(Reuters)U.S. power company Sempra Energy said on Monday it would sell is Chilean businesses to China’s State Grid International Development Ltd for $2.23 billion in cash as part of its plan to exit South America and shore up capital. Sempra, […]

(Opalesque) British hedge fund manager Man Group reported funds under management (FUM) of $112.7 billion at 30 September 2019, down from $114.4 billion at the end of June, after net outflows of $1.1 billion and currency losses of $1.3 billion […]

(Opalesque) Goodhart Partners has taken a minority stake in Albright Capital through its Volunteer Park Capital Fund. Volunteer Park makes strategic minority investments in select private capital investment management firms. To read this article:

(Opalesque) Privium Fund Management has hired Vanessa Hemavathi as Head of Investments Services for Asia. She joins from Inflection Point Intelligence, where she spearheaded global growth of the Henley Executive Hedge Fund Program. At Privium, she will be pivotal to […]

(Reuters) – By early last week, hedge funds had become the most bearish toward petroleum prices since the start of the year, as traders grew increasingly pessimistic about the global economy. To read this article:

(HedgeWeek) Alternative asset manager Trium Capita which offers investors a diverse range of hedge funds and liquid alternative UCITS funds, has appointed Patrick Mang to the newly created role of chief operating officer. Mang joins from HSBC, where he was […]

(Bloomberg) Lime Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest hedge fund with about $4 billion of assets, suspended withdrawals from more funds on Monday, freezing a total of $710 million of its portfolio, after the firm said last week it couldn’t […]

(Bloomberg) Blackstone Group Inc. held talks about buying a stake in Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.14 per cent in September, underperforming the 0.45 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. […]

(Hedgeweek) Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has launched a new actively managed emerging markets short duration bond fund, The BlueBay Emerging Market Aggregate Short Duration Bond Fund. To read this article:

(Hedgeweek) Sycomore Asset Management (Sycomore AM) has broadened its range of SRI funds with the launch of SRI Next Generation, a fund with a focus on companies offering business models that are compatible with sustainable growth objectives. To read this […]

(Reuters) – Activist shareholder Amber Capital, which is being sued by Lagardere (LAGA.PA), said on Monday the lawsuit was baseless and it would continue to seek strategy and management changes at the French publishing group. To read this article: