Tag Archives: founding-partners


Northern Trust to Manage Auda Hedge Assets

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- New York based fund manager Auda Hedge LLC has selected hedge fund manager Northern Trust to provide fund administration, custody, banking and foreign exchange services to its fund of hedge fund program, with assets in excess […]

Report Forecasts Funds Of Hedge Funds To Dominate European Market

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- According to a new report by DataMonitor, ‘Hedge Funds in Europe 2008’, the European hedge fund market is going through a period of growth but the extent of the mortgage-backed security crisis is still uncertain. The […]

Investcorp’s Emerging Hedge Fund Talent Fund Raises $2 Billion

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Investcorp’s hedge fund co-managers said they have raised over $2 billion for their Single Manager Platform. Debuted in 2005, the platform supports emerging talent in the hedge fund industry. Deepak Gurnani, managing director and co-head of […]

SGI Alternative Strategy Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Security Global Investors (SGI) announced a strategic initiative to intensify its capital raising efforts for alternative global equity product offerings. The performance, transparency of the process and a 13-person investment team has garnered attention from hedge […]

HNWIs cool on allocation to hedge funds

Hedge Funds Review Magazine- In early 2007 HNWIs bet heavily on riskier asset classes. However further into the year, financial market turmoil and economic uncertainty intensified and HNWIs began to shift their investments to safer, less volatile asset classes. Exposure […]

EU Recommends a Tightening of Hedge Fund Transparency Laws

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- The EU Parliament has come up with new guidelines regarding hedge fund transparency and ‘asset stripping’. Also proposing some investigative measures and rules so that companies are not left in the dark on the investment policies of […]

Eco-Friendly Fund Gains Attention

New York – Hong Kong based hedge fund manager, PCM Capital, has successfully launched it second Fund of Funds (FoF) – PCM Green Power Fund on 1st, April 2008.  The fund (Class A) returned 1.34% and 1.10% in the first […]

Athamas Hedge Fund Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Athamas Capital, a Luxembourg domiciled alternative investment fund, has announced the launch of the Athamas Capital SICAV SIF Hedge Fund. (Specialised Investment Fund) Launched on June 1st, the hedge fund´s strategy is to achieve an absolute […]

Manager vows to beat hedge fund returns for less

Reuters – Jerome Abernathy has a proposition for the world’s biggest pension funds — better returns than hedge funds without the headaches or heavy costs. This may sound too good to be true to institutional investors, who have poured billions […]

CSX, hedge funds to present cases online

Bizjournals.com- CSX Corp. and the activist hedge funds engaged in a proxy contest with the railroad will make their cases to gain the recommendation of a company many institutional investors rely on when casting shareholder votes. RiskMetrics Group, a proxy […]

RockPort closes $450m cleantech fund

Altassets – Cleantech-focused venture capital firm RockPort Capital Partners has closed its third fund, RockPort Capital Partners III, on over $450m, the hard cap of the fund. It had an initial target of $400m and held a first closing just […]

Value Partners Says Smaller Hedge Funds Risk Being Taken Over

Bloomberg – Value Partners Group Ltd., Asia’s second-largest hedge fund manager by assets, said worsening returns in the industry may lead to bigger firms taking over smaller rivals. “I think the industry may go through certain consolidation,” said Chief Executive […]