Luxembourg UCITS emerging as global brand – ALFI’s Voss
A Luxembourg UCITS fund is becoming a recognised global brand, said Denise Voss, the new president of the country’s fund industry association.
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A Luxembourg UCITS fund is becoming a recognised global brand, said Denise Voss, the new president of the country’s fund industry association.
Jean-Charles de le Court tells EIE’s Dylan Emery how he goes about selecting managers for his ‘fund-of satellites’ strategy. He explains why he is not so much focused on volatility, but insists on managers who invest in their own funds.
Inflows into alternative Ucits funds broke an all-time record for the second consecutive month in March. According to Morningstar’s European fund flows data, investors poured in €8.7bn over the month. Total net inflows in the first three months of the year now total € 19.8bn. Multistrategy funds remain the most popular category, with €3.3bn in…
José Luis Borges, head of institutional portfolios at BPI Gestao de Activos, is now underweight government bonds, and tells EIE’s Tjibbe Hoekstra why he has been investing in equity long/short strategies as an alternative.
Mattias Hagen, head of manager research for SEB Wealth Management in Stockholm, talks EIE’s Dylan Emery through the impact MiFID II will have on the way he selects funds.
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Investors in Germany are aware of an inconvenient truth: to have a reasonable chance to achieve their return targets, they need to take more risk.
Net sales of European investment funds reached an all-time high of 601bn in 2014 with UCITS sales almost doubling, a report revealed today.
Appetite for alternative Ucits products among fund selectors in Barcelona has come down considerably since October. Especially long/short bond funds have fallen out of grace.
Event-driven strategies enjoyed the largest relative inflows of all alternative Ucits categories in the second half of 2014, but showed the worst performance.
The hedge fund industry is under strong competitive pressure to change, yet managers remain generally optimistic, according to a survey from State Street.
Luxembourg, Europe’s biggest largest domicile for Ucits funds, is looking for diversification. The country wants to attract more alternative investment funds, and non-Ucits funds which focus on sustainable investing.