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Listed hedge fund proposes own winding down
Despite signs that the battered $1.3 trillion (€916bn) ... In recent weeks, there have been signs of ... This followed hedge funds being up 4% at ... Nevertheless, Financial Risk Management's $70.2m Diversified Alpha fund ... Greg Taylor, FRM's head of product development, said:...
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Renaissance for funds of funds exposed by crisis
Some investors might feel Banque Privée Edmond de ... In recent years, funds of hedge funds became ... But last year the promised absolute returns became ... Others were caught out by fund blow-ups and ... In the aftermath of last year’s carnage, it ... Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild, which has €8.4bn...
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Swiss manager backs London with dual listing
A Swiss asset manager has shown confidence in ... LGT Capital Partners will dual list its $546m ... The move will not involve any fundraising, according ... Cartwright said he hoped the dual-listing would increase ... He added that Castle could have up to ... At 12:30 GMT today, the gap was 32.6%,...
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Gradient hedge fund begins climb back upwards
Gradient Capital, the London hedge fund whose founders ... John Gunn, Gradient's chief operating officer, said Gradient ... Gradient's rise this year outstrips the 4.1% from ... "We have 90 trading months and two of ... "We took a kick like a lot of ... "For a number of years the sea we...
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Hedge fund charity falls again
The extent to which the financial crisis has ... The charity took $17.3m from ticket sales - ... In addition to these ordinary donations, billionaire hedge ... Hedge fund managers generally have less cash to ... However, hedge funds have made money for their ... The Robin Hood Foundation, which focuses on fighting...
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Funds of funds are facing their biggest challenge
In March, Man Group, the world’s largest listed ... The firm, which reported a 43% drop in ... Two years ago, Man’s decision would have raised ... On average, funds of hedge funds returned -21% ... The $600bn industry has haemorrhaged its assets through ... Some industry analysts estimate that anywhere between 40%...
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Inflows add to optimistic signs for hedge funds
Leading hedge fund managers are beginning to see ... Overall, investors still pulled $104bn (€76.5bn) from the ... Jeff Meyer, chief executive of UK mainstream and ... Dermot Butler, chairman of hedge fund administrator Custom ... Hans Hufschmid, chief executive of GlobeOp, said his...
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Hedge funds slow to open gates
Around one in six hedge funds continued to ... At the end of the first quarter of ... While this is a high proportion, it is ... At least 100 European funds restricted withdrawals, according ... Although hedge funds made a 1% gain on ... In a separate study by Bank of New ... Alexandre Col, head of the investment fund department...
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Belgian royal family office launches credit funds
The US family office for Belgian royal family ... Jason Colodne and Jason Beckman, who joined Chimay ... Colodne serves as chief operating officer and Beckman ... Colbeck Credit Opportunities Fund will be long-short credit ... In the first round of fundraising, Colbeck has...
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Discounts narrow in private trading of hedge fund holdings
Investors bought stakes in unlisted hedge funds at ... Not a single buyer was prepared to pay ... The prices investors are now paying are at ... Elias Tueta, co-founder of Hedgebay, said the discounts ... He said investors locked into hedge funds by ... Investors who were willing to accept lock-ins could...
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Hedge fund gains fail to stop redemptions
Hedge funds continued to suffer redemptions in the ... Investors withdrew some $104bn, or 7.4% of industry ... The total redemption figure fell from $152bn in ... Meanwhile, performance rose, with HFR's composite index posting ... The slight gains after last year's record losses...
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Lansdowne reopens flagship fund
Lansdowne Partners, one of London’s largest hedge fund ... Paul Ruddock and Steven Heinz, who launched Lansdowne’s ... One existing investor who managed to put more ... He said he believed Lansdowne had also allowed ... Alexandre Col, head of the investment fund department...
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Global hedge fund assets said to rebound by 2013
Global hedge fund assets are expected to hit ... Global hedge fund assets, which stand at $1.4 ... Marina Lewin, managing director, alternative investment services for ... Lewin said: “Hedge funds are in the process ... Institutions remain committed to hedge fund investing and...
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BlueBay goes long as hedge funds struggle
Funds at BlueBay Asset Management rose to almost ... Assets under management at the London-listed group rose ... Six months ago BlueBay managed $20.5bn, including $5.4bn ... However, stock analysts at brokers Noble pointed to ... Fees from long-only funds now account for 62%...
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Leading hedge fund research analyst quits UBS
Alexander Ineichen, the global chief of research at ... The platform included hedge fund manager UBS O'Connor ... Viewed as one of the most renowned and...
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Buyers arise for AIG unit as some bids scrape floor
About half a dozen bidders have emerged for ... The auction is for the piece of AIG ... The sale shows the pressures on AIG, which ... Several buyers have submitted offers between $400m and ... Private equity firms Ashmore Investment Management, Hellman & ... Bidders' low prices have come from concerns about...
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Renaissance founder tops 2008 hedge fund earners
James Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies Corp, which ... According to industry publication Alpha, the average earnings ... Many of their less-well paid industry peers did ... But Alpha said that the top earner was ... His Renaissance trades various markets using mathematical models...
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Investment losses test friendship
Sooner or later everyone gets a call from ... Everyone agrees it’s strictly business (as they leaf ... Unfortunately, with the European economy grinding to a ... capital from friends and family to get up ... With funds going out of business at the ... Unfortunate investors may have to accept their money...
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Pay cuts hit hedge fund staff
Staff at hedge funds suffered a 16% cut ... The average total pay cheque in the industry ... The dramatic drop in compensation reflected the 19% ... One respondent to the survey, said: "The whole ... The survey, whose initial findings were published online ... Hedge fund chief investment officers earned, on average,...
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Tops manager Marshall Wace takes retail spin
Marshall Wace Asset Management, one of London’s oldest ... Marshall Wace’s flagship Eureka equity long/short fund fell ... Marshall Wace’s decision to run funds accessible to ... Paul Marshall, who with Ian Wace founded Marshall ... “You now have a fund framework which will...
