Asset management firm Barings has bought a prime retail warehouse in Madrid for unnamed institutional investors.
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Asset management firm Barings has bought a prime retail warehouse in Madrid for unnamed institutional investors.
Geneva-based Mirabaud Asset Management has launched a second private equity fund which will invest in the luxury consumer goods sector.
GAM has appointed Giovanni D’Alesio as head of research for its alternative investment solutions business. He replaces Kier Boley who is leaving the firm at the end of the first quarter this year.
Nearly 40% of assets under management in the EU funds industry is made up of alternative investment funds (AIFs), latest figures show.
Hedge funds last year delivered their strongest returns since 2009.
Top hedge fund trends this year will include higher assets, a reduction in returns, and a greater focus on US investors by UK managers, according to Agecroft Partners.
Liquid alternatives have suffered from performance and perception problems, severely lagging the hedge funds they were based on – but, Elizabeth Pfeuti hears, the market environment could start to favour them.
Dutch fund manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) has appointed Niels Bodenheim as head of alternative credit.
And more change. A small reduction in market share among larger asset managers is partly explained by the rise of alternative asset classes, finds Alan Chalmers.
JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has appointed Meg McClellan to the new role of head of private credit in the firm’s global alternatives group.
