West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) Canadian hedge fund manager, Rival Capital Management launched the Rival North American Growth Fund and since 2007 it has gained more than 80 accredited investors and $15 million in assets under management (AUM).
Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the hedge fund is focused on small/midcap Canadian as well as US growth […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Fund of hedge funds Lighthouse Partners announced that it is expanding its partnership with GlobeOp Financial Services to a full-service fund administration relationship.
More than 20 professionals from the Lighthouse operations team in Florida will work jointly with approximately 85 GlobeOp counterparts in Connecticut, New York State and Mumbai, India […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Independent alternative asset and hedge fund management group, Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited, announced the opening of an office in Dubai to capitalise on the growth opportunities in the region. 
In addition, Gottex appointed Wassim Nasrallah as Managing Director responsible for sales and marketing in the Middle Eastern region. With […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - According to data released by Hedge Fund Research (HFR), the global financial and economic crises accelerated in October, contributing to continued losses in the hedge fund industry, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index falling nearly 6% for the month.
“Performance of the hedge fund industry has declined over 17% […]

Reuters HK - Triple A Partners, an alternative fund firm specialising in seeding new managers, said on Tuesday it would invest an initial $20 million in a new hedge fund launched by Hong Kong’s Enhanced Investment Products Ltd.
Triple A, also known as Asia Alternative Asset Partners, said it had bought a minority equity interest in […]

Reuters UK - Fund manager Aberdeen Asset Management is eyeing opportunities to snap up funds of hedge funds and funds of private equity funds at bargain-basement prices, its chief executive said on Thursday.
Martin Gilbert said that with opportunities in these areas "now pretty strong" as the global financial crisis causes upheaval in the industry, the […]

Times Online - Hedge funds are supposed to like risk and to love leverage. However, in the current markets, it has all got too much for Man Group.
The world’s biggest quoted hedge fund manager – and historically one of the most successful – shocked investors yesterday by announcing plans to unwind all […]

Reuters - Blue Mountain Capital Management LLC has temporarily halted redemptions at its largest hedge fund after clients asked to withdraw money despite its "distinguished" performance, according to a letter to its investors.
New York and London-based Blue Mountain said in the letter it had come up with a "redemption and recapitalization plan" to protect all […]

Hedge Funds Review Magazine - Troubled Swiss-based alternative asset management group Gottex Fund Management Holdings said assets under management (AUM) were down over $2 billion to $13.5 billion at September 30, 2008, compared with $15.6 billion at June 30, 2008. The fall represented a 13.6% decrease.
The fall was mainly caused by “negative […]

NEW YORK – Deals involving asset managers rose in the July to September 2008 period, with the global credit crunch as the backdrop for a jump in divestitures to almost 40% of total sales, up from 23% a year earlier, according to Jefferies Putnam Lovell, the investment banking group of Jefferies & Company, Inc. focused […]

Reuters - GAM, the hedge fund firm owned by Julius Baer AG, is preparing to launch a distressed debt fund of funds after watching asset prices reach "extreme levels", a company letter seen by Reuters said.
In a letter to investors seen by Reuters on Monday, GAM chief executive David M. Solo said: "We are […]

Bloomberg - Asia hedge-fund closures jumped 19 percent this year, with the industry set to shrink for the first time as clients withdraw more money after funds in the region underperformed rivals in the U.S. and Europe.
“It is likely that we’ll see a net reduction in the number of Asian hedge funds through this current […]