Alternative Ucits AUM hits record high
Alternative Ucits AUM has exceeded 100bn for the first time following a strong first half of the year.
Alternatives
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Aquila boosts team with senior hire
Dorothee Goerz has been hired to head up a new Aquila Capital equity fund, and will be based in the firm’s London office.
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coral hits back at brandeaux over contrary
Asset management firm, Coral Portfolio, which runs a student accommodation fund, has hit back at recent statements made by competitor Brandeaux on the state of the student housing market.
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JLIF acquires portfolio
The John Laing Infrastructure Fund (JLIF) has agreed the acquisition of 11 operational and yielding assets in a deal worth around £123m.
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Fund managers remain unprepared for AIFMD deadline
Only 15% of alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) are ready to meet the requirements of the alternative investment fund managers’ directive (AIFMD), despite it becoming law next month.
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UBS launches diversified commodities ETF
UBS Global Asset Management has launched a new commodities ETF which tracks the UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Total Return Index, a benchmark weighted according to economic and liquidity data and individual commodities’ global consumption patterns.
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Natural resources steeled for an uptick
Natural resources are an attractive long term investment proposition while record low valuations of assets make this the ideal time to invest across the asset class according to one fund management team.
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Post-crisis Europe draws US hedge fund
US distressed debt hedge fund manager Monarch Capital is opening a London office in a bid to establish its long-term commitment to European investing.
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Returning to First Principles
Charlotte Thorne, co-CI0 and co-founding partner at Captial Generation Partners looks at how best to use private equity investments as a portfolio diversifier.
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Private real estate remains in the doldrums
Private real estate fundraising reached a ten-year low in the first quarter of 2013, as 20 funds closed raising just $5.2bn.
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advisers torn between client demand hedge funds
Over one-third of investors feel advisers are not sufficiently clued up on Ucits hedge funds despite research showing that blindly allocating to the vehicles for diversification purposes can be damaging to portfolios.
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New property fund targets student houses
Luxembourg Fund Partners has launched a new fund targeting investments in student houses in prime markets such as Edinburgh and Cambridge.
