Unigestion, an institutional asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with a tailor-made range of risk-managed investment solutions, announces the launch of its Private Debt Allocator tool, which identifies private debt opportunities to exactly match clients’ (...)
Lyxor launches the first ETF on the top rated high yield corporate bonds
Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) announces the launch of an ETF that offers investors access to EUR-denominated corporate bonds with the highest sub-investment grade credit rating in order to offer a potential higher (...)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers and ETF Securities join forces to offer fundamental fixed income exchange traded funds
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (“Lombard Odier IM”), a pioneer in smart beta fixed income investing, and ETF Securities, one of the world’s leading innovators of exchange traded products (“ETPs”), have partnered to offer a range of transparent, cost-effective and (...)
Source launches currency-hedged share classes of its JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF
Source, a leading provider of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), is pleased to announce the launch of USD- and EUR-hedged share classes of the Source JPX-Nikkei 400 UCITS ETF. At the same time, Source has reduced the annual management fee on the unhedged ETF to 0.20% from (...)
CalPERS Reports Preliminary 2012-13 Fiscal Year Performance of 12.5 Percent
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today reported a 12.5 percent return on investments for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2013, outperforming its benchmark by 1.5 percentage points. CalPERS assets at the end of the fiscal year stood at more than (...)
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.8% in April, bringing year-to-date performance to +3.2%. 12 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor L/S Equity Market Neutral Index (+3.9%), the Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.0%) and the (...)
Hedge funds advance in march, looking beyond Europe
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.62% in March, bringing year-to-date performance to +2.36%. 10 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+2.09%), the Lyxor L/S Equity Long Bias (+1.41%) and the (...)
Alternatives proved resilient despite mixed signals from Washington and Rome
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +0.15% in February, bringing year-to-date performance to +1.73%. 8 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 14 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+2.06%), the Lyxor L/S Equity Market Neutral (+1.65%) (...)