03/03/2013
UBS eyes Asia with first Hong Kong ETF listing
Clemens Reuter, UBS ETF head, said: "The Asia-Pacific ETF market is growing and we want to take advantage of this with our own offering in the region.
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03/03/2013
Schroders announces launch of Global Unconstrained Bond fund
The team, led by Head of Global Macro, Bob Jolly, and fixed income fund manager, Gareth Isaac, will use a diversified top-down approach and seek to generate consistent returns through the exploitation of opportunities across a range of alpha sources.
03/03/2013
Principal buys majority stake in Liongate Capital
The Liongate partners will retain a 45 percent share and will manage Liongate within their current roles
02/28/2013
Mobiliar Asset Management engages CACEIS to administrate Swiss real estate fund
The fund will invest in the development of a high quality Swiss real estate portfolio preferably in strong economic centres and their agglomerations.
02/27/2013
Fund firm Man Group hit by employee arrest, outflows
Man said an unidentified employee in its GLG division was arrested by Britain's financial markets watchdog
02/27/2013
Swiss asset management company launches dynamic allocation fund
Today, things are more complex
02/26/2013
Swiss Life posts 26% increase in profit from operations
Swiss Life posts 26% increase in profit from operations to CHF 993 million with net profit after one-off effects of CHF 93 million
02/26/2013
UK leads 12-state rebellion against EC hedge fund rules
Germany, Holland, Sweden and Austria are among 12 signatories of a strongly worded complaint
02/24/2013
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Altus to Cooperate on a Fund Market Infrastructure
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange is creating a market infrastructure, which will provide services to substantially support, facilitate and standardize the cross-border distribution of funds.
02/24/2013
New Hedge Fund Deposits to Triple, Deutsche Bank Says
Hedge fund assets worldwide may increase 11 percent to $2.5 trillion by year-end
02/22/2013
SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator up in February
"Year-to-date February redemption notices fall well below average over the index history," said Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
02/21/2013
New Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Commentary
Highlights of some key findings from the report.
02/21/2013
Old Mutual to merge away Skandia UK Best Ideas
OMGI said the two funds represented "an area of overlap" in its fund range following the merger of Old Mutual Asset Managers and Skandia Investment Group into OMGI.
02/20/2013
Credit Suisse to redeem $1.5 billion in tier 1 capital
The bank said in a statement it had decided to redeem $1.525 billion 7.9 percent Tier 1 Capital Notes on March 28
02/20/2013
M&G American and M&G Global Leaders removed from the Wealth 150
The M&G American Fund and M&G Global Leaders Fund have been removed from the Wealth 150 list of our favourite funds across the major sectors.
02/19/2013
Henderson Strategic Bond Fund removed from the Wealth 150
Over the past three years, conditions have generally been favourable for bond markets, but where there have been setbacks the fund has not offered as much shelter as we would expect.
02/19/2013
Crispin Odey to launch multi-asset fund
Hedge fund guru slates multi-asset long-short fund for March launch.
02/18/2013
Skandia International unveils new RDR ready offshore bonds
The new bonds will be compatible with the RDR requirements and will be powered by Wealth Interactive, Skandia International’s new wealth management service.
02/17/2013
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Finished Up 2.07% in January
January 2013 and December 2012 performance numbers are listed below
02/17/2013
Man Group set for management shake-up
The overhaul will amount to a significant consolidation of Mr Roman’s own power base in the company and will indicate the extent to which he will exercise far more executive control over its day-to-day operation.