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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: A roundup of the week's hedge fund launches, closures, index performance, trends, regulatory, legal and financial events pertaining to the alternative investments industry.

Last week, we heard of fund launches from A2ML (new Megalio fund range); Reech (UCITS version of real estate hedge fund); Way (3 FoFs with no performance fees before set return is achieved); Pilgrim Partners (Asian Macro); Duet (fund of CTA funds); Everest Capital (frontier markets); BlackSquare (multi-manager absolute return fund); and JP Morgan (fund of absolute return funds).

The Parker FX index was down 0.79% in June (+0.71% YTD); the LSX - Long/Short Equity Index went up 0.68% in July (+4.27% YTD); the Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (LAB) Index returned 3.12% (2.99% YTD); the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index gained 1.23% est. (+0.02% YTD); and the UCITS HFS Index recovered from early losses, and was up 0.35% (+2.25% YTD).

HFR said that in Q2, 92% of net assets inflows went to managers with more than $5bn in AuM, yet research by PerTrac suggests that older and larger managers tend to deliver lower absolute returns than smaller and younger ones, Reuters reported; and UCITS inflows swelled to Eur49bn in first quarter, said EFAMA.

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