Asset management
Ucits fund of hedge funds proliferate despite lack of diversitiy and underlying funds
Proliferation of Ucits funds of funds: Ucits supplement July 2010: Examining the phenomenon
Platforms offer route to Ucits hedge fund investment, marketing and distribution
Platform for investment: Ucits supplement July 2010: Examining the phenomenon
Hedge fund managers moving into Ucits ETFs and index products
Innovation leads to expanded product offering: Ucits supplement July 2010: Examining the phenomenon
Luxembourg aims for domination of hedge fund Ucits
Luxembourg hungry for alternatives: Ucits supplement July 2010: Examining the phenomenon
Ireland keen to dominate Ucits hedge fund sector
Ireland follows different path to hedge fund Ucits: Ucits supplement July 2010: Examining the phenomenon
Investable indexes: May 2010 returns
The May 2010 returns for investable indexes including Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index, Dow Jones Investable Indexes, Frontier Capital Multi Asset Platform Fund versus the indexes, Hedge Fund Research Indexes and Lyxor Alternative Index.
AIFM first reading vote delayed until September
Belgium is set to take over negotiations for the alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) directive after talks between the European Union council and parliament broke down last week.
Solvency II to push annuity providers to gilts
Fitch analysts say demand for corporate bonds could drop as Solvency II forces UK insurers to opt for gilts
Subdued times for buyouts
Dan DeKeizer, chief executive of MetLife Assurance, talks to Alexander Campbell
Asia's rich overtake Europe, says wealth report
Hong Kong's population of wealthy individuals more than doubled last year - the strongest crisis rebound in the world.
Variable annuities face more hedging challenges in Asia
Variable returns
Profile: Swiss Re's Raj Singh
Predicitng the unthinkable
Prime broking in Asia finds new equilibrium
Primed for business
A long life for longevity swaps?
The market for longevity swaps is picking up pace, with several transactions completed over the past few months. But is this asset class here to stay or is it a response to market conditions? By Alexander Campbell
Third countries dominate AIFM negotiations
The question of how to deal with funds and managers based outside the European Union (EU) is proving the main dividing point in negotiations over the alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) directive.
Roles of depositaries and custodians in a Ucits hedge fund framework
In the May issue we reported the results of a recent EDHEC-Risk Institute survey on structuring hedge fund strategies as Ucits.
Hedge fund investment back on pension funds' horizons
Pension schemes are again making allocations into hedge funds, despite the negative performance from many funds – and therefore correlation with underlying markets – throughout the financial crisis. So why the interest? John Ferry reports
Variable annuity redesign led by US innovation
Variable annuity providers were hurt by basis risk, extreme volatility and policyholder lapses during the crisis, and guarantees were scaled back and repriced as a result. Now risk management is driving a US-led surge of innovation. Laurie Carver reports
New hope for insurance-linked securities
Since the financial crisis the insurance-linked securities market has been squeezed into a tight corridor of issuance with only natural catastrophe bonds seeing any traction – a blow for a market that pre-2008 appeared to be on the cusp of developing…