alternative investments

FIVE THINGS

Fiona Murphy looks at the growing interest in Islamic pension products and SIPP investments

APPRENTICE

Fiona Murphy asks what trends advisers and providers are seeing in SIPP investments

Geneva-based investment company Alix Capital has upgraded its global financial data management platform, FDM, to offer a more robust and speedier UCITS hedge funds data management and index calculation function to the market.

There's a growing number of investment managers looking to Ireland for product and service solutions ahead of publication of the Level 2 implementing measures of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), reports the Irish Funds Industry...

The FSA's decision to restrict the sale of traded life policy investments (TPLIs) looks likely to spread to other alternative investments, according to a law firm and life settlement trade body.

The Luxembourg-based UCITS Alternative Investable Index Fund is to waive its management fee to become the first fund management company in the alternative UCITS' space to charge performance fees only.

Jersey plans to make further inroads into the alternative funds sector with the introduction of its 'fast track' Private Placement Fund.

City Asset Management (CAM) has launched its unitised discretionary portfolio offering on the Skandia platform.