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05 Jul. 2010 Rogers I.A. gets $90m mandate from Japan institution, as Japan's pension funds become promising asset-raising target [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – Rogers Investment Advisors announced in a letter received by Opalesque today, that advisory AuM, through its relationship with Wolver Hill Asset Management and Wolver Hill Advisors, will increase by
02 Jul. 2010 Advent enters into agreement with SuperDerivatives to provide pricing and analytics services to Geneva clients [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Advent Software, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with SuperDerivatives, Inc. to offer their multi-asset web analytic system and revaluation services to c
01 Jul. 2010 Top-rated absolute return fixed income team to join RWC Partners [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - RWC Partners has announced that Peter Allwright and Stuart Frost will join to manage absolute return and currency funds. Allwright and Frost are lead managers on the highly regarded Threadneedle Absolute Return Bond portfolios which have grown to more than $3bn since
30 Jun. 2010 Greenwich Composite Investable Index shed -2.18% during May [more]
Opalesque Industry Updates - The Greenwich Composite Investable Index shed 2.18% during May in an extremely difficult market for hedge funds and investors worldwide. All Greenwich Investable Indices moved lower on the month, albeit to a lesser extent than the precipitous drop experienced by global
30 Jun. 2010 AIMA Singapore on Dodd-Frank Bill: chief concerns is bill that would tax larger US hedge fund managers to finance costs of legislation [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – The Singapore Branch of the Alternative Investment Management Association (“AIMA”), the industry trade association for hedge funds, sees the agreement finalised last Friday by U.S. legislators on financial reform, the Dodd-Frank Bill, as an important milestone in
30 Jun. 2010 Former JP Morgan managers join $2.6bn Gramercy to launch three new EM debt strategies on July 1st [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Former Heads of JP Morgan Asset Management’s Emerging Markets Debt Group to Establish New EMD Strategies Gramercy today announced that Jeffrey Grills, 38, and Gunter Heiland, 43, have joined the firm to establish new investment management str
29 Jun. 2010 Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index declined 4% in May, asset outflows continued in April standing at $2.4bn YTD [more]
Opalesque Industry Updates - Morningstar, Inc., a provider of independent investment research, reported preliminary hedge fund performance for May 2010 and asset flows through April. The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index declined 4.0% in May, dragging year-to-date performance through May into negati
29 Jun. 2010 UK investment professionals regain confidence in financial market integrity but concerns remain on regulation, hedge funds and financial advice [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - According to the 2010 CFA Institute Financial Market Integrity Index (the Index), a survey of CFA charterholders has found that investment professionals appear to have regained some of the faith they had lost in the integrity of the UK financial system since the global fi
29 Jun. 2010 EDHEC-Risk study finds no theoretical or empirical justification for cap-weighted indices [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - After the financial crisis and the accompanying falls in the stock markets, many commentators have questioned the appropriateness of tracking cap-weighted indices. These indices are particularly inefficient and, through their momentum properties, favour the emergence of s
29 Jun. 2010 Hedge funds lost $66.87bn in May but investor inflows remain positive at $2.13bn – HFN [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - The hedge fund industry lost $66.87bn of its assets from negative performance in May but net investor flows were positive for the fifth month in a row, as they put in $2.13bn, according to HedgeFund.net’s latest Industry Overview. Total industry assets
29 Jun. 2010 AIMA statement on U.S. financial reform [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - “AIMA, as the global hedge fund association, has worked throughout the past two years with U.S. and other national and international policy officials and supported efforts to develop regulatory reforms designed to improve financial stability in light of the financial cris
28 Jun. 2010 100WHF to honour Geraldine Sundstrom of Brevan Howard with European Industry Leadership Award [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - 100 Women in Hedge Funds ("100WHF"), a leading non-profit organization for professionals in the alternative investments industry, today announced that Geraldine Sundstrom, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Brevan Howard Asset Management, will be awarded t
