Global hedge fund managers are responding to investors’ increasing interest in responsible investment, according to a trade body for the sector.
Asset manager Janus Henderson has poached Alex Barr from Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) to join its UK multi-asset and alternatives team.
Karine Hirn, a founding partner of Swedish asset manager East Capital, has become the firm’s first chief sustainability officer.
Withdrawals from hedge funds surged in March even though investors were seeing returns of up to more than 5%.
BMO Global Asset Management has appointed Stewart Bennett to the newly-formed position of global head of alternatives.
During a decade of ultra-low interest rates, liquid alternative funds have become the fastest-growing asset class in Europe and the UK. But, asks Mark Latham, will the growth continue as rates begin to rise?
The global hedge fund industry witnessed its first net monthly inflows in six months during February, with investors pouring an estimated US$1.63 billion (€1.44 bn) into the asset class.
The two fund domiciles of Jersey and Guernsey, which specialise in alternative investment vehicles, have gained agreements between the islands’ financial regulators and their UK counterpart that clarifies their funds will have access to UK investors in the event of Brexit.
Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) domiciled in the European Union amounted to €4.9 trillion in 2017, according to a report from the pan-European financial regulator Esma.
Liquid open-ended alternative funds have become the fastest growing asset classes in the UK and European-domiciled cross-border fund market since the 2008 global financial crisis, according to a report published Monday (4th).
