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September 01, 2006
GLG Partners in a recent letter to investors, on July's flaccid returns.
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September 01, 2006
Anchor Point Capital plans to launch a credit-focused fund of hedge funds in the fourth quarter.
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September 01, 2006
Greenwich, Conn.-based buyout shop Catterton Partners and Oak Investment Partners plan to rapidly expand their recent restaurant acquisition, Cheddars Casual Café, making it a national restaurant chain within 10 years.
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September 01, 2006
Chapman Capital, the activist hedge fund firm run by well-known manager Robert Chapman, is investigating the ceo of Glenayre Technologies.
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September 01, 2006
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September 01, 2006
This week, we take a look at global macro hedge funds.
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September 01, 2006
After cutting his teeth as an analyst at Davidson Kempner Capital Management and then becoming portfolio manager at Korsant Partners, a New York-based family office, Joel Lusman has launched his own fund.
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September 01, 2006
The €800 million Flintshire County Council-led Clwyd Pension Fund has tendered for a global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) manager to handle approximately €40 million.
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September 01, 2006
Former Long-Term Capital Management partners Myron Scholes and Chi-fu Huang have increased their control over Oak Hill Platinum Partners, a hedge fund unit of billionaire Robert Bass' Oak Hill empire.
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September 01, 2006
London behemoth Gartmore Investments' AlphaGen Aldebaran fund was up 1% in July partly on the back of trades in the information technology sector.
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September 01, 2006
London hedge fund giant GLG Partners stumbled in July with two of its funds dropping by roughly 9%.
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September 01, 2006
The $2.5 billion Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has decided to invest 30% of its portfolio in alternatives, across hedge funds, timber, energy, private equity and venture capital, reports AIN sister publication Foundation & Endowment Money Management.
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September 01, 2006
Lehman Brothers has hired Antoine Godin, a trader at Solent Capital Partners in London, as a director in proprietary trading.
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September 01, 2006
Steve Sun, who recently ended a seven-year stint at Merrill Lynch, where he was a director of global equity markets in Hong Kong, to join Singapore-based Tantallon Capital, has launched a long/short small-cap Pan-Asian strategy for his new firm.
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September 01, 2006
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September 01, 2006
The Yale School of Management has tapped Leon Metzger to teach its hedge fund course.
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September 01, 2006
London-based Park Place Capital's flagship Park Place Europe fund was down 2.25% in July on losses in its long book.
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September 01, 2006
Pirate Capital, the activist firm run by Thomas Hudson, has landed a board seat at Seattle sportswear maker Cutter & Buck pending an election by shareholders.
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September 01, 2006
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September 01, 2006
New York hedge fund firm Stillwater Capital Partners has launched a new fund that specializes in mezzanine lending on real estate deals.
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September 01, 2006
Going Short: Tom Cruise. Can you say L. Ron cash starved? After getting dumped by Paramount Pictures, the psychiatry-hating movie star was supposedly looking to line up $100 million from hedge funds to back his development company.
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September 01, 2006
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September 01, 2006
Tontine Overseas Associates, the activist long/short hedge fund of Jeffrey Gendell's Tontine Capital Management, has plummeted by nearly 34% this year.
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September 01, 2006
Brian Lippey's Trigram Capital Management has filled out its team and launched its flagship Asia Global Impact Fund.
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September 01, 2006
Chris Gate, who departed Tudor Investment Corp. this spring, launched his newly-named firm's first fund Friday.
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September 01, 2006
Pirate Capital has lost two additional members of its marketing team as J. Kerry Baldwin and Miguel Triay departed the Norwalk, Conn.-based firm last week.
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September 01, 2006
Vega Asset Management's funds were modestly up in July.
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September 01, 2006
Jim Vos, the former Credit Suisse Asset Management managing director who started up his own hedge fund and private equity advisory, has hired another two of his former employees.