Category Archives: HedgeCo News

Goodbody Set to Launch a New Hedge Fund

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Goodbody investments is preparing to launch a new hedge fund; such move follows the purchase of Davy, a Focus hedge fund management company. According to thereport, Focus now manages funds, which Davy is selling […]

Standard & Poor’s Launches Equity Long/Short Index

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Standard & Poor�s announced the launching of S&P Equity Long/Short Index. According to the release, �The Index is designed to represent the range of hedgefunds that relies on fundamentally driven, bottom-up research for long […]

Hedge Funds introduced to Middle East Investors

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Citigroup Private Bank organized a �get-to-know� meeting with Middle Eastern investors, with the hope to introduce and explain hedge fund investment philosophy andinvestment strategies to the group. Such meeting was organized with the assistance […]

Johannesburg Stock Market Creates new Derivatives Products

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has created new trading instruments; SAFEX an acronym for South African Futures Exchange is a new derivative managementorganization, which will run the new product. The new market will soon be […]

Credit Agricole Asset Management to Launch New Fund of Hedge Funds

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Credit Agricloe Asset Management [CAAM] is currently considering a new hedge fund of funds, with the aim of capturing broad market shifts, across the world.Jean-Claude Kaltenbach, the chairman of Credit Agricole�s alternative investments management […]

Swedish AP-Fonden Considering Hedge Funds

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Swedish fund company, AP-Fonden is considering investing in Hedge Fund managers, according to a news release. The firm stated its intention to research hedgefunds, and its suitability as an investment option for the […]

British RTM Union Raises Concern over Massive Hedge Fund Investment

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The leaders of the British Rail workers union have raised some concerns over what they thought were excessive hedge fund investments. The decision was recentlymade by the pension administrators of Rail Pension Scheme, to […]

BNP Paribas buys Javelin Hedge Funds

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Fauchier Partners, an investment management subsidiary of BNP Paribas has purchased the Javelin fund of hedge funds according to released statement. Javelin fundof hedge funds has about US$650 million in assets, and is owned […]

Hedge Fund Institutional Market in the UK Going Through the Roof

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The hedge fund institutional market in the United Kingdom is gaining momentum. Martin Currie, an Edinburgh based hedge fund manager, said its assets have reachedUS$1 billion mark, about 18 months ahead of schedule. According […]

SEC Approves New Rules against Market Timing

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to pass new provisions against market timing abuses. According to the new rules, mutual fundestablishments must fully detail out their policies to investors with respect to market […]

CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is Up 0.28% in March

NEW YORK, NY, April 15, 2004 — The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is up 0.28% for March 2004, according to Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse First Boston Tremont Index LLC. �Despite a difficult and volatile environment in the equity […]

Massachusetts Pension Fund to Invest with five Hedge Fund Groups

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Massachusetts State Pension fund has appointed five hedge fund groups to help the group implement its hedge fund investment strategy. The state pension fundhas devoted about $1.625 billion to hedge fund investments, according […]