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February, 2018
Psigma launches inflation-plus strategy for fixed income investors
Psigma Investment Management has launched a fixed interest strategy which aims to produce inflation-beating returns and give a diversified credit exposure. The strategy is aimed at charities and pension funds and it aims to produce a net return of 4-7% a year from a range of underlying UK and overseas credit opportunities. Psigma said that the strategy ...
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February, 2018
EisnerAmper opens London office for asset managers
A leading provider of accounting, tax and consulting services to financial and asset management firms, EisnerAmper, has opened a London office. The office will be headed by Robert Mirsky, head of the firm’s asset management group. “As Brexit unfolds, Europe is facing an unprecedented period of economic and regulatory challenges and opportunities,” ...
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February, 2018
Macquarie acquires Luxembourg-based value specialist
Macquarie Investment Management is to acquire ValueInvest Asset Management, a Luxembourg-based specialist in value investing in global and Japanese equities. ValueInvest has assets of approximately €4 billion under management, and the deal with Macquarie is expected to close in mid-2018. The firm was founded in 1998 and has a team of 17 professionals. ...
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February, 2018
Lombard Odier IM launches equity long-short strategy
Lombard Odier Investment Managers has hired Arnaud Langlois to launch a global equity long-short investment strategy with a sustainability focus. Langlois will join Lombard Odier IM as a portfolio manager, along with senior analyst, Cyrus Azamgin, to launch the strategy in the second quarter of 2018 with $100 million in committed capital. Lombard Odier ...
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February, 2018
Prestige Funds sees direct lending assets pass $100 million
Direct lending specialist Prestige Funds has raised over $100 million in assets from institutional investors in the UK and beyond, as investors increasingly use direct lending to find yield and diversify. Prestige’s Commercial Finance Opportunities (CFO) fund uses the expertise of a large direct lending team of nearly 100 staff at Nucleus Commercial ...
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February, 2018
PAAMCO launches alternative beta platform
Hedge fund manager-of-manager and consultant PAAMCO has launched PAAMCO Alternative Beta to offer a portfolio of alternative risk premia strategies for investors. The alternative beta platform will be run by Lisa Fridman and Philippe Jorion, as co-heads. Fridman will continue as global head of research at PAAMCO and Jorion will remain as head of risk ...
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December, 2017
UBS AM launches sustainability ETF
UBS Asset Management has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) with exposure to companies with strong records on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in both developed and emerging markets. The ETF is available in US dollar and sterling versions and is based on physical replication of the underlying assets. The ETF replicates the MSCI ACWI ...
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December, 2017
MSIM introduces China A-Shares Fund
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched a Luxembourg SICAV domiciled fund version of its China A-shares fund, which was previously only available to institutional investors in a separate account format. The fund aims to capitalise on pricing anomalies and inefficiencies in the A-shares market, through a high-conviction portfolio of ...
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December, 2017
HFR launches blockchain and cryptocurrency indices
Hedge fund data provider HFR has launched two new indices to reflect investor interest in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, with the HFR Blockchain Composite Index and HFR Cryptocurrency Index. HFR’s blockchain index includes funds that invest in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency or other new innovations around blockchain. The HFR ...
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December, 2017
IFM raises $2.15 billion in 15 months
Infrastructure manager IFM Investors has announced that it has raised $2.15 billion from 29 investors in Europe and the Middle East in infrastructure equity and debt mandates in the period from July 2016 to the end of September 2017. IFM raised another $3 billion globally in the same period, as part of the increased institutional demand around the world ...
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