuum in the UK corporate…
Atlantic, Montage and Palmer Square to seed emerging hedge funds
Atlantic Asset Management, Montage Asset Management and Palmer Square Capital Management have formed a joint venture to make seed…
13 Aug 2010
ABC Quant hires Peter de Marigny
ABC Quant, part of Quant Risk Group Hedge Fund Analytics companies, has hired Peter J. de Marigny, manager of Equity Hedge DITMo…
Asian hedge funds outperform their Japan peers for July
Global hedge funds finally reversed two consecutive months of declines by making positive returns in July, the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite…
Hedge fund guru Falcone to launch Pan-Asia Fund
New York-based hedge fund guru, Phil Falcone (pictured), is preparing to make his first foray into the Asia region with the launch of a…
Matrix Asia Fund celebrates two-year anniversary with 55.6% MSCI APAC outperformance
When UK-based Matrix Group decided to launch its Matrix Asia Fund
12 Aug 2010
Diamond Dragon Advisors Ltd to “fill void” in Asia fund placement
Hong Kong-based Diamond Dragon Advisors Ltd, Asia’s first independent general partner advisory and fund placement firm established by…
Taiwan and Japan bourses explore cross-listing ETF plan
Asia’s fourth largest emerging stock market, Taiwan, is in talks with the region’s largest – Japan – to cross-list its exchange-traded…
People Moves
Nomura has announced the appointment of Henrik Melph as MD, Global HeaPARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6c Nomura has announced the appointment of…
Investor flows into hedge funds jumped in July
The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Index rose by 1.72 per cent in July and 1.84 per cent in the first seven months of 2010. The S&P 500 Total…
Lyxor Hedge Fund Index up 0.7 per cent in July
The Lyxor Global Hedge Fund index was up 0.7 per cent in July, lifting year-to-date gains to 0.8 per cent.Equity markets delivered solid…
Market conditions to benefit long/short equity and credit managers
Morten Spenner, chief executive at International Asset Management, believes credit and equity market conditions bode well for security…
S&P launches indices measuring risk premium between asset classes and markets
Standard & Poor’s has launched the S&P Factor Indices, which seek to measure the risk premium inherent between asset classes and…
Eurex to offer euro gold contract
Derivatives exchange Eurex will launch futures and options on Xetra-Gold, an exchange-traded commodity in Germany. The new gold contracts…
