News

• Portman Square heads new bank prop spin-out wave

  22 Jun 2012

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  Pressure builds as equity funds tumble again in euro mayhem

  22 Jun 2012

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  Highly-rated Danish Maj Invest team start novel $200m+ AI-based US equity launch

  22 Jun 2012

• Paris-based Capital Fund Management eyes long-only quant offering in move to diversify business, add institutional scale

  22 Jun 2012

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  Japan veteran Pulsford up and running with $1 billion Eikoh after DB spin-out

  22 Jun 2012

• Wadhwani adds Burridge in new senior advisor role

  22 Jun 2012

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  Man Group taps former Goldman man Sorrell as finance director in new bid to revitalise strategy

  22 Jun 2012

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  Fink’s ISAM recruits Man’s Upton to be head of research in series of new hires to position firm as top-tier CTA group

  22 Jun 2012

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  Staden’s GLC thrives in turbulent markets

  22 Jun 2012

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  London-based European equity boutique MET unveils Asian strategy via managed account ahead of planned fund launch

  22 Jun 2012

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  Ex-RBR Germanic long/short specialist Kentrup gets going with solo Trias fund

  22 Jun 2012

• Man from Atlantis Arvinder Sood and his partners roll out Hanover Square macro/CTA prop trading strategy

  22 Jun 2012

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  Dexion, CSAM team up for LSE-listed launch in growing insurance-linked strategies space

  22 Jun 2012

• Aquila Capital adds ‘farmers who speak finance’ to global agricultural investment team

  22 Jun 2012

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  Cowley builds momentum at MC Squared Global Investors after low-profile first year

  22 Jun 2012

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  Paris firm ABC Arbitrage rolls out high-frequency futures fund

  22 Jun 2012

Features

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  ECM’s Malik relishes turmoil with opportunistic special sits strategy

  22 Jun 2012

  Wells Fargo-owned specialist fixed-income asset manager European Credit Management is stepping up the capital-raising drive for its European special situations hedge fund strategy at a time of escalating drama, volatility and opportunity across the entire crisis-stricken European investment spectrum

Profiles

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  JP Morgan credit spin-out JPS attracts investor inflows on strong track record

  22 Jun 2012

  Just eight months after being spun out of the investment bank into its asset management arm, Fahad Roumani’s credit hedge fund strategy at JP Morgan is nearing the $500m mark – with an impressive run of performance since launch

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  Swiss-based RBR expands remit, rejigs structures for Rhine Alpha equity funds

  22 Jun 2012

  Rudolf Bohli is broadening his firm’s investment reach and its access to onshore and offshore fund investors at a time of high opportunity and risk for long/short investing in Europe

Performance

• Long/shorts battle to limit downside in brutal May

  22 Jun 2012

• Mixed bag of numbers from equity market-neutral and quant strategies

  22 Jun 2012

• Global and EM equity players tumble amid market turmoil

  22 Jun 2012

• Index sheds 1.1% in May as equity funds suffer

  22 Jun 2012

• Managed futures funds make hay on back of trending May markets

  22 Jun 2012

• Winners and losers in macro as dispersion persists

  22 Jun 2012

• Credit managers lose ground in a turbulent climate

  22 Jun 2012

• EM debt heads south

  22 Jun 2012

• Event-driven derailed

  22 Jun 2012

Comment

• Fraud cases do more good than harm to the industry’s reputation

  22 Jun 2012

  These two legal and regulatory decisions should give comfort to anyone with an interest in the long-term health and reputation of the industry

Data

• EuroHedge league tables – May 2012

  22 Jun 2012