Category Archives: HedgeCo News

FSA Sets New Rules for UK’s Investment Funds

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Under the FSA�s existing regulatory framework, hedge fund products may not be marketed and sold to retail consumers except in certain circumstances. For example,an appropriately authorized financial adviser can recommend them where they are […]

Commodity Funds Booming Amidst Surges in Commodity Prices

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Investments coming from hedge funds and large financial institutions have helped to boost assets of commodity funds, as increasing number of global investors flockto commodity investments pushing its assets to new levels. There is […]

Man Group plc Launches Registered Fund for US Tax-Advantaged Investors

Man Group plc, the global provider of alternative investment products and futures broker, today announces the launch of the Group’s first US Securities and Exchange Commission registeredfund-of-hedge funds designed specifically for qualified individual retirement accounts and taxexempt investors in the […]

Harris Alternatives LLC to Launch New Equity Hedge Fund

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Chicago based alternative investments asset manager, Harris Alternatives L.L.C. has unveiled new fund of hedge funds. The new product, the Aurora Hedged EquityLLC according to the press release �seeks to achieve long-term capital […]

Euromoney Names Ferro Capital Best Specialist Provider of Hedge Fund Investments for Germany

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Alternative Asset Manager, Ferro Capital has been named as the 2004 �Best Specialist Provider of Hedge Fund Investments� for Germany, by the Euromoney latestprivate banking survey just unveiled. The survey was carried out […]

US Court Sends Fund Manager to Jail, Fines the Other

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – A US court has ordered a futures trader to jail, and also fined the second defendant in charges filled by the authorities of the Commodities and ExchangeCommission [CFTC]. According to the Commodities regulator, one […]

Schroder Investments to Buy Fund of Hedge Funds Operations

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Schroder Investments is gearing up to buy a hedge fund of funds unit; such purchase will firmly establish the asset management as the leading alternativeinvestment manager in Britain. According to published reports, Schroder is […]

Dow Jones & Company Launches Wealth Manager System

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – The Dow Jones & Company announced the launching of its �Wealth Manager� solution, an effort to capture some of the action from alternative investments, such ashedge funds. The new product, according to the press […]

US Stock Funds took $30.5 billion for February

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Investors pumped up US stock mutual funds in February, according to estimated data provided by Lipper Inc. Such inflow was however smaller than January inflows.Seasonal factors may have helped to boost the January data […]

Some Funds Still Trying to Avoid Accountability, SEC says

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Some members of the US Mutual fund industry are still trying to avoid accountability following the scandals which rocked the mutual fund industry and alsoimplicated some hedge fund firms as well. The head of […]

Financial Planners may Increase Hedge Fund Portfolios

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – According to published reports, some of the new hedge fund regulations will mandate that hedge funds be required to register with the SEC. Such registration wouldimply that all hedge fund advisers would be automatically […]

Chairman of National Association of Pension Funds says Hedge Fund Industry is Unstable

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Chris Hitchen, the new Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds said the hedge fund industry is �inherently unstable.� According to him, �this may bethe greatest limited factor in determining the eventual size […]