Polygon Concedes to British Energy, Winds Down Flagship Hedge Fund
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Alternative investor, Polygon Investment Partners LLP has agreed not to further oppose the restructuring of the company by British Energy and other shareholders, in...
View ArticleSalus Alpha offers a fund based on hedge fund index to investors
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Because of investors’ demand Salus Alpha decided to make the Salus Alpha Directional Market accessible as a fund. This way Salus Alpha continues to launch tracker funds...
View ArticleOTC Hires European Hedge Fund Manager
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – OTC Valuations Limited, provider of independent derivatives valuation and risk reports for illiquid and hard-to-value securities, structured products, and exotic...
View ArticleHedge Fund Brotman Capital Shows Top Performance
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Brotman Capital Partners LP, based in Boca Raton, Florida, has turned in the best performance Year to Date of a Market/Trend Timing Hedge Fund according to Barclays...
View ArticleLondon Hedge Fund Manager Alan Miller Makes a Comeback
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – According to a report in the Financial Times, London hedge fund manager Alan Miller has returned to the industry after a two-year absence by becoming a partner at...
View ArticleGrowth in Alternative Investments Among Institutions and Financial Advisors...
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morningstar and Barron’s today released highlights of a recent national survey examining the perception and usage of alternative investments among institutions and...
View ArticleNew European Hedge Fund Association Launch Underway
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Preparations are underway for the creation of a new European hedge fund association, hedgemeetings.com, which has the objective to communicate the public utility of this...
View ArticleResearch and Markets Offer Asia-Pacific Capital Markets Handbook
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Research and Markets announced the addition of a new report, "Asia-Pacific Capital Markets Handbook 2009". With increased investment and stability in the region, the...
View ArticlePalm Beach Hedge Fund Burned by Ponzi-Schemer Petters
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – South Florida-based hedge fund Palm Beach Finance Partners LP says it lost more than $1 billion to the company run by famed fraudster Tom Petters. Petters headed...
View ArticleStrong Performance For Pure Capital In October
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Pure Capital Limited, a quantitatively-driven hedge fund specializing in “targeted non-correlation” saw strong performance from their “Pure Bespoke” customized portfolio...
View ArticlePharos Hedge Fund Launches Office In Dubai
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Pharos Financial Advisors Limited, a specialist emerging markets fund manager, announced that it has been granted a license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority...
View ArticleGlobeOp Strengthens European Domiciled Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – GlobeOp announced the strengthening its European-domiciled hedge fund administration services following the licensing of its Dublin office by the Irish Financial...
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New Zealand’s Absolute Return Managers Index Surge in October
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Ernst and Young New Zealand Absolute Return index surged to its second highest level since inception in October, gaining 2.83% for the month, putting year to date...
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Short Selling Outperforms FOHFs as Investors Withdraw Over $40 Billion from...
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – According to data released by Hedge Fund Research (HFR), the global financial and economic crises accelerated in October, contributing to continued losses in the hedge...
View ArticleFoHF Lighthouse Expands Through Integration with GlobeOp
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Fund of hedge funds Lighthouse Partners announced that it is expanding its partnership with GlobeOp Financial Services to a full-service fund administration...
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UPDATE – JSD Research Reveals Hedge Fund Employees Knew About Market Shift...
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – A survey conducted by Job Search Digest, publishers of Hedge Fund Jobs Digest, revealed a shift in the hedge fund industry. Given the current state of the market, the...
View ArticleGreen Hedge Fund Directory Launched By EHFC
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Energy Hedge Fund Center (EHFC) announced that it has added a ‘green’ hedge fund directory to its product inventory. EHFC’s Directory of Energy Hedge Funds was...
View ArticleRedemptions Halted by one of the Worlds Largest Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – One of the world’s largest hedge funds has temporarily halted redemptions according to reports. Tudor Investment Corp’s flagship portfolio, has been reported to have...
View ArticleRival Hedge Fund Avoids Steep Loses through Downside Protection Strategies
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) Canadian hedge fund manager, Rival Capital Management launched the Rival North American Growth Fund and since 2007 it has gained more than 80 accredited investors and $15...
View ArticleCanada’s Hedge Funds Care Group Raise $150K for Kids
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Canada’s hedge fund industry gathered in November to raise $150,000 in support of Hedge Funds Care Canada (HFCC), which is dedicated exclusively to the treatment and...
