09/16/2011
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index outperforms global equities
Hedge funds generated negative performance in August, falling 2.30% for the month versus a loss of 7.69% for the Dow Jones Global Index.
Alternative Investments
09/15/2011
Irish Life secures Standard Life Investments' Funds
Standard Life Investments has announced that three of its top funds have been added to the pension platform of Irish Life Corporate Business, the biggest provider of employee benefit solutions in Ireland.
09/15/2011
Trade bodies urge restraint on AIFMD
Industry bodies are calling on the European Securities and Markets Authority to apply proportionality in the treatment of alternative investment funds when it submits its recommendations to the European Commission later this year.
09/15/2011
Lyxor Hedge Fund Index records negative performance in August
The Lyxor Hedge Indices are investable, asset-weighted indices, designed to offer investors straightforward access to hedge fund performance.
09/13/2011
Schroders plans to launch fund of maximisers
Schroders has confirmed it is considering the launch of a fund of funds based on its Income Maximiser range.
09/13/2011
Fidelity undergoes another rebrand
Fidelity International has rebranded for the second time in the space of a year, as Fidelity Worldwide Investment.
09/12/2011
Star Irish fund managers are thin on the ground
The pond of Irish fund managers is small and getting increasingly smaller, so the days of the Georgie Best-style leader have disappeared -- along with lengthy, liquid lunches.
09/12/2011
Lloyds Considers Sale of Loan Portfolio - Sunday Times
Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) is considering selling a 1 billion-pound ($1.59 billion) portfolio of property loans as it seeks to repair its balance sheet, the Sunday Times reported without saying where it got the information.
09/12/2011
Morgan Stanley Releases The Definitive Gold Stocks Report
Everything you always wanted to know about the future of gold stocks and much more is now answered in this 79 page monster of a report just released by Morgan Stanley, which finally joins the crowd and goes megabullish on gold stocks
09/06/2011
Matrix assumes control of Olympus hedge fund
Matrix assumes control of Olympus hedge fund
09/05/2011
Fund managers' cash cow revealed
Fund managers' cash cow revealed
09/02/2011
LSE in £900m bid talks with LCH.Clearnet
LSE in £900m bid talks with LCH.Clearnet
09/01/2011
JP Morgan and HSBC muscle in on prime brokerage arena
The last couple of months have seen two global institutions step up their game in the prime brokerage arena – namely HSBC and JP Morgan.
08/31/2011
Tax regime boost for fund management
Tax regime boost for fund management
08/31/2011
Spot the dog - and the £23bn cost of underperformance
Spot the dog - and the £23bn cost of underperformance
08/31/2011
The Complete Guide To The Good And The Bad Hedge Funds In The Worst Month Of 2011
Hedge funds with long exposure to the equity market (generally long/short managers) got crushed in August.
08/23/2011
Gold Tops $1,900 for First Time
Gold Tops $1,900 for First Time
08/19/2011
Church House shelves UK’s first deep value investment trust
Plans to roll out Trade & General Investments were revealed at the end of June.
08/18/2011
France hopes to boost local hedge fund industry
Despite France’s hostility towards hedge funds, the country’s capital could yet become a major hedge fund center, experts say.
08/18/2011
Financial turmoil increases allure of Europe’s most valuable real estate
Irish investor Aidan Brooks’s Tribeca Holdings Ltd. paid 13 percent more than the asking price for a shop on London’s Bond Street that generates slightly more income than a U.K. government bond. It beat three other offers.