Liquid Alts.

Liquid alternatives provider Context Asset Management has disclosed that assets under management for its Context Macro Opportunities Fund have surpassed $100 million at its one-year anniversary. 

Wilshire Associates has signed the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), committing the asset manager and index provider to integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into its investment practices, ownership policies, and business strategies.

All six of the investable hedge fund replication indices from IndexIQ posted positive performances during July, the latest data point to confirm improving results among alternative investment managers. 

Liquid alternative investments gained in July as managers profited from the intense volatility at the start of the month, according to new data from liquid alt index provider Wilshire Associates.

Franklin Templeton and its alternatives unit K2 Advisors have partnered again on the launch of a liquid alternative mutual fund, this time aiming at a multi-manager macro strategy. 

The HFRU Hedge Fund Composite Index, which measures UCITS compliant hedge funds, tracked favorably with their hedge fund brethren and gained 1.52% in July, according to an update from Hedge Fund Research.

Nikko Asset Management has unveiled a new UCITS-compliant global credit fund that will target an absolute return of 4% and an excess return of 1.5% against the benchmark Barclays Global Aggregate Corporate Index.

Liquid alternative strategies didn’t escape the heightened volatility of the second quarter, according to the latest edition of Wilshire Associates’ Liquid Alternatives Industry Monitor.

Kumar Palghat, Bill Gross's co-manager on Janus Capital's Global Unconstrained Bond fund, will manage a new short-duration, actively managed bond ETF that will aim to deliver 2-3% above benchmark LIBOR rates.

Global asset servicing specialist MUFG Investor Services has agreed to acquire '40-Act fund administrator Rydex Fund Services from investment manager Guggenheim Investments.