Fund manager GLG Partners, which is owned by the major alternative investment company Man Group, has launched a sustainability equity fund and claims that sustainability is set to be “one of the largest areas of global capital investment over the coming decades”.
Concern that China will bring in over-tight monetary policy and suffer a 'hard landing' is the main source of uncertainty in the equity markets, according to Lothar Mentel, CIO at Octopus Investments, a London-based investment firm with $2.5bn under management.
US firm Saguenay Capital and London-based Strathmore Capital have merged and formed Saguenay Strathmore Capital (SSC), an alternative investment manager focused on customised fund of hedge fund portfolios.
Investors should look beyond long-only funds in emerging markets and begin pursuing long/short strategies, says Hugo Rogers, who manages funds for F&C Thames River.
One of Brazil's largest investment managers, JGP Gestão de Recursos, has been assigned a MQ1 rating by Moody's on the back of it's risk-adjusted investment performance and its overall investment management capabilities.
China’s National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF) made more direct investments in 2010 than the year before, with 58.9% of its RMB776.7bn (€83.7bn) in assets under management representing direct holdings.
