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Stellar year fails to halt hedge fund fee slide
Hedge funds have enjoyed their best year-to-date returns ... The hedge fund industry returned 12% to investors ... Hedge funds will only be able to start ... The $1.4 trillion (€975bn) industry suffered its worst ... Kevin Burrows, senior investment analyst at investor Nedgroup...
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Managed-futures funds struggle amid lack of clear trends
So-called trend-chasing hedge funds, which posted a stellar ... The managed-futures funds, which last year capitalised on...
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Hedge funds keep gates firmly locked despite record gains
The best first-half performance by hedge funds for ... About $130bn (€91bn), or about 10% of all ... One fund of funds manager unable to retrieve ... Sheldon Macdonald, senior investment analyst at investor Nedgroup ... He said equity hedge funds relaxed curbs earliest ... Managers back on normal business terms within 12...
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Geneva funds of funds suffer 72% decline in assets
Geneva banks investing client money in funds of ... Assets of Geneva-based funds of funds plummeted to ... Funds of funds operating from Geneva tumbled 22.4%...
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Redemptions temper Gottex gains
Gottex Fund Management’s flagship strategy suffered an 8% ... The value of assets held in Gottex’s fund ... This mirrored a fall in assets at group ... These gains were offset by $570m of redemptions, ... The Swiss-listed company said its enhanced index strategies ... Gottex’s performance in the second quarter also chimes...
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Investors continue to flee improving hedge funds
Investors are still pulling money out of hedge ... Assets managed by hedge funds grew by $100bn ... Positive returns helped to offset the outflows to ... None of the main fund investment strategies took ... Nearly three quarters of all hedge funds were ... Overall, withdrawals were more than outweighed by the...
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Hedge funds enjoy AUM growth as redemptions slow down
The hedge fund industry’s total client assets surged ... Net of redemptions, the sector presently has $1,430bn...
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Bluecrest hedge fund shareholders to vote on portfolio future
Bluecrest AllBlue has become the latest listed hedge ... Shareholders in Bluecrest AllBlue, the listed hedge fund ... The ballot of £275m (€320m) AllBlue, which the ... The average 12-month discounts to NAV for AllBlue's ... The ballot of the three-year old portfolio of...
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Public hedge fund managers differ on reporting fund performance
If you held public stock in a company ... But the positions of the three public US ... Since going public, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group has ... Fortress Investment Group has begun to report quarterly ... Then there's Blackstone Group, which got a similar ... According to filings, 49% of Blackstone's assets under...
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Exchange-traded funds race ahead of rival asset classes
The exchange-traded funds industry has outpaced other types ... Over the same period, the global mutual funds ... Private equity assets under management, including both invested ... Private equity real estate assets under management, again ... Today, continuing inflows into ETFs have cemented the...
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Funds of funds miss out on gains
Hedge funds continued to make money last month, ... Hedge funds made 9.4% in the first half ... Convertible bond arbitrage funds made 30%, HFR said, ... Short sellers are the only hedge funds to ... HFR's figures are fairly similar to those from ... Shares are flat so far this year....
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Hedge funds, rebounding, gain 10% in first half of year
Halfway through 2009, hedge funds are keeping it ... While that early estimate of hedge-fund returns is ... Now, many hedge funds have returned to their ... According to data from Hedge Fund Research going ... Among large managers, a fund run by Clint ... In a letter sent to investors and reviewed...
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Hedge funds still high priority for traditional managers
Nearly half all traditional asset managers list expanding ... About 45% of traditional asset managers surveyed by ... The research comes after the hedge fund industry ... Hedge funds had also made 9.4% this year ... Morten Spenner, chief executive at fund of hedge ... Aspiring hedge fund managers are already seeking to...
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Polar Capital assets melt away despite hedge fund gains
The hedge fund assets at London asset manager ... Hedge fund assets at the firm fell from ... Overall, Polar's total assets contracted from $3.1bn to ... This reduction, announced in financial results it published ... Polar's hedge funds lost $314m through redemptions and...
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Withdrawal limits remain despite hedge funds' rise
When markets slid late last year, many hedge ... Fund managers argued that last year's clampdown was ... Six months later, things look a lot different: ... The market rebound means many assets are easier ... Among funds that continue to tie up investor ... "There is a feeling that some managers are...
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Nimble hedge funds outpace large rivals
Small hedge funds have used their ability to ... Funds managing less than $100m (€71m) made 9.7% ... In a report on hedge fund performance published ... Bill Maldonado, head of alternatives at Halbis, the ... Maldonado said: "The promise of a lot of ... By beating the performance of their larger rivals,...
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Deutsche alumnus launches billion-dollar hedge fund
An alumnus from Deutsche Bank has raised the ... Arvind Raghunathan, former head the global arbitrage business ... Roc Capital is the biggest launch for several ... One London investor in hedge funds said: "This ... One fund of funds manager added: "The average ... Other very large fund launches recently have not...
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Possibly the best hedge fund industry in the world...
Hedge funds based in New Zealand shrugged off ... New Zealand hedge funds made 20.4% last year, ... This compares to the worst recorded fall, of ... One European investor in hedge funds said: "American ... New Zealand-based funds have added another 1.3% in ... The country's hedge fund industry manages about $1bn...
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Key hedge fund index posts biggest monthly gain in nine years
The hedge fund sector posted one of its ... The index is up more than 9% for...
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Brevan Howard partners reap £113.3m from fee income gain
Divisible profits available to the 39 partners of ... According to financial statements filed at Companies House, ... The sharp rise came as fee income the ... As a result of its rise in fee ... Howard, who was among the group's founders in ... Although Companies House does not break down the...
