The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is poised to receive approximately $301 million in damages from Standard & Poor's (S&P) and parent company McGraw-Hill Financial, the result of settlements in cases against S&P that stemmed from its rating of mortgage-backed and other securities prior to the financial crisis.

Lyxor announces the launch of the first currency hedged ETF share class tracking the JPX-Nikkei 400 index, the LYXOR UCITS ETF JPX-Nikkei 400 Daily Hedged C-EUR, listed today on Euronext Paris.

Source is pleased to announce the launch of the Source Goldman Sachs Equity Factor Index Europe UCITS ETF. This is the second Source ETF to be launched that provides access to Goldman Sachs' innovative series of multi-factor indices, following the success of the Source Goldman Sachs Equity Factor Index World UCITS ETF...

Preqin launches its 2015 Global Alternatives Reports, which reveal significant growth in assets held by private equity, hedge fund, private debt, real estate and infrastructure fund managers. Total industry assets now stand at $6.91tn, up from $6.22tn as of this point last year.

The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark gained just 3.78% in 2014, the lowest annual return since the 1.85% loss seen in 2011