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Roodhals Capital's Branta Solutions fund will launch a dollar class in April, to accommodate American investors interested in sustainable investments.
28 Mar 2012
Brazilian agricultural exports will continue to rise despite infrastructure problems, said Ralf Oberbannscheidt, portfolio manager at DWS Invest Global Agribusiness.
28 Mar 2012
Prime property in Europe is no longer driven by fundamentals and looks expensive, warned speakers at the launch of IPD's pan-European Property Fund Index.
28 Mar 2012
Precious metals trader Sharps Pixley said that despite the past week's volatility in the gold price there are still those in the industry who feel it could hit $1,800-$2,000 in 2012.
28 Mar 2012
Esty Dwek of HSBC Private Bank's investment strategy team looks at the factors influencing the price of gold, and asks whether the price is set to trade in a limited range for the time being.
28 Mar 2012
The International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have launched an ISDA/IIFM Mubadalatul Arbaah (Profit Rate Swap) product standard, to be used for Islamic hedging purposes.
27 Mar 2012
Commonly used hedge fund databases suffer problems of bias, missing data and limitations in identifying correlations between factors such as age and size of funds and their performances, according to academic research from the UK and Finland.
27 Mar 2012
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco) is conducting a second hedge fund survey in September to identify systemic risks in the market.
27 Mar 2012
The financial crisis has created significant opportunities for investors in private debt, says James Witter, head of Investment Advisory & Solutions at SVG Advisers.
26 Mar 2012
Yield-enhancement strategies that can tackle the challenge of low interest rates and provide downside protection are gaining popularity among institutional and professional investors in Asia.
26 Mar 2012
The alternative investment industry is often regarded as ‘thinking differently', but even within that community, some managers are taking alternative routes to making money for clients. The Latin American portion of PineBridge's global private equity team is arguably one of them.
26 Mar 2012
Implied volatility levels for out of the money put options have not fallen as sharply as those for at the money puts during recent weeks, and this has made protective hedging trades such as short-dated put spreads attractive for those investors who believe "markets cannot go up forever", according to Macro Risk Advisors.
26 Mar 2012
Francois Boisson expects to begin fundraising for new start-up venture in May
23 Mar 2012
With oil prices seemingly on the rise towards a record $150 per barrel mark, driven by geopolitical as well as supply-side problems, the issue of the US dependency on oil and foreign supply is again moving to the fore.
23 Mar 2012
Savills, the international property firm whose investment arm recently expanded operations in Germany, has helped Italian fashion chain Calzedonia to expand in Europe's largest market via two new shops in Essen.
22 Mar 2012Regions
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Fund managers discuss the changee that may damage their offshore fund model, but not kill their industry.
Events
InvestmentEurope's country specific forum for France takes place in Paris on 22 May 2012.
InvestmentEurope's country specific forum for Italy takes place in Milan on 12 June 2012.
