Tag Archives: liquidity


Renaissance Hedge Fund Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Quantum Global Financial Corp. has launched the  multi strategy New Renaissance Fund with over 37% return for its first 11 months ended May 29, 2009. The fund uses a systematic approach that employs a new […]

Ex-Insight managers launch multi-asset firm

MONACO (Reuters) – Former Insight Investment fund managers Patrick Armstrong and Ana Cukic-Armstrong have launched a new fund management business that will invest in a broad range of assets and seek to beat inflation. The firm, Armstrong Investment Managers, will […]

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

Financial Standard – Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers […]

Fund of hedge funds Castle to add London listing

Reuters – Castle Alternative Invest, a Swiss-listed fund of hedge funds, plans to list in London to improve the liquidity of its shares, its investment manager LGT Capital Partners said on Tuesday. The fund, which has assets of more than […]

FoHF gain liquidity tool

Financial Standard – Australian fund of hedge fund managers can manage liquidity levels in real time after Northern Trust enhanced the firm’s Hedge Fund Monitor product. The feature, which is available via Northern Trust’s relationship with youDevise, allows the fund […]

Hedge Funds Not as Weak as Media Portrays

Seeking Alpha – For the last few months, the media has portrayed the hedge fund industry as in desperate need to hang on to as much capital as possible. Hedge fund limited partners have purportedly been lining up demanding breaks […]

Swiss Hedge Fund Manager Announces Equity Buyback and Investment Program

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Swiss alternative investment company ALTIN AG has said it intends to maintain its share price by buying back between 5% and 10% of its own shares, its Board of Directors has also approved a capital […]

Salus Alpha Hedge Funds Awarded Extraordinary Performance Award

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Vienna based hedge fund manager Salus Alpha Group Services GmbH has been awarded the alternative investments award of geld-magazins for extraordinary good performance for their Salus Alpha Directional Markets UCITS III Funds. The Swedish state […]

Stability can help boost alternative investments

Business24-7 – Stability, and not necessarily an upward move by economies, would be enough to attract investors back to alternative investments such as hedge funds, says Dr Frank Gerhard of Barclays Capital. The crisis has made investors focus more on […]

Hedge Funds Available In Sweden For The First Time

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Swedish state pension platform, PPM, is including Salus Alpha funds in their premium pension portfolio with immediate effect. The Salus Alpha funds that were chosen are UCITS III compliant, and meet the strict requirements […]

Hedge Funds Find Arb Opportunity in SPACs

Street.Com – In a fact sheet about the fund, which engages in several arbitrage strategies, AQR outlined plans to take advantage of a lack of liquidity in the "thinly traded" SPAC market. A spokesman for AQR says the firm is […]

Hedge funds that stay liquid, stay alive

Reuters – The heat is on hedge funds to outperform markets and prove their worth to skeptical investors, and to do so requires strategies based on riding out spikes in volatility, seeking liquidity and deft trading. Returns this year will, […]