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Hedge fund managers running Ucits III-compliant long/short products returned 5% more than peers from the traditional long-only space over the past year, research has found.

Debating with Hugh Hendry earlier this week on Newsnight, European Socialist Party president Poul Nyrup Rasmussen implied Greece needed hedge funds like a hole in the head.

Schroders'Simon Webber is planning to increase exposure to renewable stocks believing prices are about to reach rock bottom.

Greek debt will remain volatile until Athens takes financial support from the EU or IMF, according to Stephen Drew.

The directors of Nevsky Capital's $3.3bn hedge fund are thought not to be actively planning to recruit replacement managers when incumbents Martin Taylor and Nick Barnes step down in 12 months.

Of all the jobs in the long/short world, running an emerging markets hedge fund is probably the toughest.

The directors of Nevsky Capital's $3.3bn hedge fund are thought not to be actively planning to recruit replacement managers when incumbents Martin Taylor and Nick Barnes step down in 12 months.

Nevsky Capital's Martin Taylor and Nick Barnes are to resign their duties on the firm's flagship emerging markets hedge fund in 12 months' time.

London's RWC Partners says it will launch Ucits variants of each new hedge fund it establishes as long as the strategy meets key criteria.

Do hedge fund managers really have the relevant skills to successfully manage regulated, Ucits III products?