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Penjing’s Wu to Expand Seeding of New Hedge Funds

Bloomberg – Ronnie Wu, chief investment officer of the $400 million hedge fund of funds house Penjing Asset Management Ltd., will start a pool of money dedicated to providing early investments to new hedge funds next month. It aims to […]

Madoff Trustee Says Vizcaya Hedge Fund Ignored Suit Against It

Bloomberg – Michael McCarty, former chief equity and options strategist at Meridian Equity Partners Inc. in New York, plans to start a hedge fund next month that will make bets on price discrepancies between similar exchange-traded funds. McCarty, 49, said […]

Meriwether Said to Shut JWM Hedge Fund After Losses

Bloomberg – John Meriwether, who roiled global markets when Long-Term Capital Management LP collapsed in 1998, plans to shut his current hedge fund, according to a person familiar with the matter. JWM Partners LLC is closing its main Relative Value […]

Camulos May Give Mariner Role in Hedge-Fund Business Operations

Bloomberg – Camulos Capital LP, a hedge-fund firm founded by former Soros Fund Management LLC trader Richard Brennan, is in talks to have Mariner Investment Group run its business operations. Mariner, an $11 billion firm managed by Bill Michaelcheck, may […]

Sparx to Start New Global Macro Hedge Fund, President Abe Says

Bloomberg – Sparx Group Co., Asia’s biggest hedge-fund manager, plans to start its first global macro fund, adding a strategy that was among the few winners in 2008 when an equities rout led to the only annual loss in its […]

Sumitomo Trust Finance to Start New Japan-Focused Hedge Fund

Bloomberg – Sumitomo Trust Finance (H.K.) Ltd., the asset-management unit of Japan’s fifth-biggest bank, will start a new multi-strategy hedge fund that invests in Japanese stocks, index options, futures and credit-default swaps. The Tactical Equity Concepts-Japan Fund, also called TEC- […]

CIC Said to Invest $500 Million in Hedge Funds, Blackstone

Bloomberg – China Investment Corp., the nation’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, may invest as much as $500 million in hedge funds including those run by Blackstone Group LP, said two people familiar with the matter. CIC aims to allocate […]

China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Aims to Invest in Hedge Funds

Bloomberg – Felix Chee, an adviser to China’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, said it aims to make investments in hedge funds. “We will have a preference for managed accounts,” he said in an interview today at the GAIM International […]

China?s Sovereign Wealth Fund Aims to Invest in Hedge Funds

June 17 (Bloomberg) —  Felix Chee, an adviser to China’s $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, said it aims to make investments in hedge funds. “We will have a preference for managed accounts,” he said in an interview today at the […]

Hedge-Fund Startups Sprout as Roc Gathers $1 Billion

June 16 (Bloomberg) — Arvind Raghunathan , former head of Deutsche Bank AG’s global arbitrage business, will open his new hedge-fund firm next month with more than $1 billion, a sign that investors are trickling back after record losses last […]

Thurman Helps Hedge-Fund Manager’s Daughter Raise Money in N.Y.

Bloomberg – At 17, Eugenie Iseman says she’s too young to attend college, but is old enough to enlist Uma Thurman to help the poor in Liberia. It doesn’t hurt that she has the backing of her father and hedge-fund […]

Brevan Howard Said to Spin Off Teams to Manage Two New Funds

Bloomberg – Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, Europe’s largest hedge-fund manager, spun off groups of credit and currency traders to manage two new funds, people familiar with the situation said. Luke Ding, who trades foreign exchange for the flagship Brevan […]