Multi-asset

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

Standard & Poor's Mike McGlone says the development of the company's commodities index has helped the asset class grow in popularity.

BDO's Neil Fung-On says investment managers are failing to address the risks associated with the Alternative Investment Fund Manager's directive.

The FSA has published rules funds of alternative investment funds must abide by.

AEGON Asset Management has launched its first absolute return fund to be run by its UK equity team.

Ignis has warned investors in its £510m UK Property fund to expect a short-term drop in capital values but believes returns will remain positive.

OPM Fund Management has upped the ante in its ongoing battle with Octopus Investments over rights to the acronym OPM.

Jupiter's Philip Gibbs has opened up a net short position on "overvalued" UK commercial property stocks as the manager develops a number of early themes into his new Absolute Return fund.

The rally in equities, credit and commodities from March last year neatly fits the pattern of the market discounting an economic recovery six months ahead of the turn in the (backward-looking) data.

Henry Dixon, fund manager at Matterley, looks at whether the real estate sector is displaying value.