Investing Institutions and the Persistent UCITS Hedge Funds Performance Gap

By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight It was noted in Hedge Fund Insight in May this year that most of the capital raised by European hedge funds in 2013 had gone into UCITS versions of the funds rather than the offshore versions of those hedge funds.   At the time the comment was […] Read more »

European Hedge Fund Industry Joins In The Growth

By Simon Kerr, Hedge Fund Insight From immaturity around 1997 through the mid 2000’s the European hedge fund industry grew faster than that of the country which invented the concept, the United States of America. For the period since the Credit Crunch the European industry has been a lot less vigorous than the American scene, […] Read more »

Half Of UCITS Hedge Flows Into Fixed Income

By HFI Staff Writer Last year UCITS hedge funds assets under management (AUM) increased by 20% to reach a new high of €140 billion. The latest quarterly European research on the UCITS hedge funds industry published by Alix Capital, the Geneva-based provider of the UCITS Alternatives Index (UAI) family of indices, reveals that more than […] Read more »