Lipper HedgeWorld Announces Joint Venture with ISI Publications

Date: Friday, January 5, 2007
Author: Albourne Village

New York, NY, January 3, 2007 Lipper HedgeWorld, the hedge fund industrys premier news, events, research and Lipper TASS data provider, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Toronto-based ISI Publications, to become their preferred global media agent.

Under the joint-venture agreement, Lipper HedgeWorld and ISI Publications will partner together to publish and distribute, print and online publications for the global alternative investment, wealth management and asset management communities. Both companies will contribute to the content of the publications, with ISI Publications handling all publishing and production aspects and Lipper HedgeWorld responsible for sales, marketing and distribution.

This joint venture brings together two leading information providers for the capital markets industry, said Johann Wong, CFA, Global Head of Lipper HedgeWorld. We believe the combined strengths of ISIs in-depth, high quality editorial, publishing experience and our extensive distribution capability will provide a very attractive product for our valued clients.

Sarah Barham, CEO and founder of ISI Publications, added, This deal means we have new distribution opportunities to offer our authors and sponsors, and importantly lays the groundwork to leverage our joint expertise to exponentially grow our lists, both hard copy and electronic.

ABOUT LIPPER HEDGEWORLD

Lipper HedgeWorld distributes news and research to the global hedge fund industry through the www.lipperhedgeworld.com website, and also distributes Lipper TASS data. Lipper, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reuters, provides independent insight on global collective investments, including mutual funds, retirement funds, hedge funds, fund fees and expenses to the asset management and media communities. Covering over 143,000 share classes and over 75,000 funds domiciled in 59 countries, Lipper is a leading fund research and analysis organization. It provides the free Lipper Leader ratings for mutual funds registered for sale in 20 countries. Additional information is available at www.lipperweb.com.

ABOUT ISI PUBLICATIONS

ISI has published specialist titles for the global capital markets community for 15 years, and has a strong and respected hedge fund list covering North America, Europe, Asia and the emerging markets. Operating from Hong Kong, Toronto and the UK, ISI works with an unparalleled author group to continually add to their stable of titles. ISIs core start-up series for hedge funds covers Asia, Europe, the US and Canada and is set to expand to cover the Middle East and India. For further information please go to www.isipublications.com.