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Five of Switzerland’s largest pension funds are behind a new infrastructure investment platform, structured as an evergreen, which had its first closing at CHF 300m (€ 247m) with a substantially higher target volume.
Convoy Investment LLC, a global macro hedge fund, is going to apply another fee structure to their fund and differ from the established performance fee.
Commodity ETFs (exchange traded funds) are an easy way to invest in commodities without physically purchasing the underlying.
Emerging markets are more afraid of interest rate policy changes by the FED than of any other thread due to possible pressure on their currencies and debt.
Investors divest from futures and invest that money into ETFs in order to save money and achieve comparable returns.
Some experts say that the M&A market is overstretched. Due to the high share prices and the low interest rate, a lot of expensive M&A deals are pursued that do not enhance corporate growth.
While banks face issues as scandals, low margins and a sharp regulatory climate, most stop or sell their physical commodity trading departments.
Managed futures are delivering the worst performance of all alternative investment classes.
Emerging market ETFs gained a capital inflow of $109 million during this year. While they lost $13.9 billion in the first two months of 2014, investors are returning to exchange traded products investing in emerging markets.
Deutsche Bank and Barclays helped 13 hedge funds to avoid paying billions of taxes during a 15 year period, says a US Senate’s subcommittee investigation.
Beside returns close or even below market benchmarks, institutional investors are still willing to allocate money towards hedge funds.
Short ETFs, or inverse or bear ETFs, are exchange traded products that hold a short position in an underlying index. They profit if the index declines in price.
A timeline of the Argentina debt crisis including the most important dates as well as some background information and possible outcomes and their effects.
The SEC is investigating in 44 investment firms due to a possible violation of insider trading laws concerning the purchase of shares of health insurances before a government announcement in April 2013.
A short roundup of what institutional investors and asset managers have been investing in and divesting from during the last months.
Investors look for a more institutional business model of hedge funds. According to a Deutsche Bank study, hedge funds will face “challenges in regulatory, reputational, business and operational risks, in addition to delivering returns”.
After negative performance of hedge funds in March and April, average hedge fund performance in May was at 1.00%. Event driven strategies performed best with 2.66%.
Blackstone, today’s largest investor in hedge funds already, is going to manage an own hedge fund for the first time.
Despite the bullish stock market in the last five years and concerns about the valuation of equity, ETFs investing in equities were the most popular ones among all ETFs.
As the US Department for Commerce stated yesterday (June 25, 2014) the US GDP fell by three percent during the first quarter of 2014.