Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Former Wall Street Strategist Launches Small Caps Research Firm
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Satya D. Pradhuman, former Chief Small Cap Strategist at Merrill Lynch, has launched Cirrus Research LLC, an independent research firm specializing in the small, mid and micro cap areas. “We are offering a macro approach to […]
RBC Hedge Fund Index Up in June
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- RBC Capital Markets reported that the RBC Hedge 250 Index for the month of June 2007 had a net return of 0.61%, bringing the year-to-date return of the Index to 7.02%. The RBC Hedge 250 Index […]
London Stock Exchange Launches Specialist Fund Market
West palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- The London Stock Exchange announced the launch a new market for issuers of specialist funds. The Specialist Fund Market will work with professional investors such as hedge funds to satisfy the market need which will exist […]
Hedge Funds End First Half of 2007 at +7.86%
New York (HedgeCo.Net)- According to early estimates at the HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average was +1.40% in June 2007 and ended the first half of 2007 +7.86%. The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average is an equal weighted average of all single manager hedge […]
New Report On Hedge Funds And Prime Brokers
West Palm Beach (Hedgeco.Net)- Bharat Book Bureau has released a report called “Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers”, the report explores the ever-changing and dynamic hedge fund-prime broker relationship through the use of a panel comprising of some of the world’s experts in […]
Hedge Fund Launches Comeback In 2007
HedgeCo.net (New York) – The Absolute Return New Funds Survey, published in the July/August issue of Absolute Return magazine, shows that new hedge fund launches in the United States so far this year are up sharply over the same period […]
Conifer Securities Apoints New Director of Sales
HedgeCo.net (New York) – Conifer Securities, LLC, a leading provider of business and operations solutions to hedge fund managers, family offices and foundations and endowments, today announced that David C. Sandrew has joined as Director of Sales in the firm’s […]
Stonebrook Capital Adds General Counsel
HedgeCo.net (New York) – Stonebrook Capital Management LLC (“Stonebrookâ€Â), a leading alternative investment firm specializing in Alternative Beta solutions, today announced that Paul A. Freilich has joined the firm as General Counsel. In this newly created position, Mr. Freilich, 46, […]
SPARX Group Debuts China Fund of Funds
HedgeCo.net – SPARX Group Co. Ltd.’s Fund-of-Funds unit today announced the launch of a new strategy targeting hedge funds focused on Greater China. The strategy, which has been seeded with US$25 million by a pension fund, will be overseen locally […]
Off-Ziff Hedge Fund Files To List Class A Shares On NY Stock Exchange
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A shares, representing Class A limited liability company interests. The […]
Survey Finds Regulations More Daunting Than Hedge Funds In US Market
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- According to a survey of leading IPO attorneys by Gavin Anderson & Company, respondents generally dismissed the idea that shareholder activism by hedge funds and other institutional investors made U.S. markets less attractive for issuers. Gavin […]
AIMA Responds on UK FSA
Hedgeco.net – The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the leading global hedge fund and alternative investment industry association has welcomed the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) proposal to allow authorised onshore Funds of Alternative Investment Funds (FAIF’s). AIMA strongly believes that […]