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Emerging Hedge Fund Managers Get Fee Cuts Through Philanthropy

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) -Hedge fund admin provider, Variman LLC, and Hedge Funds Care are working together offering discounted monthly service fees to emerging hedge fund managers who donate the standard set-up fee to Hedge Funds Care on behalf of […]

Hedge-Fund Assets Set to Drop $192 Billion by March, UBS Says

Bloomberg – Hedge-fund assets will likely drop by about $192 billion this quarter after the industry posted record losses in 2008, according to estimates by UBS AG. Global assets will likely fall to $1.215 trillion in the first quarter, said […]

GLG, Och-Ziff Earnings Slump on Hedge Fund Losses

Bloomberg – GLG Partners Inc., the hedge-fund firm founded as a unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and Och- Ziff Capital Management Group LLC reported lower fourth-quarter profits as their funds posted losses. GLG’s profit excluding acquisition costs dropped 78 percent […]

Hedge firm GLG assets fall

Reuters – Hedge fund GLG Partners reported a further drop in assets on Thursday and said the cycle of investor redemptions in the industry was not yet over despite its funds’ performance perking up in January. The London-based, New York-listed […]

China wants IMF to be tougher with rich states

Reuters – China, setting out its stall for the next global financial summit, wants the International Monetary Fund to get tougher with developed countries that let their economies run off the rails. In a position paper prepared for the April […]

Hedge Funds, Politics, and the Market Crash

American Thinker – There are several culprits in the recent market crash, but one key source of the problem has hitherto escaped attention: an economic index that can be easily manipulated by hedge funds and whose gyrations have shaken the […]

Arbitrage Lures Gabelli After 920 Hedge Funds Fail

Bloomberg – Mario Gabelli is buying Wyeth to book a 13 percent profit from its takeover by Pfizer Inc. Managers at Cohen & Steers Inc. are scooping up closed-end funds trading at a 16 percent discount to the value of […]

Arbitrage Lures Gabelli, Huntington After 920 Hedge Funds Fail

Bloomberg – Mario Gabelli is buying Wyeth to book a 13 percent profit from its takeover by Pfizer Inc. Managers at Cohen & Steers Inc. are scooping up closed-end funds trading at a 16 percent discount to the value of […]

RAB offloads loss-making funds for £1m

Times Online – RAB Capital has agreed to sell Northwest, its loss-making Asia-focused investment business, back to its founding principals for only £1 million in the latest sign of retrenchment by the AIM-listed London hedge fund manager. RAB, which originally […]

KSK Energy Fund wound up

Reuters India – KSK Emerging India Energy Fund had raised £100 million from AIM last year to invest in Indian energy companies. Global recession has claimed a victim in India. KSK Emerging India Energy Fund (KEF), a £100 million fund […]

Hedge Fund Assets May Fall $450 Billion After Worst Performance

Bloomberg – Hedge funds lost more money in 2008 than any year on record. It may get worse in 2009, forcing fund managers to overhaul investment strategies, reduce fees and make it easier for clients to withdraw cash. The $1.2 […]

Polar Capital hedge fund manager Barnett to leave

Reuters – Polar Capital Holdings Plc said on Wednesday that Julian Barnett, the founder and manager of hedge fund Polar Capital Paragon Fund Ltd, has resigned. The firm said Barnett had decided to leave for personal reasons, and would continue […]