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October 25, 2006
Joseph Belan's Zug, Switzerland-based Pala Investments today launched a $900 million fund focused on natural resources.
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October 20, 2006
Ian Cadby, ceo and cio at Ermitage Limited, on the future of the hedge fund industry.
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October 20, 2006
Acuity Capital Management, a convertible arbitrage hedge fund firm in Greenwich, Conn., has opened an office in Singapore and is seeking to ramp up global operations in the coming months.
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October 20, 2006
Convexity Capital Management was appointed Hedge Fund Manager of the Year and the Private Equity Manager of the Year award went to The Blackstone Group at an awards ceremony and dinner on Monday Oct. 16 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco hosted in conjunction with Information Management Network.
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October 20, 2006
Michael Hecht, founder of currency hedge fund firm Copenhagen Fund Management, has ceased trading his fund.
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October 20, 2006
Vinya Capital, a hedge fund firm that launched to much fanfare nearly two years ago but was not able to grow beyond its $40 million startup capital, is refocusing its investment efforts on India and South Asia.
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October 20, 2006
Fund of hedge fund managers have acknowledged that the performance of hedge funds over the past few years has not met expectations and that a possible long-term decline in returns will have implications for funds of funds.
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October 20, 2006
The number of hedge fund managers that deregistered from the Securities and Exchange Commission as a result of the June 23 appeals court decision that vacated the SEC's hedge fund registration rule has jumped to 114, said John Nester, spokesman of the SEC.
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October 20, 2006
Hermes Private Equity, an arm of the £65 billion investment management giant that manages the pension fund assets of British Telecom and Royal Mail, is making a big move into infrastructure.
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October 20, 2006
HB Capital Partners is readying what is believed to be the first ever hedge fund focused on Indonesia.
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October 20, 2006
Managed Futures giant John W. Henry & Company was successful with its energy bets in September but failed to generate returns in its currency plays.
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October 20, 2006
The Kern County Employees Retirement Association intends to search for a hedge fund manager toward the middle of next year to handle about $77 million.
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October 20, 2006
Third Point, the activist hedge fund firm run by outspoken manager Daniel Loeb, is upset at Nabi Biopharmaceuticals' decision to sell its PhosLo drug line to Fresenius USA Manufacturing.
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October 20, 2006
Culross Global Management, a London-based fund of hedge funds firm, will expand its team as it gears up to grow assets under management.
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October 20, 2006
London-based Mulvaney Capital Management's systematic CTA fund made 1% in September, thanks largely to short positions in cotton and natural gas, which both traded lower due to mild weather patterns in the U.S.
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October 20, 2006
Paul Myners has given the hedge fund industry a boost by predicting that 25-30% of U.K. pension funds will be invested in hedge fund strategies within the next few years.
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October 20, 2006
Noble Fund Managers, the Edinburgh- and London-based alternatives arm of U.K. investment bank Noble Group, is seeking to hire a head of funds marketing.
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October 20, 2006
The trustees of the £560 million Novartis U.K. Ltd Pension Scheme met last month to discuss alternative asset classes, including commodities, reports AIN sister publication Global Money Management.
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October 20, 2006
Informal communications between hedge fund managers have come under heightened scrutiny as regulators look to see whether they could be the basis for alleging the managers acted as a group pursuing a single investment strategy
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October 20, 2006
The San Bernardino (Calif.) County Employees Retirement System's investment committee decided Oct. 17 to recommend a $45 million allocation to distressed debt and a $40 million investment in energy special situations funds, reports AIN sister publication Money Management Letter.
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October 20, 2006
Toronto-based Sextant Capital Management is preparing to launch an offshore version of its commodities strategy.
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October 20, 2006
Toronto-based hedge fund firm T.I.P. Wealth Manager is planning to launch an offshore version of its North American long/short equity fund.
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October 20, 2006
Dunedin Capital Partners, an Edinburgh- and London-based mid-market private equity firm focused on U.K. buyouts, is seeking to hire more analysts.
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October 20, 2006
UBS Global Asset Management will launch a 130/30 Asian strategy next month, following the launches of U.S. and European versions in September 2005 and June this year, respectively.
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October 20, 2006
WMG Limited, which is run by well-known manager Mehmet Dalman, is planning a spate of fund launches.
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October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006
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October 19, 2006