HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge fund manager OakRun Capital announced the appointment of Mark Potter and Brian Long, both experienced Asia investment executives. The expansion is to build strategic relationships with local institutional investors and provide access to its hedge funds and investment products, including the new OakRun Short Term Income Fund.

Potter, an experienced investment executive based in Singapore, joins the firm as Director of Asia Institutional Marketing and Distribution. Long, a senior level investment professional based in Singapore, has been named Director of Asia Institutional Relations.

The OakRun Short Term Income Fund charges a 1% management fee and a 10% incentive fee with a $1MM minimum investment requirement, it returned 0.73% (9.26% Annual Yield) for June 2009 and paid out its third quarterly dividend.

“Asia is a natural market for OakRun Capital," Potter explained, "Together, the team has extensive experience in the region, speaks several local languages and has built very strong personal and institutional relationships."

"The flagship Short-Term Income Fund has received incredible initial feedback from institutions. There are very few products or funds, if any, like the OakRun Short Term Income fund that can provide investors with high credit quality, superior performance, and stable income distributions. The fund is invested in highly liquid instruments with substantially higher yields than comparable investments with duration of less than 45 days,” Portfolio Manager, Arturo Neto, CFA, said.

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New York (HedgeCo.Net) – GLG Partners started off the new year by suspending its dividend payments, after capping off a year that saw a steady decline in share value. 

This is the first time that GLG, who used to manage $24 billion, has done away with the dividend since it was listed in late 2007.  However, with hedge funds seeing a record number of redemption requests, GLG, along with other hedge funds may be trying to salvage as much capital as they can.  GLG currently manages an estimated $17 billion.

“We have decided at this time that it is prudent to retain capital rather than continue paying a regular quarterly dividend,” said Noam Gottesman, Chairman and Co-CEO of GLG.

2008 was a tough year for hedge funds across the board.  The $3 trillion that the industry was thought to manage at one point, should dwindle down to about $1 trillion, experts say.  On average, hedge funds dropped about 19 percent in 2008, according to the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index.

Shares of GLG closed at $2.27 yesterday, dropping over 80 percent since March 2008.

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