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The Federal Reserve has a Christmas present for banks: Wall Street banks have more time for the divestment of hedge fund and private equity investments.
The General Assembly of the United Nations has voted for the development of supranational rules regulating the restructuring of external sovereign debt.
Hedge funds using automated trading systems have performed very well in November. Overall, they are more profitable than many human asset managers, says Bloomberg.
DeAWM has asked in a survey, what investors care about when investing in alternative investments and depending on which criteria they chose investments.
Within the group of hedge funds, which made just 0.3 percent last month, global macro funds have been the best performing strategy with 1.7 percent performance. This is still below the average market performance.
The financial markets seem to be interested in India again. More investments have been made in Indian stocks than in any other emerging market ones. India’s turnaround seems to have taken place.
Investors are disappointed by hedge fund performances and reduce their investments in hedge funds. This has increased hedge fund closures to the highest number since the financial crisis.
Several members of the US-Investors-Organisation AOI demand that performance fees are only payable if hedge funds exceeds their benchmarks or minimum returns.
ETFs investing in equities have gained inflows within the last months. On the other hand gold and bond products faced outflows.
Singapore is going to surpass Switzerland as the global centre for wealth and asset management for high-net-worth individuals.
The alternative UK property investment market will grow to 20 billion GBP by 2019 according to property investment agents Jones Lang LaSalle.
The British insurance company Aviva shuts down its unit investing in external hedge funds, said the company on Wednesday.
MSCI announced a global index measuring the investment performance of infrastructure projects based on USD $49 billion of infrastructure investments.
After a hearing of two experts in front of a Senate committee on Friday where banks’ activities in commodities where questioned, the Fed wants to review its regulatory policies regarding commodity trades.
The swiss investment firm Strategic Capital Management (SCM) is taken over by the Mercer Group. The whole investment team of SCM switches to Mercer to strengthen their position in alternative investments.
State Street has sold it’s entire hedge funds business within a Management Buyout to their leading employees. At the end of 2013, the sold hedge funds were managing 1.4 Billion USD.
The G20 decided on this weekends summit in Australia on additional investments of $2 trillion in infrastructure, trade and climate protection.
The G20 will discuss about the regulation of shadow banks like hedge funds and money market funds on their next summit this weekend.
The swiss fund association SFAMA advices investors to invest more in alternative investments like hedge funds and private equity.
The Winkelvoss brothers’ bitcoin ETF is still under review of the SEC. If it gets approval, a broad basis of investors could invest in bitcoins but how does the ETF work?