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September 20, 2006
With news reports wide-spread about multi-billion dollar Amaranth Advisors getting walloped in the natural gas market, fund of funds firms are reassuring investors they had no exposure.
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September 20, 2006
Rick Abeyta, one of the founding partners of Stadia Capital, has departed the firm.
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September 19, 2006
Cedar Partners is preparing to launch its first single-manager hedge fund for outside investors.
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September 15, 2006
Phil Goldstein, founder, Bulldog Investors, on his opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Rule 13F that requires large funds to disclose their equity holdings each quarter. Goldstein may challenge the rule in court.
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September 15, 2006
Allocating to emerging managers may be in fashion, but funds of funds are not shy about yanking investments.
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September 15, 2006
Jerry Schendel, who spent the last year as a portfolio manager at Andor Capital Management and eight years at Pequot Capital Management, is readying his own hedge fund firm.
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September 15, 2006
New York's Balance Asset Management is receiving an allocation of capital from Pfäffikon, Switzerland-based fund of funds firm RMF Investment Management, as first reported on iialternatives.com Monday.
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September 15, 2006
Atlas Global Investments, a multi-strategy hedge fund managed by Chicago firm Balyasny Asset Management, will soft-close when it reaches the $750 million mark, according to an investor document.
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September 15, 2006
Atlas Global Investments, a multi-strategy hedge fund managed by Chicago firm Balyasny Asset Management, will soft-close when it reaches the $750 million mark, according to an investor document.
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September 15, 2006
Hollencrest Capital Management, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based firm, is targeting family offices in its first-ever marketing push, according to Michael Schulman, senior portfolio manager.
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September 15, 2006
SJF Ventures, a Durham, N.C.-based venture capital firm, has hired Alan Kelley as managing director for its New York office, which opened last week.
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September 15, 2006
Bruce Kovner's Caxton Associates has shut down its Caxton Healthcare Trading fund. Ken Rader, the strategy's portfolio manager, was reassigned to the firm's U.S. equity group and its six analysts were let go, according to an investor.
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September 15, 2006
Ennis Knupp + Associates has hired Brett Nelson as principal to expand the range of private equity services the firm offers and to increase its coverage of international private equity managers; the firm has traditionally focused on U.S. firms.
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September 15, 2006
Steven Moore, who won the national championship as a cornerback on Ohio State University's 2003 football team, has founded a hedge fund firm and rolled out two funds.
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September 15, 2006
Deephaven Capital Management is planning to roll out a slew of single-strategy funds carved out from its multi-strategy flagship in an apparent push for more institutional assets.
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September 15, 2006
A global macro fund managed by ex-Goldman Sachs trader Chris Clarke and former Tudor Capital trader Hans Summers will be offered to outside investors for the first time next month.
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September 15, 2006
First Quadrant, a Pasadena, Calif.-based firm that manages equities and global macro strategies, has hired researcher Sal Pellettieri from Canadian mutual fund Investors Group.
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September 15, 2006
At a time when capacity is scarce among top-performing managers, funds of funds are increasingly turning their attention toward emerging shops and scrutinizing more than just performance.
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September 15, 2006
About 60 hedge fund managers and institutional investors gathered at Financial Research Associates' Incubation and Seeding Conference Sept. 11-12 in New York.
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September 15, 2006
Renowned manager Rainer-Marc Frey's Swiss firm, Horizon21 Alternative Investments, will open an office in Bratislava before the end of the year.
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September 15, 2006
Fresh off his landmark victory over the Securities and Exchange Commission that overturned the hedge fund registration rule, Phil Goldstein is setting his sights on Rule 13F, as first reported on iialternatives.com Tuesday.
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September 15, 2006
ICV Capital Partners, the New York-based buyout firm that invests in smaller middle market companies, had the final closing on its second fund last week, said Willie Woods, managing director.
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September 15, 2006
The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois may consider increasing its exposure to alternatives once the fund's year-end review is complete, reports AIN sister publication Money Management Letter.
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September 15, 2006
Hank Murphy, principal of Investcorp Asset Management, said his firm provides $40-50 million in seed capital to three managers each year.
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September 15, 2006
KBC Alternative Investment Management has been hiring over the last few months and is close to doubled headcount on a year ago, reports AIN sister publication Derivatives Week.
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September 15, 2006
Randall Dillard, partner at London-based Liongate Capital Management, has shed light on the firm's plans for its second fund of hedge funds, which will launch in the next couple of months.
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September 15, 2006
An occasional column by Logan Short, an astute industry observer. He can be reached at lshort@iinews.com.
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September 15, 2006
Merrill Lynch in New York has hired Joe Farrell, an equity volatility trader at hedge fund giant Millennium Management.
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September 15, 2006
Nottingham- and Birmingham-based private equity firm Catapult Venture Managers will expand its investment team as it prepares to launch its third fund.
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September 15, 2006
The University of St. Thomas is planning to increase its alternatives exposure and has hired Cambridge Associates as its investment consultant, according to AIN sister publication Foundation and Endowment Money Management.
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September 15, 2006
MPC Investors, the hedge fund firm with $1.35 billion under management, is planning to expand its range of funds.
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September 15, 2006
London-based Mulvaney Capital Management's CTA strategy was up 1.95% in August, after three consecutive bad months.
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September 15, 2006
Paris-based Varenne Capital Partners will launch its first strategy at the end of this year, according to Giuseppe Perrone, co-founder.
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September 15, 2006
Paulson Partners has rolled out a credit fund, according to an investor.
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September 15, 2006
Pirate Capital, the activist hedge fund firm run by Tom Hudson, has settled its feud with The Pep Boys--Manny, Moe & Jack.
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September 15, 2006
Private equity firms are increasingly becoming buyers in the hedge fund merger and acquisition market. A recent example was Palm Beach Capital taking an equity position in Weston Capital Management.
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September 15, 2006
New York's Sandell Asset Management has launched a less-diversified, higher-risk version of its $3.3 billion Castlerigg International master fund.
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September 15, 2006
Depression Session. Attendees could be forgiven for becoming dispirited by the conference chairman's opening remarks, which supplied a reality check.
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September 15, 2006
Zurich-based ISPartners Investment Solutions has rolled out an event-driven hedge fund, the Helium Special Situations Fund.
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September 15, 2006
The newly-formed DL Investment Partners, a consulting firm in Switzerland, is seeking fund managers to handle three mandates for three Swiss public pension fund clients reports AIN sister publication Global Money Management.
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September 15, 2006
London-based Threadneedle Investments is seeking to hire an investment specialist.
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September 15, 2006
Bulldog Investors, the activist firm run by well-known manager Phil Goldstein, is turning up the heat on a real estate investment trust.
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September 15, 2006
The Chinese currency has been appreciating in recent weeks--slowly, modestly, and within a controlled range.
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September 14, 2006
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September 14, 2006
The table below displays some of the top performing long/short funds, according to data provided by Eurekahedge.
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September 14, 2006
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September 14, 2006