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AIMB Launched by Hedge Fund Restructuring Advisors

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Alternative money managers and hedge fund restructuring advisers, Grisons Peak and IGS, have formed a joint venture to launch the Alternative Investment Merchant Banking (AIMB). The AIMB is to advise on M&A and restructuring deals for […]

Funds of Hedge Funds: ‘A Diminishing Slice Of a Growing Pie’

Seeking Alpha – As the Wall Street Journal pointed out earlier this week, “It may be premature to write the epitaph for funds of hedge funds”. Maybe so, but with predictions for redemptions running in the high teens for this […]

Mooring Hedge Fund Gains Amid Losses

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Mooring Financial Corp., a private investment firm specializing in the management of alternative assets, has seen its hedge fund, the Mooring Intrepid Opportunity Fund gain 37% year-to-date, while global hedge fund returns have declined almost […]

Making money from hedge funds

InvestorDaily- While Australian superannuation funds and institutional investors have discovered hedge funds, their participation is not to the extent of most of their developed market peers. But the current market downturn may change that behaviour, because the juicy returns they […]

Report: SA Hedge Funds Growing

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- A Hedgeweek Special Report for March 2008 shows a strengthening of the South African hedge fund industry from just a few funds with aproximately ZAR1.4 billion ($0.18 billion) in as recently as mid-2002, to more than […]

Sovereign funds may have biggest impact on alternative assets

Reuters- Sovereign wealth funds, which control up to $3.7 trillion in assets and have been making headlines as they buy assets in the West, will ultimately have the biggest impact on private equity and hedge funds, analysts at JPMorgan Chase […]