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August 23, 2006
Thomas Bostwick has departed Cowen and launched a hedge fund, Bostwick Capital.
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August 22, 2006
Michele Paige, who was a senior analyst at King Street Capital Management and Icahn Associates Corp., is launching her own activist fund this fall.
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August 21, 2006
HSBC Republic Investments is planning to launch more funds of hedge funds.
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August 18, 2006
David Kurzman, managing partner, Kurzman Partners, in the firm's most recent letter to investors.
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August 18, 2006
New York-based Barington Capital Group's event-driven/activist Barington Companies Equity Partners returned -2.67% last month.
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August 18, 2006
A group of activist hedge funds are balking at a proposed sale of Sizeler Property Investors to Revenue Properties.
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August 18, 2006
Advent Capital Management, the New York manager with $3 billion in convertible, high-yield, equity and event-driven strategies, has hired a veteran portfolio manager from Barclays Capital.
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August 18, 2006
Chapman Capital, the activist hedge fund firm run by well-known manager Robert Chapman, has trimmed its exposure to Carreker Corporation, a Dallas payment solutions provider to financial service and online companies.
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August 18, 2006
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August 18, 2006
Eden Rock Capital Management, the London-based fund of funds firm with $1.2 billion under management, is seeking to make a sales hire to join its marketing team.
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August 18, 2006
Ferro Capital, the $1.5 billion fund of hedge funds firm, is preparing to launch a range of single-strategy funds of funds--a first for the firm.
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August 18, 2006
New York-based currency manager FX Concepts opened a London office at the beginning of the month, replacing its Paris location, which opened in 1993.
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August 18, 2006
London hedge fund goliath GLG Partners followed a tough showing in May with equally dismal performance in June.
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August 18, 2006
Hedge fund advisers that are considering deregistration from the Securities and Exchange Commission should determine whether they are required to register with the states where they have offices, lawyers said.
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August 18, 2006
Informed Portfolio Management, the $5 billion Stockholm-based firm, is considering launching onshore funds for Continental Europe.
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August 18, 2006
Continuing its misfortunes from June (AIN, 7/17), managed futures giant John W. Henry suffered last month, according to an investor document, with all nine funds still losing money despite showing a slight improvement.
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August 18, 2006
Greg Geiling, who spent nearly a decade at JPMorgan, most recently as chief technology strategist, has launched a long/short equity technology, media & telecommunications fund with his new firm, New York-based Christie Street Capital Management.
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August 18, 2006
LibertyView Capital Management's risk arbitrage fund returned 63 basis points in June despite its position in Spanish language television giant Univision Communications.
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August 18, 2006
London & Capital, the $2 billion-plus boutique, will consider offering a short index based on its algorithmic U.S. stock selection tool, MarketGrader.
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August 18, 2006
London-based Tiburon Partners has launched its second Asia ex-Japan hedge fund.
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August 18, 2006
Lyxor Asset Management, the $70 billion French fund of hedge funds, will make a major push for assets from Asian investors next year.
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August 18, 2006
Mellon Global Alternative Investments has decided to drop a longstanding distressed credit fund from two of its funds of hedge funds because the manager is introducing side pockets.
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August 18, 2006
New York-based Kurzman Partners' long/short Kurzman CleanTech fund returned -3.7% last quarter.
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August 18, 2006
New York-based Eddystone Capital, which manages a long/short equity hedge fund, has hired a Contrarian Capital Management veteran as director of marketing--a new position.
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August 18, 2006
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August 18, 2006
Fund of funds giant Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co. has hired Noelita Rajadurai, a recent London School of Economics graduate, to be an investment analyst in its London office.
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August 18, 2006
San Francisco-based venture capital firm Paul Capital Partners launched a middle market fund of private equity funds last month, according to an investor.
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August 18, 2006
Tom Hudson's Pirate Capital is facing the biggest drawdowns in the firm's history in its two main funds.
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August 18, 2006
Pirate Capital, the activist hedge fund firm run by Thomas Hudson, has increased its stake in mountain resort operator Intrawest Corporation.
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August 18, 2006
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August 18, 2006
Kirkland, Wash.-based Rotella Capital Management has rolled out two new strategies.
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August 18, 2006
The Securities and Exchange Commission has made clear that registered hedge fund advisers will still need to provide the records of their private funds to examiners.
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August 18, 2006
Trigram Capital Management, the Greenwich, Conn.-based firm started by a Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch veteran, is seeking a marketer for its Trigram Asia Global Impact Fund, according to an e-mail obtained by AIN.
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August 18, 2006
Xerion Capital Partners, a hedge fund firm connected to Donald Sussman, has pulled out of a play with D.E. Shaw & Co. to purchase Oneida Ltd.