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EU Directive would curtail access to European market for Canadian and other international fund manag | Apr 22/10 |
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The Alternative Investment Management Association – Canada Inc. (AIMA Canada) has expressed concern about the potential effects of the European Commission’s current draft Directive to regulate alternative fund managers operating i...Read more |
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Singapore to Review Hedge, PE Funds Rules as Regulators Increase Oversight | Apr 22/10 |
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Singapore will review rules for its
investment management industry, including hedge-fund and
private-equity managers, for the first time since it introduced
incentives to lure alternative asset managers in 2002.
The Monetary ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Heavy Weights keep hiring: JANA Partners, SAC Capital, Och-Ziff Capital and BlueMountain | Apr 22/10 |
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In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we look at recent additions
made by hedge fund industry heavy weights JANA Partners LLC, SAC Capital
Management, Och-Ziff Capital Management, and BlueMountain Capital
Management. Jan...Read more |
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Artemis Investment Management launches Pine Street Canada L.P. | Apr 22/10 |
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Artemis Investment Management Limited is pleased to announce the
launch of Pine Street Canada, L.P. (the
"Fund") as part of our ongoing mission to bring investors access to
world class alternative investment opport...Read more |
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Paulson Shelves Canadian Retail Hedge Fund | Apr 21/10 |
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Paulson & Co. has delayed the launch of a Canadian retail hedge
fund following charges that Goldman Sachs defrauded investors in a
collateralized debt obligation it set up for the $32 billion hedge fund.
Paulson announced...Read more |
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Australian Hedge Fund Bets On Gaming Industry | Apr 21/10 |
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Australian-based hedge fund firm Cheung Capital Management is gearing
up to launch its maiden vehicle, which will invest in listed gaming and
casino stocks around the world.
The new vehicle, the Global Gaming Opportunities F...Read more |
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Paulson & Co. Says Role in Goldman Deal Was Appropriate | Apr 21/10 |
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Paulson & Co., the hedge fund that
made $15 billion betting on the decline in subprime mortgages in
2007, said its role in helping to design a mortgage-linked deal
sold by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was “appropriate and condu...Read more |
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Lehman subpoenas hedge funds Greenlight, SAC | Apr 21/10 |
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
(LEHMQ.PK)
wants to investigate David Einhorn's Greenlight
Capital, Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors and other hedge
funds over whether they took improper actions that damaged
Lehman's busines...Read more |
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Sprott Private Credit Fund launches | Apr 21/10 |
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Sprott Asset Management LP has appointed Third Eye
Capital Management Inc. as exclusive sub-advisor to Sprott Private
Credit Fund, Sprott said Tuesday.The fund’s principal investment
objective is to achieve superior risk-adj...Read more |
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Northwater wind-up delayed by restrictions on redemptions by hedge funds | Apr 21/10 |
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The final net asset value per unit of Northwater
Market-Neutral Trust was $1.58 at March 31, Northwater Capital
Management Inc. said Tuesday.This net asset value reflects the
third termination distribution of $0.50 previousl...Read more |
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SkyBridge Capital to acquire Citi Alternative Investments, Adding $4.2 Billion | Apr 20/10 |
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Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) announced last week that Citi Alternative
Investments’ hedge fund, hedge fund seeding, and hedge fund advisory
businesses would be sold to New York-based alternative asset management
firm SkyBridge C...Read more |
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Multi-strategy fund of funds launches | Apr 20/10 |
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A fund of hedge funds with a performance fee based on a three-year
high watermark has been launched by the former director of hedge fund
marketing at Dexion Capital.
Rory Hills has co-founded Hilltop Fund M...Read more |
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Cairn Capital takes over Credaris credit fund | Apr 20/10 |
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Fund firm Cairn Capital has
taken over management of smaller rival Credaris's credit fund as
smaller hedge funds look for ways to beef up assets and attract
wary investors in the wake of the credit crisis.
Cairn, which runs or...Read more |
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Mekong, Run by Ex-Templeton Manager, Revives Vietnam Fund Plan | Apr 19/10 |
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Mekong Capital, founded by a former Templeton Asset Management Ltd.
portfolio manager, has revived efforts to raise money for its fourth Vietnam
fund after halving the amount it was targeting.
The Ho Chi Minh City-based ...Read more |
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New hedge fund bets on sports, literally | Apr 19/10 |
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Centaur Group's Galileo fund, which plans to apply for SEC approval, claims
to have a number-crunching system that can make sports wagers with far better
results than the casual bettor.
If you've ever deluded yourself that be...Read more |
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Hedge fund fees continue to fall | Apr 16/10 |
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Hedge fund fees slipped further away from the 2 and 20 industry
standard last year, with less than 40% continuing to charge 2%
management and 20% performance fees.
