Liquid Alts.

Liquid alternatives rose in March along with their traditional hedge fund brethren, according to new research from Wilshire Associates, as the company's Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index slightly outperformed its comparable hedge fund industry benchmark during the period.

Hong Kong-based Mirae Asset Global Investments has launched a new UCITS-compliant multi-asset fund that will focus on the Asia-Pacific region. 

Lyxor Asset Management has joined forces with London-based hedge fund manager Harmonic Capital Partners to launch a new UCITS-compliant global macro fund.

Harvest Global Investments, the international arm of Asian asset management giant Harvest Fund Management, has debuted a UCITS-compliant sub-fund that will invest in Chinese equity or equity-related securities and provide investors with access to all Chinese investment channels.

Allianz Global Investors has debuted a new liquid alternative equity fund aimed at investing in companies engaged in artificial intelligence development and applications. 

For the second time this month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has denied a proposal to list an exchange-traded product tracking the price of bitcoin, citing the same core reasons a similar request from the Winklevoss brothers was rejected in early March: the digital currency's underlying trading markets lack surveillance-sharing agreements, and those markets are unregulated.

Alternative asset manager FS Investments has debuted its first closed-end interval fund in partnership with Chicago-based Magnetar Capital that will invest in the equity and debt securities of both public and private energy and energy infrastructure companies.

Frankfurt-based institutional asset manager Union Investment has reportedly launched a new multi-credit fund aimed at combatting the current low-yield environment. 

Cliff Asness’ quantitative asset manager AQR has debuted two new UCITS-compliant funds that focus on global long/short absolute return and systematic total return, respectively.

ML Capital has announced the launch of a new UCITS-compliant convertible absolute return fund on its Montlake platform in partnership with convertibles specialist Quest Global Advisors.