Stories

• N.J. Start-Up To Launch Fund, Seeks Prime Broker

  May 31, 2002

• Arthur Andersen Confirms Sale Of Hedge Fund Services Unit To E&Y

  May 30, 2002

• Carnegie Mellon Plots Private Equity, Hedge Fund Searches

  May 30, 2002

• Europe's $64 billion hedge fund industry has capacity to handle at least $71.5 billion of new money, according to a study by EuroHedge.

  May 30, 2002

• Philip Manduca, a former head of asset management at Dexia BIL, will join Morley Fund Management in June as the head of its alternative investment division.

  May 30, 2002

• Southridge Capital Debuts New Micro-Cap Funds

  May 30, 2002

• Warhol Foundation Could Add Hedge Fund-Of-Funds Manager

  May 30, 2002

• Fund of funds control a fifth of the hedge fund market and have been growing at just under 40% annually since 1997, according to a study due to be released this week by consultants Casey, Quirk & Acito and Hennessee Group.

  May 28, 2002

• Gleacher Taps Citi Exec For New Fund Of Funds Unit

  May 28, 2002

• Goldman Analyst Hops To Hedge Fund

  May 28, 2002

• Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt told the Investment Company Institute last week that the SEC would launch a fact finding investigation to prevent fraud in the hedge fund industry.

  May 28, 2002

• Tudor Taps Morgan Stanley's Head European Energy Trader

  May 28, 2002

• British Columbia Univ. Considering Managers

  May 24, 2002

• Ernst & Young Said To Buy Arthur Andersen's Hedge Fund Services Unit

  May 24, 2002

• Former Mesirow Execs Launch Small-Cap Event Driven Fund

  May 24, 2002

• Hedgeworld To Provide Manager Background Checks

  May 24, 2002

• Optima And Scott's Cove Dissolve Relationship, Close Funds

  May 24, 2002

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• Schindler Rolls Out Managed Futures Fund

  May 24, 2002

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• West Virginia University Seeking Alternatives

  May 24, 2002

• Citadel Hires "The Genius" From Enron

  May 23, 2002

• Ex-Nikko, Asea Brown Execs To Launch Macro Fund, Select Prime Broker

  May 23, 2002

• First Water Opens Doors, Launches Fund

  May 23, 2002

• SSgA To Launch Alternative Investment Funds

  May 23, 2002

• Washington Fund of Funds Seeks Marketer, Weighs Succession Plan

  May 23, 2002

• Hiring in alternative investment firms is on the increase, according to a survey of funds of funds managers conducted by executive recruiting firm TMP Worldwide.

  May 21, 2002

• Japan's Mitsui & Co. is to launch an energy derivatives trading unit in London that will cater to hedge funds, as well as other institutional investors including corporate trading desks.

  May 21, 2002

• Clipper Capital Debuts Its First Fund, Plans Offshore Launch

  May 20, 2002

• German Firms Gear Up To Meet Private Equity Demand

  May 20, 2002

• Nissan Explores Global Hedge Funds

  May 20, 2002

• Royal Alliance To Ink Deal With Oppenheimer

  May 20, 2002

• Swiss Alternative Manager Preps Currency Hedge Fund

  May 20, 2002

• Swiss Group To Launch Fund Of Hedge Fund Product

  May 20, 2002

• U.S. Manager Markets First Hedge Fund In Europe

  May 20, 2002

• Bayou Advisers Land At Independent Broker

  May 17, 2002

• BofA Capital Management Taps New Alts Head

  May 17, 2002

• Northbridge Capital Kicks Off Statistical Arb. Fund

  May 17, 2002

• UBS PaineWebber To Launch Distressed Debt Fund Of Funds

  May 17, 2002

• ABN AMRO Creates Top Southwest Slot

  May 16, 2002

• Colorado Trust To Review Hedge Funds

  May 16, 2002

• El Pomar Fund Considering Private Equity Fund-Of-Funds

  May 16, 2002

• Mercantile Capital Advisors, a division of regional multibank holding company Mercantile Bankshares, has registered its first hedge fund product with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  May 16, 2002

• Montreal money manager Montrusco Bolton has paired up again with Bermuda-based investment firm Focus Group to launch principal-protected notes linked to the returns of their co-managed fund of funds for Canadian investors.

  May 16, 2002

• Utah Fund Considering Private Equity, Real Estate

  May 16, 2002

• Asset Alliance To Debut U.S. Fund Of Funds

  May 15, 2002

• Lehman Brothers Bolsters U.K. Prime Brokerage

  May 15, 2002

• Pacific Lutheran Eyes Market Neutral, Distressed Funds Of Funds

  May 15, 2002

• The Commonfund announced Tuesday that it was consolidating operations in its investment division to cut costs.

  May 15, 2002

• The Financial Services Authority, the regulatory agency for the financial industry in the U.K., announced on May 14 that it will issue a discussion paper regarding the regulation of hedge funds.