The average management fee charged by sing...Read more |
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Activist Hedge Funds are increasingly pushing former CEOs onto Boards | Apr 16/10 |
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2009 saw a noticeable increase in the number of experienced executives
appointed to company boards by activist shareholders. According to the
Wall Street Journal, approximately 24% of the 213 dissident nominees had
previousl...Read more |
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Fortress Fundraiser Cody Said to Be Leaving After Eight Years | Apr 16/10 |
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Fortress
Investment Group LLC
fundraiser David Cody is
leaving after helping create the firm’s
hybrid fund business, according to two people with direct
knowledge of the move.
Todd Ladda,
managing director of...Read more |
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Quadrangle, GKM Newport to Pay New York in Pension Inquiry | Apr 16/10 |
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Quadrangle Group LLC will pay
$7 million and GKM Newport Generation Capital Services LLC
$1.6 million among settlements disclosed today in a New York
attorney general’s investigation into public pension funds.
Po...Read more |
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K1 Hedge-Fund Probe Yields Two More Arrests, Raids | Apr 16/10 |
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The German probe into K1 Group, a
hedge fund at the center of an international investigation,
yielded two more arrests, prosecutors said.
The managing director of K1 Global Ltd. and K1 Invest Ltd.,
the group’s fund...Read more |
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Canadian hedgies upset over European protectionism | Apr 15/10 |
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Canada’s hedge fund community is angry
over a controversial draft European Union (EU) directive that would
block outsiders from marketing within its borders...READ ENTIRE STORY AT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/...Read more |
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UK fund firm Polar says client inflows hold up | Apr 15/10 |
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British fund firm Polar Capital
(POLR.L)
on Thursday reported sustained net inflows of client
money in its final quarter to end-March as demand for long-only
funds held up in the face of fears of a market correction.
The gr...Read more |
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Lampert’s Hedge Fund Buys Junk-Rated Paper From Lampert’s Sears | Apr 15/10 |
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Sears
Holdings Corp. is bypassing
barriers to junk-rated companies in the $1.1 trillion
commercial-paper market by selling the debt to its largest
stockholders, including Chairman Edward Lampert.
Lampert and h...Read more |
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Viking Global's CIO, David Ott, stepping down | Apr 15/10 |
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Viking Global Investors, the
$12 billion hedge fund run by Andreas Halvorsen, said its chief
investment officer was stepping down and some of his positions
were liquidated. David Ott, who
co-founded Viking with Halvorsen in 1...Read more |
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EU's Barnier tries to end France-UK hedge fund row | Apr 14/10 |
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EU financial services chief
Michel Barnier has intervened in a stand-off between Britain and
France over regulating hedge funds by asking Paris to soften its
stance, a source close to Barnier said on Tuesday. Tensions rose betw...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Body worried by sweetened Client Deals | Apr 14/10 |
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A heavyweight hedge fund
industry group has voiced concerns about preferential deals
offered to some investors and may ask member firms to bolster
disclosure to other clients of the risks the practice poses.
Antonio Borges, ...Read more |
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Neuberger Berman Boosts Japanese Assets, Expects Further Growth | Apr 14/10 |
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Neuberger
Berman Group LLC, the New
York-based investment firm that bought itself out of Lehman
Brothers Holdings Inc., boosted its assets from Japanese clients
by 15 percent this year on demand from pension funds.
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Hechmer Leads Money Managers in Startups After Industry Shakeup | Apr 14/10 |
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Paul Hechmer
had just interviewed
for a job with a large asset manager when he got unsolicited
advice from an investment consultant: Start your own firm.
Hechmer, who had quit Nuveen Investments Inc. on June 15,
...Read more |
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Dubai Loses Court Challenge to Oaktree Over Almatis | Apr 14/10 |
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A Dutch court ruled against Dubai
International
Capital LLC’s petition to prevent Oaktree Capital
Management LLC from seizing its Almatis unit in a debt
restructuring.
Dubai International, the fund owned by Duba...Read more |
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Salida Capital Launches Private Equity Fund; $100 million seed investment committed | Apr 14/10 |
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Salida Capital Launches Private Equity Fund; $100 million seed investment
committed
TORONTO, Apr. 14 /CNW/ - Salida Capital, one of Canada's leading private
alternative investment
management firms, is pleased to announce the...Read more |
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Hedge-Funds Clients Add $16.6 Billion in February, Report Says | Apr 13/10 |
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Investors added $16.6 billion to
hedge funds in February, according to TrimTabs Investment
Research and BarclayHedge.
The inflow helped increase industry assets to $1.5 trillion
globally, the highest level in 16 mo...Read more |
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Ex-GLG, Lionhart Managers Plan Commodities Equity Hedge Fund | Apr 13/10 |
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Jason Wang, a
former manager at GLG
Partners Inc., and Simon Quirke,
who helped manage Lionhart
Advisors Group Ltd.’s Asian investments, are starting an equity
hedge fund that will focus on commodities-related industries. ...Read more |
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GAM assets rise in Q1 on low-margin inflows | Apr 13/10 |
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Swiss asset manager GAM Holding
(GAMH.VX)
said assets rose 5 percent in the first quarter as
performance gains and money flows into mainly low-margin
products outweighed client withdrawals from funds of hedge
funds. GAM Hold...Read more |
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Demand for hedge funds heated up again in February | Apr 13/10 |
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Global hedge funds took in
$16.6 billion in new money in February as pension funds and
wealthy investors raced to capture a piece of the industry's
recent strong returns, data released on Monday show. The flood of new money hel...Read more |
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CQS’s Oldest Global Hedge Fund Doubles Asian Bets in Two Years | Apr 13/10 |
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CQS U.K. LLP, a London-based
manager of $6.7 billion in assets, has doubled the Asian
allocation of its oldest global hedge fund since 2008 as it bets
on a recovery in the region’s convertible bond market.
