Combining qualitative analysis with statistical examination helps Société Générale Private Banking cut risk, not returns.

Custodians say that hedge fund managers and clients will suffer if Brussels acts too strictly on the custodianship of fund assets.

It is a good idea to be choosy when selecting a partner, but this might be difficult for German managers.

Allocators believe that there are not enough experienced local European distressed debt managers to satisfy the investment potential that lies ahead.

The race is on for European managers to have managers in emerging Asia. Mirae Asset Global Investment outlines why being there for 14 years provides an edge.

Asset manager AllianceBernstein has bolstered its European sales team in a hiring spree from Schroders and Pioneer Investments, and a fixed income product manager from Overlay Asset Management.

Germany, once widely regarded as the European nation most inimical to hedge funds, is now warming to the sector with allocators across the spectrum considering or actually making investments.

Sarasin & Partners has re-domiciled its $1bn Guernsey unit trust range to Dublin to make use of wider investment powers under Ucits IV, and to widen its distribution opportunities to Europe.

Schroders has hired Tanja Engel from American Express to be the asset manager’s chief operating officer in Frankfurt.

Pimco has joined a growing list of rivals in saying America’s housing market will fall further, and predicts lenders will foreclose on up to seven million more homeowners by 2015, having done so on two million already.