  May 15, 2002

• Florida Pension Eyes Fund Of Funds, Alts Consultant

  May 14, 2002

• Goldman Sachs International has taken a minority stake in Beauchamp Financial Technology, a UK-based company that provides portfolio management and middle-office software to hedge funds and asset managers.

  May 14, 2002

• RBC To Launch Its First PE Fund Of Funds This Summer

  May 14, 2002

• Van Eck has opened its offshore hard assets hedge fund, Hard Assets Portfolio Ltd., to outside investors.

  May 14, 2002

• Baker Street Adds Senior Analyst, Plans Offshore Fund

  May 13, 2002

• HedgeWorld To Launch Fund Supermarket For U.S. Investors

  May 13, 2002

• Houston Exploring Alternatives

  May 13, 2002

• New hedge fund launches have dropped off by 36% in the first quarter of 2002 from the fourth quarter of last year, according to new data from an industry research group.

  May 13, 2002

• San Joaquin Contemplates REITS, Hedge Funds, Private Equity

  May 13, 2002

• Standard & Poor's plans to create a hedge fund index later this year and has already licensed the rights to start a fund based on the index.

  May 13, 2002

• ABN AMRO Combines Platforms

  May 10, 2002

• Denver VC Firm Launches Energy Fund

  May 10, 2002

• St. Lawrence To Consider Hedge Funds, Private Equity

  May 10, 2002

• Aquarian Plans Funds, Seeks Prime Broker

  May 09, 2002

• EGM Adds Goldman Marketer For Fund Of Funds Launch

  May 09, 2002

• Endowment Seeking Hedge Fund-Of-Funds Managers

  May 09, 2002

• Lehman Snags Bear Stearns Exec To Head Cap Intro Team

  May 09, 2002

• London-based Aspect Capital has tapped Alexandre Guillaume, a former fund manager at CDC Ixis Capital Markets, as European equity product manager for the firm's European equity hedge fund team.

  May 09, 2002

• Ohio University Considering Hedge Funds

  May 09, 2002

• Pioneer Global Asset Management announced its plans to buy London-based Momentum Group for $110 million.

  May 09, 2002

• The Boston-based law firm of Goodwin Proctor has expanded its hedge fund practice with the recent addition of attorney Kevin Sheridan in New York.

  May 09, 2002

• Former Star Pequot Manager, Omega Coo Prep Healthcare Fund

  May 08, 2002

• K2 Advisors Taps Ex-Tiger Analyst

  May 08, 2002

• Management To Buy Out KBW Founder's Hedge Fund Shop

  May 08, 2002

• Quellos To Open London Office

  May 08, 2002

• Walrus Hires Ex-Deutsche Bank Manager, Plans Offshore Fund

  May 08, 2002

• Ferro Capital To Launch Funds of Funds This Year

  May 07, 2002

• ING Asset Management is uniting its U.S. asset management businesses into a new group ING Investment Management US, which includes ING Alternative Assets, the unit that manages hedge funds.

  May 07, 2002

• Thomas Wyman has joined Husic Capital Management as a portfolio manager on a team handling research for hedge fund and long-only portfolios.

  May 07, 2002

• ...And Preps Private Equity Fund Of Funds Launch

  May 06, 2002

• ABB Rolls Out Hedge Fund Of Funds...

  May 06, 2002

• Australian Pension Eyes First Foray Into Hedge Funds

  May 06, 2002

• Austrian Hedge Fund Manager Seeks U.S. Head Marketer

  May 06, 2002

• Debt Derivatives Honcho Plans Hedge Fund

  May 06, 2002

• Gartmore Eyes Hedge Fund Of Funds Launch

  May 06, 2002

• Japanese Telecom Scheme Hunts For Overlay Managers, Int'l Private Equity Funds

  May 06, 2002

• Man Investment Products will launch it latest offshore guaranteed hedge fund offering on May 6.

  May 06, 2002

• New York Fund of Funds Shop Eyes Marketer

  May 06, 2002

• Swiss Specialist Launches Buyout Fund Of Funds

  May 06, 2002

• Westpac Banking Corp. is to pay A$323 million (US$174.5 million) in cash for Rothschild Australia Asset Management.

  May 06, 2002

• Man Beefs Up U.S. Presence

  May 05, 2002

• Max Re

  May 05, 2002

• Nature Group To Finalize Strategy

  May 05, 2002

• Treasury To Propose Anti-Laundering Rules By June

  May 05, 2002

• Kellner DiLeo Launches Special Situations Fund

  May 03, 2002

• Minnesota Pension To Consider Maiden Hedge Fund Search

  May 03, 2002

• Credit Suisse First Boston announced that it hired Rod Barker as a managing director, charged with heading up its European prime brokerage sales and coordinating the distribution of all CSFB equity products to hedge funds in Europe.

  May 01, 2002

• The State of Texas now has its own hedge fund group to aid hedge fund investors and managers alike.

  May 01, 2002