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Hedge Funds May Fall to $1 Trillion by Mid-2009, Citigroup Says

Bloomberg - Hedge-fund assets may fall to about $1 trillion by the middle of next year, a decline of almost 50 percent from their peak in June, because of market losses and client withdrawals, Citigroup Inc. said in a report.
Managers are likely to see investors, led by funds of funds, pull 20 percent of their […]

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Hedge Funds Lost $100 Billion on Investor Withdrawals

Bloomberg - The global hedge fund industry lost $100 billion of assets in October, according to an estimate from Eurekahedge Pte, as firms including Sparx Group Co. and Man Group Plc were hammered by investor redemptions.
Funds fell an average 3.3 percent, based on preliminary figures from the Singapore-based data provider, as measured by the Eurekahedge […]

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Brazil Hedge Funds See Record Outflows Even as They Beat Market

Bloomberg - Brazilian hedge funds saw a record 14.3 billion reais ($6.7 billion) in withdrawals last month after returns trailed a fixed-income benchmark even while defying a 25 percent plunge in the Bovespa stock index.
The redemptions brought total outflows this year to 48.9 billion reais, shrinking the industry by 16 percent, according to data released […]

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Hedge funds navigate maze of redemptions

Wealth Bulletin - Millionaire hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde might have got it right. The man whose valediction last month to his industry peers announced that “with all due respect, I am dropping out”, left the industry while the going was still relatively good.
, at the time of his speech, nine out of every 10 […]

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Brazil Hedge Funds See Record Outflows Even as They Beat Market

Bloomberg - Brazilian hedge funds saw a record 14.3 billion reais ($6.7 billion) in withdrawals last month after returns trailed a fixed-income benchmark even while defying a 25 percent plunge in the Bovespa stock index.
The redemptions brought total outflows this year to 48.9 billion reais, shrinking the industry by 16 percent, according to data released […]

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Permal Suspends Withdrawals From Two Hedge Funds Run by NWI

Bloomberg - Permal Group temporarily blocked clients from taking money out of two hedge funds that invest with NWI Management LP while NWI changes its redemption rules, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The firm, based in London, froze the $700 million Permal Fixed Income Special Opportunities Ltd. and $350 million Permal Global Opportunities […]

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Hedge fund Autonomy Capital halts withdrawals-report

Reuters - Autonomy Capital Research LLP, a $1.7 billion hedge-fund firm run by former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc trader Robert Gibbins, halted withdrawals from its flagship fund after losses this year, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
The $1.2 billion Autonomy Capital Fund slumped about 40 percent this year through […]

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Moore Hires Greg Coffey as European Co-Chief Investment Officer

Bloomberg - Moore Capital Management LLC, founded by Louis Bacon almost two decades ago, tapped Greg Coffey, former GLG Partners Inc.’s top-performing money manager, to be co-chief investment officer of Moore’s European business.
Coffey, 37, will join London-based Moore Europe Capital Management LLP with a 12-person team. Eric Dannheim, a senior member of that team will […]

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Hedge Fund Pentwater Suspends Redemptions

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - In a letter to investors, Hedge Fund manager Pentwater Capital announced that due to a number of unexpected redemption notices for year-end they have suspended redemptions and withdrawals, effective immediately.
"The entire hedge fund industry is bracing for large redemptions at year-end so as not to become forced sellers in the […]

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T. Boone Pickens liquidates energy equity hedge fund

Dallas Morning News - Hedge fund operator and oil prognosticator T. Boone Pickens liquidated one of his hedge funds last month as the stock markets plunged.
The Dallas billionaire converted his energy equity fund to cash and offered investors the opportunity to withdraw their money early.
The fund started with $2 billion […]

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Deephaven Freezes Multistrategy Hedge Fund to Avoid Asset Sales

Bloomberg - Deephaven Capital Management LLC, the hedge-fund unit of stockbroker Knight Capital Group Inc., froze a $1.6 billion fund after investors asked to get back 30 percent of their money.
Withdrawals from the Deephaven Global Multistrategy Fund were suspended so managers wouldn’t be forced to sell assets in falling stock and debt markets, the Minnetonka, […]

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Investors Flee Boone Pickens’ Hedge Fund: Report

CNBC - About half of the investors in T. Boone Pickens’ energy-oriented equity hedge fund have asked to withdraw their money on the heels of losses of about 60 percent this year, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people close to the matter.

Pickens and his investment fund have lost $2 billion since peaking in late […]

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