Asset management
ETFs in Latin America
In the first five months of 2009, the Latin American exchange-traded funds (ETFs) industry had 11 locally domiciled ETFs, 174 exchange listings and assets of $7.47 billion from two providers on two exchanges.
Basic ETF structure and Ucits
ETFs have distinctive features. Each ETF is designed to track a specific index. They provide access to investment styles, asset classes, markets and different sectors.
Gradual rise in Shariah compliant ETFs
The first Shariah compliant ETF was launched in January 2007. Since then the evolution in the methodologies used by index providers to create appropriate Shariah compliant indices has resulted in well-defined indices acceptable to a broad constituency of…
Hope for a better future
Marketing and distribution of hedge funds in Italy remains difficult. Although the industry suffered a catastrophic fall in assets under management at the end of 2008, signs are the sector is picking up. Hedge Funds Review looks at the future of the…
David Harding, managing director and head of research at Winton Capital
A head for numbers
GAM Trading Strategy: GAM
Prudent approach to trading strategies
Martin Currie Absolute Return Fund - Japan Fund: Martin Currie Investment Management
Ignore Japan at your peril
Investable indexes - June 2009
Credit Suisse /Tremont Hedge Fund Index - Dow Jones Hedge Fund Benchmarks - Frontier Capital Multi-Asset Platform Fund - Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index - HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index - Lyxor Global hedge Fund Index
Changing times
If any doubters remain, they are few and far between. The hedge fund world, even before the imposition of widescale regulation and oversight, has fundamentally changed. How the industry will develop, however, is not certain.
Mini boom
As the prime brokerage heavyweights are forced to reassess their business models, so called mini-primes specialising in servicing small and mid-sized hedge funds are booming. Kris Devasabai reports
Interesting times for global bond market
The bond market has not been immune to the global economic crisis. Investor confidence has been shaken. However, the overall lack of liquidity has increased the importance of bond markets as a source of finance for companies and governments.
Transparency and liquidity still seen as top priority
What is the most important lesson for hedge funds coming out of the financial crisis?
Tangible infrastructure promises stability
As investors continue to be wary of the more exotic strategies, many are looking at infrastructure where real tangible assets and investments could reap high returns. Kris Devasabai examines the interest in this sector as governments around the globe…
AA for effort
Profile
On debt row
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Primus restructures $1.2 billion of CDSs on monolines
New York-based credit derivatives product company (CDPC) Primus Financial Products has restructured $1.2 billion of credit derivatives protection the firm had written referencing a monoline insurer.
Bank of England to buy up commercial paper
The Bank of England yesterday announced its intention to buy asset-backed commercial paper from struggling UK companies in a continuing effort to increase the flow of credit, starting on Monday August 3.
Billions more deficit for PBGC after GM bankruptcy
The bankruptcy of General Motors has left the pension schemes of the company's bankrupt supplier Delphi in the hands of the US Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) - adding an estimated $6.2 billion to the corporation's already massive deficit.
Knowing the unknowns is important says Crazon Capital
Corazon Capital chairman Ian Morley believes the only thing that goes up in a down market is the correlation of the non-correlated assets of a portfolio. In a critique of the current investment environment, Morley was scathing about the "beta providers…
Singapore fund targets Far East opportunities
The road to the formation of Republic Investment Management (RIM) was unconventional. Two factors made it happen.
Commodities key to portfolio diversification
Shaun Port, chief investment officer at Fitzwilliam Asset Management, is passionate about commodities. He has been running multi-managers since 1995 and multi-strategy funds since 2003. Commodities, he believes, should be an essential part of any…
Blackwater eyes UK property
"I take the approach of buying in difficult times, asset managing and selling to achieve profit," says property investor Henry Gwyn-Jones, general manager of Blackwater Asset Management. He is not shy about his talent. "It is fair to say that in my…
Investable indexes - May 2009
Credit Suisse /Tremont Hedge Fund Index - Dow Jones Hedge Fund Benchmarks - Frontier Capital Multi-Asset Platform Fund - Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index - HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index - Lyxor Global hedge Fund Index