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Chris Shumway runs a $5 billion hedge fund and is best known for intensive fundamental research to create long/short equity portfolios. He is a ‘Tiger Cub’ because he formerly served as Julian Robertson’s right-hand man while at Tiger Management. Taken from our post on ‘Tiger Cub’ biographies:
Chris Shumway is the Founding Partner of Shumway Capital Partners (“SCP”), an investment management firm founded in 2001. SCP, which manages a multibillion dollar group of private investment funds, uses a private equity-like research model for public market investment on a global basis. Prior to forming SCP, Mr. Shumway was a Senior Managing Director at Tiger Management (1992-1999), an Analyst at Brentwood Associates (1990-1991), and an Analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. (1988-1990). He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1993) and a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (1988).
Caymen Net News – Local hedge fund experts have reacted favourably to last week’s proposals by the Inspector General of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to increase fund regulation.
The SEC has proposed that regulation of hedge funds and other investment advisors should be tightened in the wake of the SEC’s failure to stop Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Don Seymour, former Head of the Investment Services Division of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and Managing Director of dms Management Ltd, said:
“These are meaningful suggestions that are worth consideration. If implemented, they would both enhance protections to investors and respect the privacy of private investment funds, in stark contrast to recent disclosure proposals put forward locally by individuals that do not address systemic risks and betray the private nature of investment funds.”
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund tax manager at Wellington Management Company, John F. Harvey III, has joined international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP as a partner in the Boston office.
At Proskauer, Harvey will be a partner in the Tax Department, where he will focus on tax aspects related to the formation, operation and investment activities of a broad range of private investment funds, such as buyout, venture and hedge funds, among other things.
“John’s unique and varied skill set will serve as an ideal strategic complement both here in Boston and across the firm,” Steven M. Ellis, head of Proskauer’s Boston office, said. “Our private investment funds practice is extremely tax intensive and, as we expand our capabilities around the world, this experience becomes even more important. John is a key addition to what is already a tremendous platform.”
Proskauer’s Private Investment Funds Practice Group, which is recognized by Chambers USA, US Legal 500 and numerous other directories and publications as among the leading practices of its kind, represented sponsors in closing more than 125 funds with over $30 billion in committed capital and closed more than 450 investments in all types of funds, representing well over $19 billion, in 2008.
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West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund tax manager at Wellington Management Company, John F. Harvey III, has joined international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP as a partner in the Boston office.
At Proskauer, Harvey will be a partner in the Tax Department, where he will focus on tax aspects related to the formation, operation and investment activities of a broad range of private investment funds, such as buyout, venture and hedge funds, among other things.
“John’s unique and varied skill set will serve as an ideal strategic complement both here in Boston and across the firm,” Steven M. Ellis, head of Proskauer’s Boston office, said. “Our private investment funds practice is extremely tax intensive and, as we expand our capabilities around the world, this experience becomes even more important. John is a key addition to what is already a tremendous platform.”
Proskauer’s Private Investment Funds Practice Group, which is recognized by Chambers USA, US Legal 500 and numerous other directories and publications as among the leading practices of its kind, represented sponsors in closing more than 125 funds with over $30 billion in committed capital and closed more than 450 investments in all types of funds, representing well over $19 billion, in 2008.
HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!