alternative investments

Barclays has launched an investment strategy to give investors exposure to the Vix volatility index.

Renaissance Asset Managers has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled fund aiming to tap into growth in the frontier markets.

Aberdeen Asset Management has renamed its £24bn alternative investment offering, which includes its multi-manager range, to better reflect strategies within the business.

Funds under management at Man Group-owned GLG shrank by $1bn in the three months to the end of 2011, according to a trading statement released today.

Equity returns were poor in 2011 during a rollercoaster year for markets, but there were a number of bright spots in the alternative investments space.

HEDGE FUNDS

Capita Financial Managers, which wants Arch Cru investors to accept a payoff linked to the sale of assets from the suspended fund range, has admitted that three-quarters of the remaining value of the cells is uncertain.

ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

Real estate is one of the few asset classes to provide reasonable positive returns year to date, but is this sustainable? asks Simon Kinnie, senior real estate analyst Standard Life Investments.

Kames Capital has poached three property multi-managers from ING Real Estate Investment Management.