28 Jun. 2010 Alpha Beta cries $40m fraud against Pursuit Investment [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – The New York-based Alpha Beta Capital Partners LP has filed a $40m damage claim against Pursuit Investment LLC over what it described as fraudulent representations involving Alpha Beta’s exposure into two
25 Jun. 2010 Ambitious EU hedge fund regulation collapses over ‘passport’ disagreement [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – The dream of portraying Europe as a model for ambitious hedge fund rules suffered a major blow Thursday over serious disagreements about the controversial “passport” rule, while Europe’s trans-Atlantic rival, the U.S. is close to signing off on a key financial reform bill
24 Jun. 2010 Finadium survey: Leading asset managers in custody, securities lending and collateral management 2010 [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Finadium has released its annual survey of asset manager behaviors and decision drivers in custody, securities lending, and collateral management. This survey covers 26 large asset managers in North America and Europe with nearly $15 trillion in AUM. Now in its third year
24 Jun. 2010 Lawmakers fail to reach agreement on Volcker rule [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – Congressional negotiators struggled but failed to reach an agreement on Wednesday into a sweeping financial industry reform, including the so-called Volcker rule that bans depository institutions such as banks, to use their own funds to reap profits rather than acting on
24 Jun. 2010 Rich hold onto wealth through crisis, Asian millionaires grow to match HNW population in Europe [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – The number of rich individuals, with investible assets of not less than $1m, grew 17% to 10 million in 2009, with their collective wealth totaling $39tln or a gain of 19%. Surprisingly, the rich regained their wealth while the rest of the world endured the worst economic
22 Jun. 2010 Credit Suisse and Dow Jones Indexes join forces on hedge fund indexes to create Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Indexes [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Credit Suisse, one of the world's leading financial services providers, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today signed an agreement which covers the calculation, licensing, branding and marketing of the hedge fund indexes formerly known as the Cr
22 Jun. 2010 Threat of new ‘flash crash’ looms over markets – experts [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – Just when the markets thought the May 6 “flash crash” was already history and its repeat very unlikely with the introduction of the new “circuit breaker” rule by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), market experts said that the threat of a new crash looms large o
21 Jun. 2010 Laven Partners remains hopeful for a final AIFM Directive text soon [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – The process of the 'Trilogue', which consists of discussions between the European Parliament’s Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs (Econ), the Economic Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) and the European Commission, has officially began and will e
21 Jun. 2010 RWC launches UCITS III pan-European L/S equity fund [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - RWC Partners today announced that Ajay Gambhir is set to launch the RWC Europe Absolute Alpha Fund, a UCITS III pan-European long/short equity fund. The new fund will launch at the end of July following the launch of Mike Corcell’s RWC US Absolute Alpha fund, which h
18 Jun. 2010 New Credit Suisse/Tremont commentary offers insight into May hedge fund performance [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Broad Index posts -2.76% in May as volatility and risk aversion rise Whereas nine-out-of-ten hedge fund strategies in the Index were positive in April, nine-out-often strategies were negative in May as volatility almost tripl
18 Jun. 2010 Deutsche Bank and Winton launch UCITS III fund [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Deutsche Bank and Winton Capital Management (‘Winton’) announce the launch of a UCITS III compliant version of Winton’s flagship Diversified Program. The UCITS III fund, called the DB Platinum IV dbX Systematic Alpha Index Fund (‘The Fund’), which will be launc
18 Jun. 2010 NewAlpha launches NewAlpha Genesis 4, its fourth hedge fund seeding vehicle for institutional investors [more]
Opalesque Industry Update – NewAlpha Genesis 4 is a contractual fund currently being established with a view to invest in French and foreign hedge funds ran by early-stage fund managers. NewAlpha AM aims to raise €200 million from European institutional investors, family offices, private
18 Jun. 2010 Barclay CTA Index down 0.77% in May (-0.99% YTD), managed futures sectors show divergence [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Managed futures lost 0.77% in May according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. “The slowing of growth in China, fears of a double-dip recession in the US, and a European liquidity crisis precipitated a sharp decline in global equity prices,” says Sol
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