Category: ETF, Hedge & Mutual Funds

  • Leeward launches Offshore Canadian Income Fund

    Leeward Offshore Canadian Income Fund has launched the Leeward Offshore Income Trust Fund, which will invest solely in Canadian income trusts. Leeward Hedge Funds Inc (Leeward) has been appointed investment advisor to the new fund, the sixth for which Leeward provides investment advisory services. The Cayman Islands registered fund will utilize leverage and its objective…

  • India Capital Fund wins 2005 Asiahedge award

    India Capital Management Ltd which has a total AUM of US$200M is proud to announce that it has won the “Best Single Country Fund of the Year” at the 2005 AsiaHedge Awards for it’s Fund, the India Capital Fund, presented last week on 20th October in Hong Kong. It was also nominated for the same…

  • Private interest could create more gold funds

    The five gold-backed investment funds already traded around the world could be the tip of the iceberg if investors allocate more of their funds to the metal, an official at the World Gold Council said this week. “We are just starting to see a transition,” Katharine Pulvermacher, head of asset allocation research at the World…

  • Fund managers are in poachers’ sights

    We all know how important a manager is to the success of a fund, but the poaching of top talent has become so widespread in the asset management industry that it is threatening to undermine investor confidence. Fund-hopping is an occupational hazard for Robert Burdett, who runs several funds of funds for Credit Suisse Asset…

  • Affordable offshore investing

    For Deutsche Bank and the JSE, the launch of Itrix, their range of international exchange traded funds (ETFs), could not have come at a better time amid fierce public debate on fund management fees. An ETF is a basket of shares that passively tracks an underlying index and is itself listed on a stock exchange.…

  • Cayman Islands attracting 35 new Funds per week

    Attracted by the jurisdiction’s light tax and regulatory touch, the Cayman Islands authorities are registering almost 35 new funds per week, according to Gary Linford, head of the Investment and Securities Division of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Speaking at a fund industry seminar in Jamaica last month, Mr Linford noted that the Cayman Islands…

  • Cheaper way yet to invest offshore

    Two new funds will be listed at the JSE Securities Exchange on October 6. Two new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) based on international indices are to be listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in October, opening up cheaper access to foreign markets for individuals and retirement funds. Until now, most foreign investments offered by the…

  • Market timing hedge funds are not extinct yet, a new study finds

    NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Mutual fund timing — the controversial hedge fund strategy which plagued mutual funds and was stamped out by U.S. regulators — lives on offshore and could eventually come back to the U.S., according to a new report. In a study titled “Hedge Fund Demand and Capacity,” Van Hedge Fund Advisors, a…

  • Barclays Global Investors Offers 7 More Ishares Funds In Japan

    TOKYO (BUSINESS WIRE), Aug 24, 2005 – Barclays Global Investors (BGI), a worldwide leader in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and one of the largest global asset managers, announced today that Japan’s Financial Service Agency has received notification of the following ETFs to be sold as offshore investment funds through brokers in Japan: iShares(R) S&P 500…