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Moyal’s Visio mines South African equity potential through bottom-up approach

Apr 20 2012 Backed by a diverse team of nine portfolio managers, Patrice Moyal’s well-established Visio Capital firm is a leader among South African hedge funds — and is increasingly profiting from the wider African growth story, with a growing focus on investing into other countries on the continent as well

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Rubicon founder Brummette eyes broad macro canvas with new Onewall venture

Central banks have been so supportive and there has been a real tailwind behind risk assets. But there is plenty of potential for shocks
Akay’s Carrhae hits targets with unique market-neutral EM-biased equity fund
Moore spin-out Stone Milliner goes solo as major standalone player in global macro space

Former Moore Capital and Morgan Stanley team have a strong multi-year record of managing risk and generating returns in all market conditions with their liquid and scalable macro strategy run from Zug and London
Verno plays for long-term gains with fundamental-led Russian equity fund

Ex-Kazimir co-founder Dimitri Kryukov’s Verno Russia fund is shaping up well, with good Q1 performance and a positive outlook for equities

Comment

Clouds gather again as the sunny start to 2012 fades

It is difficult to see how economics and markets can be detached again from politics in a year when there
Consolidation: it’s all about culture

What emerges most clearly is the importance of culture when putting together asset management businesses
Managers need to rediscover their mojo – and their alpha

It is more important than ever for managers to understand where their alpha-generating skill lies – and
Systematic strategies shine as the discretionary sparkle dims

The pressure on many funds – even those who have performed excellently over the years – to raise their
The safest port in the storm?

All the recent surveys indicate that investors plan to put more of their money into hedge funds rather

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Equity move marks next major step for BTG Pactual’s fast-growing alternatives group
Prime brokers grapple for best ways to tackle maturing market
European asset growth slows as Eurozone crisis bites hard in H2
Assets in European hedge funds remained stable in 2011 in the face of increasingly severe market and macro headwinds – although the Eurozone crisis took its toll in the second half
New launches in 2011 stay depressed as climate deteriorates in second half
New hedge fund launches in Europe remained at low levels in 2011 against a backdrop of volatile markets and extreme political and macro uncertainty. But the quality of many of the new funds coming through is the highest for many years – and the pace is picking up again

Events

EuroHedge Summit 2012: Top industry players line up for two days of big debate in Paris

With just over a month to go, the final programme for this year’s ninth annual EuroHedge Summit – to be held again at the Palais de la Bourse in Paris on 24-26 April – is nearing completion
EuroHedge Awards 2011: Old and new funds share honours in a tough and very turbulent year

A mix of long-established names and some newer players came through to take the EuroHedge awards this year - after a challenging time in 2011 when volatile markets were largely in the grip of political and macro events

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Global Review 2012
Apr 2012
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UCITS Platform Survey 2011
Dec 2011

This report by AbsoluteUCITS is the most comprehensive survey of the platform UCITS industry covering the responses from some 100 managers. All of the major platforms, accounting for some $9 billion in assets, were contacted and the findings show that platforms allow access to new types of investors as well as the European market.
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UCITS 2012: Broadening the investment universe
Dec 2011

This report analyses and anticipates the opportunities, changes and challenges that this fast-growing sector of the investment world is facing and will face in the future – and how it is responding. DATA INCLUDES: 'Absolute return UCITS funds managing over $1 billion AUM' and 'Hedge fund managers launching or considering launching a UCITS fund'

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Indices April 2012 European regional fund

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Composite

EuroHedge	Apr 12	YTD	%
Composite	-0.14%	2.68%	85%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage EUR	-0.18%	4.33%	80%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage USD	0.39%	5.87%	100%
Credit EUR	0.29%	6.29%	96%
Credit USD	-0.22%	3.36%	85%
Currency	-0.13%	2.07%	62%
Emerging Market Debt USD	0.23%	2.88%	86%
Emerging Market Equity USD	-0.82%	4.24%	75%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies EUR	0.29%	1.17%	83%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies USD	-0.38%	1.13%	93%
European Equity EUR	0.15%	3.63%	82%
European Equity GBP	0.19%	3.77%	73%
European Equity Nordic	0.34%	4.13%	83%
European Equity USD	0.21%	3.75%	79%
Event Driven EUR	-1.27%	4.32%	83%
Event Driven USD	-0.90%	3.00%	83%
Fixed Income EUR	-0.01%	1.90%	72%
Fixed Income USD	0.15%	1.17%	93%
Global Equity EUR	-0.80%	3.86%	85%
Global Equity USD	-0.50%	4.12%	78%
Macro EUR	-0.09%	1.43%	88%
Macro USD	-0.26%	1.43%	85%
Managed Futures EUR	-0.15%	-0.27%	87%
Managed Futures USD	-0.29%	-0.09%	99%
Mixed Arbitrage & Multi-Strategy USD	-0.56%	2.33%	89%

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Moyal’s Visio mines South African equity potential through bottom-up approach

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Prime brokers grapple for best ways to tackle maturing market

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Moyal’s Visio mines South African equity potential through bottom-up approach

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Rubicon founder Brummette eyes broad macro canvas with new Onewall venture

Akay’s Carrhae hits targets with unique market-neutral EM-biased equity fund

Moore spin-out Stone Milliner goes solo as major standalone player in global macro space

Verno plays for long-term gains with fundamental-led Russian equity fund

Comment

Clouds gather again as the sunny start to 2012 fades

Consolidation: it’s all about culture

Managers need to rediscover their mojo – and their alpha

Systematic strategies shine as the discretionary sparkle dims

The safest port in the storm?

Performance Reports

Industry Analysis Subscribe to RSS feed

Events

EuroHedge Summit 2012: Top industry players line up for two days of big debate in Paris

EuroHedge Awards 2011: Old and new funds share honours in a tough and very turbulent year

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Indices April 2012 European regional fund

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Indices April 2012 European regional fund

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