Stories

• A survey commissioned by the Alternative Investment Management Association to examine funds of funds is close to completion.

  April 30, 2002

• Choice Capital Launches Second Hedge Fund

  April 30, 2002

• Hedge fund of fund firm Ventana Capital Partners has hired Capital Market Risk Advisors to assist in fund of funds design.

  April 30, 2002

• Liberty Ermitage has hired a hedge fund analyst and launched a Japanese hedge fund of funds.

  April 30, 2002

• Madison Funds Readies Its First Hedge Funds

  April 30, 2002

• Neuberger Berman Inc. hired Lipper & Co.'s high yield bond team, including the daughter of Lipper founder Ken Lipper.

  April 30, 2002

• GKM Founder Leaves Boutique For Hedge Fund

  April 29, 2002

• Pequot Preps Distressed Debt Hedge Fund

  April 29, 2002

• Pioneer Set To Close Hedge Fund Co. Purchase

  April 29, 2002

• Man Beefs Up U.S. Presence

  April 26, 2002

• Manitoba Fund Weighs First Alt Searches

  April 26, 2002

• Oklahoma Police Relaunches Fund of Funds Search

  April 26, 2002

• Ontario Teachers May Look For Hedge Fund, Private Equity Managers

  April 26, 2002

• Thales Snags Baker Analyst To Head New Team

  April 26, 2002

• A joint venture between BNP Paribas and Fauchier Partners has kicked off with the unveiling of two new hedge funds of funds aimed at the institutional market.

  April 25, 2002

• John Griffin, president of the New York-based hedge fund firm Blue Ridge Capital, recently donated $500,000 to his alma mater, the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

  April 25, 2002

• Boldwater Rolls Out Its First Fund

  April 24, 2002

• Opal's Absolute Return Strategies Summit Attracts Smaller Crowd

  April 24, 2002

• Barbara Doran and Donna Anderson-Schole are merging their third party marketing businesses to create Selalu Partners LLC.

  April 23, 2002

• Berens Creates CFO Slot

  April 23, 2002

• William Brown, the former Tremont Advisers investment chief who left in February, has founded his own firm.

  April 23, 2002

• Winston Partners Hires Thayer Exec, Considers Hiring Third-Party Marketer

  April 23, 2002

• Canada's CI Funds launched the CI Multi-Manager Opportunities Fund, representing the firm's first foray into the fund of funds business as a complement to its existing line-up of single-manager strategies.

  April 22, 2002

• EU Group Will Work On Hedge Fund, Derivative Regulation

  April 22, 2002

• London Fund Readies Private Equity Boost, Eyes Hedge Funds

  April 22, 2002

• Pioneer Alternative Investments this week announced the launch of its new long/short European equity fund, which was seeded with $18 million in proprietary capital.

  April 22, 2002

• Vienna Scheme Hunts For High Returns

  April 22, 2002

• Arapahoe Eyeing Hedge Funds

  April 18, 2002

• Asset Alliance Takes Stake In New York Hedge Fund, Plans New Fund

  April 18, 2002

• Colorado Pension Looks To Fill Private Equity Allocation, Studies Hedge Funds

  April 18, 2002

• Contra Costa Considering Managed Futures

  April 18, 2002

• Eleven stock traders sued the Nasdaq Stock Market earlier this month over Nasdaq's decision to cancel many of the trades in the stock of a semiconductor manufacturer, Axcelis.

  April 18, 2002

• Harris Associates' alternative investment group announced that it is closing the offshore component of its Aurora fund to new investors next month and will be launching a second version, Aurora Offshore Fund II, on July 1.

  April 18, 2002

• Lasers Considering Hedge Fund Of Funds

  April 18, 2002

• Lewis And Clark Seeking Alternatives Increase

  April 18, 2002

• Nature Group’s Board To Consider Alts Strategy Next Week

  April 18, 2002

• Oregon Foundation Switches Consultant, Reviews Portfolio

  April 18, 2002

• Penn Seeks Additional Hedge Funds

  April 18, 2002

• Smith Sets Inflation-Hedging Allocation

  April 18, 2002

• ...As Moore Hires For Similar Effort

  April 17, 2002

• Dennis McCrary has joined Adams Street Partners' fund of funds team in Chicago.

  April 17, 2002

• The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation has identified 18 private equity firms to potentially invest in, said Bob Cowman, cio of the $16 billion fund.

  April 17, 2002

• Tudor Looks To External Hedge Fund Managers...

  April 17, 2002

• America's biggest pension plan has picked a handful of hedge fund managers to run its highly anticipated $1 billion program.

  April 16, 2002

• Billion Dollar Manager Enters Hedge Fund Mart

  April 16, 2002

• HBV Kicks Off Multi-Manager Fund

  April 16, 2002

• Macquarie Financial Services’ new Macquarie Titan Trust fund of funds raised NZ$70 million (US$31 million) upon its close on March 22.