Asia now...Read more |
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Goldman Courts Endowment Chiefs in Bid for School Fund Business | Apr 12/10 |
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Goldman
Sachs Group Inc., the most
profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, is courting
endowment heads to join its asset-management group, according to
three people with knowledge of the search.
The c...Read more |
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BarclayHedge Launches New SEC-Compliant Online Video Service | Apr 12/10 |
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BarclayHedge, Ltd., one of the oldest and most respected global
providers of alternative investment data and services, today announced
the launch of BarclayHedge TV – a web-based capability that, for the
first time in the al...Read more |
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BlueGold Beats Average Hedge Fund With 12.5% Return | Apr 12/10 |
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BlueGold Capital Management LLP,
the energy hedge fund manager overseeing $1.7 billion in assets,
returned 12.5 percent to investors in March, more than four
times the gain of the average hedge fund.
The fund rose ...Read more |
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Offshore hedge fund is trouble for Seattle's pension fund | Apr 12/10 |
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The pension fund for Seattle city workers is pursuing $20 million of
its investment money through a maze of hedge funds on two continents and
two Caribbean territories, hoping for nothing worse than the federal
investigation...Read more |
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Sprott Asset Management appoints new COO | Apr 12/10 |
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Invesco Trimark’s
Ciampaglia picked
to improve operational platform
Monday, April 12,
2010
By IE Staff
Sprott Asset
Management LP has
appointed John Ciampaglia to the position of chief operating officer,
pare...Read more |
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Petters Group Founder Gets 50-Year Term for $3.5 Billion Fraud | Apr 09/10 |
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Petters Group Worldwide LLC founder
Thomas Petters, convicted of orchestrating a $3.5 billion fraud scheme, was
sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Petters, 52, was found guilty in December of 20 counts in what prosecutors
s...Read more |
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Should Hedge Funds Be Able to Take Over Failed Banks? | Apr 09/10 |
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Hedge funds and other private investor groups are
rarely allowed to buy troubled banks, mainly out of fear that they would try to
turn the bank around and sell it for a quick profit.
But, as the financial crisis
causes more...Read more |
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Bluecrest hedge fund moves to low-cost Guernsey | Apr 09/10 |
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One of London’s biggest hedge funds has quit the UK for tax purposes as the
Government continues to fight for the confidence of corporate Britain.
BlueCrest Capital Management, which manages about $18 billion (£11.8 billion)
...Read more |
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US judge seizes $105 million in Argentine funds | Apr 08/10 |
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Argentina quickly said it would file a court appeal after a U.S.
federal judge ruled Wednesday that bondholders can seize $105 million in
Argentine central bank deposits held in the United States.A bank
spokesman told The As...Read more |
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High-Speed Traders Face Order Reporting Requirement From SEC | Apr 08/10 |
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The Securities and Exchange
Commission may give some firms that engage in high-frequency
stock trading identification codes to better track transactions
accounting for more than 60 percent of U.S. volume.
SEC commi...Read more |
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Morgan Stanley Starts Hedge Fund Services Office in Sao Paulo | Apr 08/10 |
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Morgan Stanley, the sixth-largest
U.S. bank by assets, started a hedge fund office in Sao Paulo
that will serve clients in South America, according to an
internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
Juan Coppola
wil...Read more |
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US treasury chief warns EU on hedge fund rules | Apr 08/10 |
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U.S. Treasury Chief Tim Geithner has warned Britain, France, Germany
and Spain about possible new European Union rules that he fears could
prevent American hedge funds from selling to European customers.In
a letter to the fo...Read more |
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Closing the Pension Funding Gap - A Tweak to Hedge Fund Incentive Compensation Achieves True Alignme | Apr 08/10 |
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Pension systems worldwide are in crisis. U.S. public and private
pensions alone are facing a shortfall of more than $1 trillion. To
catch up, pensions are increasingly turning to hedge funds. For the
decade ending in 2009...Read more |
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ANALYSIS: Mortality rate of Asian hedge funds | Apr 08/10 |
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GFIA pte ltd, the Singapore based specialist in
skill-based managers in Asian and emerging markets, has released a
research paper on Asian hedge fund closures from 2008 to 2009.
Fund closures are an integral part of any...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Assets to Hit $2 Trillion by Year-End, Survey Says | Apr 07/10 |
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Global hedge fund assets may return
to the pre-financial crisis peak of almost $2 trillion by year-
end, boosted by investment profits and capital inflows,
according to a Credit
Suisse Group AG survey of investors.
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