TOBAM launches the Anti-Benchmark Emerging Markets Equity Fund
The Fund aims to outperform the emerging markets equity cap-weighted benchmark by 4-6%per annum over a market cycle, while at the same time delivering significantlyless volatility (typically 30%).
Created by two former senior executive managers of SGAM AI, Exqim launches Exqim Blue Fund, a multi-asset fund whose investment process is based on quantitative strategies and allocation.
H2O Asset Management launches a range of Global Macro UCIT funds: H2O Patrimoine, H2O Multibonds, H2O Adagio, H2O Moderato
At the crossroads of classic and alternative asset management, H2O Asset Management’s objective is to meet the needs and expectations of institutional, corporate and private clients for long?lasting, transparent and liquid performance asset (...)
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index gained 0.2% in September (+2.2% in 2012). 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Event Driven - Special Situations Index (+2.2%) and the Lyxor L/S Equity – Long Bias Index (...)
Fixed-income instruments exhibited significant performance across all risk classes: worldwide and US high-grade (1.01% and 0.93% respectively), convertibles (0.95%), and the credit-spread index (0.66%)…
Discus Fund, one of CFM flagship funds, posted 23 percent year-to-date positive returns as of october end, the best performance amongst all the global systematic funds. This is the confirmation the know-how of the French manager which has shown exceptional trackrecords for (...)
What about performances of active management versus passive management ? According to a study released by Olivier Scaillet and Gilles Criton, nearly 20% of alternative fund managers beat the market, against only 0,6% of traditional (...)
John Paulson has lost nearly $ 500 million betting on Sino-Forest
Paulson & co and many other fund management companies have been caught by the markets after the revelations about Sino-Forest real wealth. Is it a lesson taught to the funds invested in shares of companies expected to capture growth in emerging markets (...)