Asset management
Standardised process would cut time needed for approval
Single strategy funds looking for added flexibility
Options in both robust and troubled US market
With rationality returning to the US markets, long/short investment is a popular and effective strategy
Sharpe practice
Schroders' emerging markets Astra fund is aiming to achieve good returns with a Sharpe ratio of about one and two-thirds the volatility of its benchmark
Hedge funds excluded from Ucit-qualifying portfolios
directive restricts exposure to short-selling
Rothschilds offers fund of market neutral funds
Rothschilds takes a historic step away from its traditional multi-manager structure with focused product