BERMUDA, HAMILTON, March 2, 2006 – Robin Bedford, President of Dundee Leeds and Charles H. Dufresne, Jr., an attorney at Abbey Gardy, LLP are preparing to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, on March 12-17, in […]

NEW YORK, February 22, 2006 — Jefferies & Company, Inc., the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF), today announced the hiring of a six-person team of industry veterans to enhance its prime brokerage unit. The group will […]

Boca Raton, FL. January 2, 2006 – Crescent City Capital Advisors, L.L.C. (CCCA) announced that they have launched the Crescent City Dedicated Short Fund, L.P., a short-biased hedge fund. Crescent City Capital Advisors L.L.C. is an alternative strategy asset management […]

New York, NY – February 22, 2006 – HedgeOp Compliance, LLC and Backstop Solutions Group, LLC (BSG) announced today that they will jointly host a series of seminars for hedge fund managers. The seminars will deal with the complex and […]

( www.HedgeCo.net )  – Geographically and financially at the crossroads of the new booming Asian economies and those of the established West, the Middle East is increasingly developing the signs of becoming a global economic force causing international executives, bureaucrats […]

HedgeCo.Net – The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is up 3.23% for January 2006, which is the highest monthly return since August 2000, according to Oliver Schupp, President of the Credit Suisse Tremont Index LLC and senior member of the […]

In 2005, the Credit Suisse/Tremont Investable Hedge Fund Index (“INVX”), was up +3.53% net. The INVX outperformed, on a gross basis, four out of five competing investable indices. The INVX finished the year up +4.41% gross, as compared to HFRX, […]

In the hedge fund arena, one quality that managers highlight is their ability to generate alpha. Alpha can be described as the return a manager is able to generate by putting together a portfolio ofsecurities that will outperform the market […]

ST. THOMAS, USVI – Last Atlantis Capital Management, LLC (St. Thomas, USVI) announces the launch of The LACM Long/Short Statistical Arbitrage Program within The Last Atlantis Master Fund. The same manager has traded the program since 1998 using a highly […]

HedgeCo.Net – The FTSE Hedge Global Index continued its upward climb in January, posting gains of 2.12% in US$ terms. This is the third straight month of greater than 1% monthly returns, bringing the last rolling quarter’s cumulative return to […]

HedgeCo.Net – All of the six hedge fund strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes entered 2006 by posting net-of-fees gains in January. One point worth noting is that as per the indexes’ calculation methodology, at the start of […]

HedgeCo.Net – Backstop Solutions Group, LLC (BSG) announced today that MAXAM Capital Management LLC, a diversified investment firm founded by hedge fund luminary Sandra Manzke, has chosen Backstop Investment Partnership Management software (Backstop IPM) to manage MAXAM’s portfolio management, manager […]