  April 16, 2002

• Man Investment Products will launch Man AP Strategic 2 Ltd. for investment May 6 after raising US$280 million in Man AP Strategic Series 1 Ltd.

  April 16, 2002

• SSB Rolls Out Wireless Platform For Hedge Fund Managers

  April 16, 2002

• The majority of hedge fund investors expect to increase their allocations to the industry over the next year, according to the Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory Group's fifth annual hedge fund investor survey.

  April 16, 2002

• Goldman Loses Fund Of Fund Exec

  April 12, 2002

• K2 Advisors Woos Away Hedge Fund Top Dogs

  April 12, 2002

• Scudder Exec To Roll Out Hedge Fund

  April 12, 2002

• Tiger-Backed Managers Kick Off Emerging Markets Fund

  April 12, 2002

• Lehman Exec Hops To Head UBS Cap Intro Effort

  April 11, 2002

• N.C. Fund Considers Absolute Return Strategies

  April 11, 2002

• Red Cross To Search For Hedge Funds

  April 11, 2002

• UNC To Continue Increasing Alts Exposure

  April 11, 2002

• Alfred Pennisi was appointed v.p. and head of New York operations at ABN AMRO Futures, which is part of ABN AMRO Clearing and Execution Services.

  April 10, 2002

• Canadian hedge fund Citibank GPR Hedge Fund Notes has been resurrected after a short hiatus and will be open to Canadian investors until April 23.

  April 10, 2002

• CAZ Investments formed a new division to help institutional and high-net-worth clients to invest in hedge funds.

  April 10, 2002

• CIBC World Markets has closed its Advisers Multi-Sector Trust retail fund in Canada but hopes to revive the venture when market conditions improve.

  April 10, 2002

• City Of Pittsburgh To Increase U.S. Private Equity

  April 10, 2002

• Colorado Pension On The Lookout For Private Equity Opportunities

  April 10, 2002

• CSFB’s Sloan Departs; Derivatives Exec To Take Top Slot

  April 10, 2002

• Decillion Partners, a joint venture between Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, Zurich and Decillion Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa, unveiled a new hedge fund of funds, the Mont Blanc Multi-Strategy fund.

  April 10, 2002

• DLR Advisors has launched an offshore version of their leveraged Pilatus PC12 Fund, a long-short beta neutral fund.

  April 10, 2002

• Embattled portfolio manager Conrad Seghers and his Integral Investment Management hedge funds have been kicked out of the National Futures Association, an industry watchdog group.

  April 10, 2002

• France Growth Fund To Shop For Hedge Fund Managers

  April 10, 2002

• Hedge fund strategies helped lessen the blow in 2001 for college and university endowments, which had their first negative returns in over two decades.

  April 10, 2002

• In an ongoing effort to get Italy’s first single-strategy hedge fund off the ground, Gruppo Kairòs has hired former mutual fund manager Alberto Conca to run the planned fund’s portfolio.

  April 10, 2002

• Pimco, the fund management group controlled by Allianz of Germany, is poised to enter the hedge fund market as part of its expansion outside the U.S.

  April 10, 2002

• The Chicago Board of Trade announced the appointment of two electronic market makers to enhance liquidity for its mini-sized Dow futures contracts: Bear Hunter Structured Products LLC, and Susquehanna International Group LLP.

  April 10, 2002

• The hedge fund world is buzzing over the decision of a little-known fund, IIU Capital, to force investors to pay a fee for pulling out of the fund after its star manager, David Morrison, left.

  April 10, 2002

• The law firm Dechert announced that it has hired Jon Rand, an experienced adviser to the fund management industry, as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

  April 10, 2002

• ABN AMRO Rolls Out Chat Room For Hedge Fund Managers

  April 09, 2002

• FinCEN Considers Pushing Back PATRIOT Act Deadline For Hedge Funds

  April 09, 2002

• SSB Derivatives Expert Moves To Prime Brokerage Sales

  April 09, 2002

• Winston Snags Duke Management Hedge Fund Honcho

  April 09, 2002

• Purdue To Ramp Up Real Estate Allocation

  April 08, 2002

• Torrey Taps Dresdner Exec For Institutional Sales

  April 08, 2002

• ATP Selects Goldman For Private Equity

  April 07, 2002

• Bama School Eyes Funds Of Funds

  April 07, 2002

• CSFB Prime Brokerage Opens West Coast Office, Names Head

  April 07, 2002

• Deutsche Bank's Absolute Return Strategies Group

  April 07, 2002

• Institutional Investors Are Grumbling But Still Willing To Pay Up

  April 07, 2002

• J.P. Morgan Unit Lands EIM Exec To Lead London Effort

  April 07, 2002

• Massachusetts Pension Searching For Private Equity Opportunities

  April 07, 2002

• Secondary Private Equity: A Burgeoning Asset Class

  April 07, 2002

• Wake Forest University

  April 07, 2002