HedgeCo.net – WASHINGTON, D.C., November 8, 2006  — On behalf of Managed Funds Association (MFA), John G. Gaine, president, welcomed four new directors to its Board of Directors at its first meeting of the new term, November 1, in New […]

HedgeCo.net – NEW YORK, November 8, 2006 – Zurich Alternative Asset Management, LLC (ZAAM) announced today that it has brought together an experienced team of money managers to invest ZurichFinancial Services’ alternative asset class portfolio.  New York-based ZAAM, a wholly owned […]

Larkspur, CA, November 3, 2006 – LRG Capital Group LLC, a global merchant bank that invests in and provides advisory services to small and mid-cap public companies, today announced that Bryce Suttonhas joined the firm as Director of Sales and […]

HedgeCo.net – Combining emerging hedge fund exposure with the experience of seasoned investment professionals, London-based fund-of-early-stage-hedge-funds manager, Hedge Funds Investment ManagementLtd, which is backed by the pioneering Dr. Nick Dhandsa’s family office, will launch the HFIM Multi-Strategy Fund in December […]

New York, New York– November 1, 2006 – HedgeOp Compliance LLC, a leading provider of specialized products and services to the hedge fund community, and Chief Compliance Officers from several prominent alternative investment firms announced today the formation of the […]

HedgeCo.net —  ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) November 1, 2006 — NorthPoint Trading Partners LLC, a premier prime brokerage and fund services company, has today announced connectivity with PipelineTrading Systems, an anonymous and secure block trading venue. This connection provides NorthPoint Trading […]

HedgeCo.net  – – SAN FRANCISCO, November 1, 2006 – Conifer Securities, LLC, a leading provider of business and operations solutions to hedge fund managers, family offices, foundations andendowments, today announced that Jerry Markowitz has joined as a Partner in New […]

Some prominent voices have maintained that there is a point in a hedge fund portfolio, where additional diversification turns from an improvement of the risk/return characteristics into a worsening. Francois-Serge Lhabitant recently referred to this process as “diworsification”. There is […]

Stamford, CT, and Tokyo, Japan, October 30, 2006 – K2 Advisors, L.L.C. (“K2”), a $5 billion Connecticut-based fund-of-hedge-funds announced today that James (“Jim”) A. Rice has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of the International Group. He is […]

HedgeCo.net ( New York ) –GEM Capital, the manager of the Belvedere Advantaged Muni Fund, the first and largest municipal bond arbitrage fund of funds, hired Talia Williams to manage GEM’s growingoperations and to coordinate the launch of two new […]

HedgeCo.Net (New York) – India is at the top of the BSE index in emerging markets with a 30-share benchmark. The country’s trading has recovered from a steep sell off earlier this year to hit a record high last week […]

HedgeCo.net  NEW YORK AND TORONTO, October 25, 2006 — RBC Capital Markets announced today that it has agreed to acquire the broker-dealer business and certain other assets of the CarlinFinancial Group (the “CFG Business”), a New York-based boutique broker dealer […]