Credit Suisse Introduces ETN

Credit Suisse announced today that for the first time, U.S. investors will be able to access the Credit Suisse/Tremont Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund Index strategy through an exchange-traded product.

The Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN (ticker: CSLS) is designed to correlate to the historical performance of the Credit Suisse Tremont Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund Index by tracking the performance of non-hedge fund, transparent market measures.  The firm says that the exchange-traded approach offers a variety of advantages to investors, including real-time pricing, intraday liquidity and portfolio transparency–advantages that, according to a press release, were previously not associated with alternative investments.    

However, the firm notes that the Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN does not invest directly in hedge funds and therefore does not have the risks usually associated with hedge funds such as illiquidity, fraud risk, or individual manager risk.

This ETN seeks to replicate the performance of the Long/Short Equity hedge fund sector as represented by the Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net), an index which is calculated intraday and “reflects the return of a dynamic basket of 18 liquid, investable market factors.”  Those factors are selected and weighted monthly in accordance with an algorithm that aims to track the performance of the Credit Suisse/Tremont Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund Index.


More information about the Credit Suisse Long/Short Liquid Index (Net) ETN can be found at www.credit-suisse.com/notes.

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Evermore Global Advisors Launches Two Mutual Funds

Evermore Global Advisors, LLC, has launched the Evermore Global Value Fund and Evermore European Value Fund.

Evermore Global Value Fund invests in securities from markets around the world, including U.S. markets, and Evermore European Value Fund invests in securities from European markets. The funds will generally invest in mid- and large capitalization companies with market capitalization values greater than $1.5 billion and will typically hold its equity investments (other than investments in merger arbitrage situations) for substantial periods of time (more than one year).

According to a company announcement, the funds generally do not focus on stock market and economic conditions or other macro factors, but instead seek to invest in companies believed to be both undervalued and undergoing strategic change–such as changes in management, restructurings, spin-offs and downsizings–and to take advantage of those opportunities through investments across the capital structure.

The funds are available in three classes of shares: A, C and I, all of which have an annual management fee of 0.99%. Other fees associated with each share class can be found in the Evermore Funds’ prospectus. The minimum initial investment for Class A and Class C shares is $5,000 (or $2,000 for IRA accounts), and the minimum investment for the Class I shares is $1,000,000.

The mutual funds are managed by David Marcus, who previously managed assets for Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC, as well as other investment management firms, and Jae Chung, who previously managed assets for Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC, and Davis Advisors.


More information is available by calling 866-383-7667 or at www.evermoreglobal.com.

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