View ArticleExperts Discuss Hedge Fund Growth at ‘Fighting the Tape’ Seminar
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Top financial industry leaders and more than 200 attendees gathered in New York late last week discuss the volatile hedge fund market and provide insights on distressed...
View ArticleOxford Funding adds $40 Million in New Properties to its Hedge Fund
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Oxford Funding Corp. has signed a letter of intent to acquire $40 million in new properties into its hedge fund, The Oxford Opportunistic Mortgage Fund, Ltd. The assets...
View ArticleHedge Fund Launched in ’07 Completes Successful 1st Year
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The DM Swiss Equity Asymmetric Fund has successfully completed its first year of operation realising a net gain for its investors +2.67%. "We are extremely pleased to...
View ArticleAlternative Investors Form Joint Venture to Expand Africa’s...
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Satellite communications company Intelsat is launching a joint venture with a South African alternative investor group led by Convergence Partners. The joint venture...
View ArticleNeuberger Berman to buy Lehman Holdings
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Due to their recent share decrease, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has agreed to sell majority interest to asset manager Neuberger Berman. The transaction will create a...
View ArticleRonaldo Hermoso Appointed Director of Hedge Funds at OakRun
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager OakRun Capital announced the appointment of Rolando Hermoso as director of funds. Their newly launched Short Term High Yield Fund also delivered...
View ArticleUAE Asset Manager Launches Hedge Funds
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – US-based Stream Asset Management announced the launch of a credit dislocation fund and a multi-strategy credit hedge fund, the company said in a press statement. The...
View ArticleSalus Alpha Hedge Funds Not Exposed To Madoff Strategy
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Vienna based hedge fund manager Salus Alpha Group Services GmbH said that any exposure to Madoff funds were systematically prevented by the proprietary investment...
View ArticleHong Kong Hedge Fund Triples Investor Relation Technology
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager PMA has chosen to more than triple the number of users of PerTrac CMS in the company’s Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London, and Dubai...
View ArticleAIMB Launched by Hedge Fund Restructuring Advisors
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Alternative money managers and hedge fund restructuring advisers, Grisons Peak and IGS, have formed a joint venture to launch the Alternative Investment Merchant Banking...
View ArticleFactSet Anounces 2008 Global Revenues
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – FactSet Research Systems Inc. announced the first quarter results ending November 30, 2008, showed revenue increase to $155.6 million, an increase of 16% compared to the...
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Conference in Brussels on Carbon Capture & Storage
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Platts 3rd Annual European Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) conference is assembling the CCS community to discuss and review CCS projects in their various stages and...
View ArticleHedgeCo Hosts Blogging Platform, Provides Outlet for Hedge Fund Industry Experts
West Palm Beach, Dec 15, 2008 – Adding to its array of new and interactive features, HedgeCo.Net has unveiled the Hedge Fund blog platform, which provides both accredited investors and the general...
View ArticleCSX Corp. Sue the Childrens Investment Fund
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Transport company, CSX Corporation announced that it has joined in a civil action brought by the plaintiff, shareholder Deborah Donoghue, in federal court in New York...
View ArticleMorningstar Hedge Fund Analysis For November
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morningstar presented their monthly analysis of hedge fund performance for November and asset flows through October. "Hedge funds have a long path to recovery ahead of...
View ArticleLawfirm Examines Hedge Fund Misrepresentation for Investors Benefit
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Bernstein Liebhard is investigating whether, among other things, these investment funds conducted proper due diligence before investing heavily in Madoff Securities, and...
View ArticleSamuel Israel Competent to Plead Guilty
HedgeFund.Net – Samuel Israel III, the Bayou Group founder who led the FBI on a merry chase after failing to show up to serve his prison term, has recovered sufficiently to plead guilty to escape, a...
View ArticleLawyer Dreier pleads guilty to defrauding hedge funds of more $400 million
Minneapolis Star Tribune – A Prominent Manhattan lawyer has pleaded guilty to defrauding hedge funds of more than $400 million. Fifty-eight-year-old Marc Dreier on Monday pleaded guilty to conspiracy...
View ArticleMadoff asks for 12 years for Ponzi conviction
Denver Post – Bernard Madoff asked a federal judge this week to sentence him to as little as 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to operating a massive, decades- long Ponzi...
View ArticleSwindler pays for faking death
The London Free Press – A hedge-fund swindler who faked his own death in an effort to skip out on a 20-year prison term was sentenced yesterday to two extra years. Federal Judge Kenneth Karas said...
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