Legg Mason Inc, one of the world’s largest active asset management firms with $754 billion AuM, announces the launch of the Legg Mason Martin Currie Global Emerging Markets Fund into their Dublin-based fund range.
TOBAM launches first Bitcoin mutual fund in Europe
TOBAM, the Smart Beta pioneer, announced today the launch of the TOBAM Bitcoin Fund, an unregulated Alternative Investment Fund, set up in France. The fund, the first of its kind in Europe, will allow qualified and institutional investors wanting to gain an exposure to the (...)
BNP Paribas Asset Management launches European loan fund and appoints new credit analysts
Building on the success of its global corporate loan fund, BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) has launched BNP Paribas Flexi III European Senior Corporate Loans and appointed two new credit analysts.
Amundi offers physically-backed investments in Italian agri-food underlyings
Amundi, the European leader in asset management with € 1.400 trillion in assets under management, innovates with a private debt fund for professional investors, backed by physical stocks in iconic Italian food products such as Parma and San Daniele ham, and Parmesan (...)
Amundi unveils the first European Equity Multi-Factor Market Neutral ETF
Amundi ETF continues to innovate with the launch of the first European Equity Multi Factor Market Neutral ETF. Available on Euronext Paris, it will also be listed on the main European stock exchanges in the coming (...)
Mixed outlook for L/S Equity Neutral and Short-Selling
Lyxor’s L/S Equity Neutral peer group was down -2.8% year-to-date, hurt by extreme trading conditions and the constituents’ average market beta of 20%. The environment has been challenging for the strategy amid extreme stock volatility and unsettling heavy systematic trading (...)
In the space of alternative strategies, Global Macro and Event-Driven strategies rebounded the most since March 23rd. Both Merger Arbitrage and Special Situations sub strategies benefitted as M&A deal spreads tightened significantly since (...)
ESMA report values EU Alternative Investment Funds at €5.8 trillion
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its second statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF). The study found that the EU AIF sector in 2018, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to €5.8tn or nearly 40% (...)
BlackRock achieves a $1 billion record first close for its third-vintage global renewables fund
BlackRock Real Assets has achieved a US$1 billion first close for its Global Renewable Power III fund (“GRP III,”) with commitments from over 35 institutional investors in North America, Europe and Asia.
Going forward, our stance remains defensive on equities, in particular on European, Japanese and EM markets (UW). In the space of alternative strategies, we prefer Market Neutral L/S vs. Directional L/S, despite the fact that the latter has adopted a cautious stance in (...)