Aberdeen Standard to launch passive hedge fund portfolio

Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) is to launch a liquid alternative strategy with an initial US$150 million (€132 million) from institutional ...

Legal Ease: Regulating marketing

Alternative investment fund managers wanting to raise money in the EEA in the future will need to monitor forthcoming changes ...

GAM launches credit strategy

Swiss fund house GAM Investments has launched a dynamic credit strategy on its Systematic platform. The product aims to outperform ...

Investment into ETPs outpaces hedge funds

Global investment in exchange-traded products (ETPs) grew by US$164.84 billion (€144.80 billion) to $4.82 trillion during the last quarter of ...

Hedge funds experienced heavy outflows during 2018

The hedge fund industry experienced aggregate outflows of US$35.3 billion (€31 billion) during 2018: the second highest the industry has ...

UBS makes one of largest private equity impact investments

UBS triples ESG assets under management

Swiss bank and asset manager UBS has trebled its ESG assets under management (AuM) during 2018 as part of an ...

Brexit: Fund firms start ‘temporary permissions’ exercise

Asset managers including Amundi, Lyxor and RBC Global Asset Management are to seek permission to distribute European-based funds into the ...

Global hedge fund capital drops amid record outflows

A combination of record redemptions, poor performance and surges in market volatility produced a large decline global hedge fund capital ...

Slowing growth likely to change hedge fund priorities, survey finds

Concerns over slowing economic growth could drive a shift by hedge fund investors towards global macro-managed futures strategies and fixed ...

SimCorp’s Dimension gains third-party service provider

Germany’s Universal-Investment group, a fund service provider, has implemented SimCorp’s front-office system - called Dimension - to gain operational efficiencies. ...

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