Tag Archives: pension-schemes
Railways pension invests 65 million pounds in hedge fund
Reuters – The UK Railways Pension Schemes, one of the UK’s largest plans, has invested 65 million pounds in London-based asset manager Goodhart Partners’ global long-short equity fund of hedge funds. Railpen Investments, the fund manager of the industry-wide scheme […]
Major pension scheme sticks by hedge fund move
Reuters – The nation’s second-largest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), said it was sticking by a medium-term plan to double exposure to alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity. The 23 billion pound pension scheme confirmed […]
Pharos Hedge Fund Launches Office In Dubai
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Pharos Financial Advisors Limited, a specialist emerging markets fund manager, announced that it has been granted a license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate as an authorised firm within the Dubai International […]
Morgan Stanley’s Frontier Fund Issues Over 7 Million Shares
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – The Morgan Stanley Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) has issued 7,100,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20 per share resulting in gross proceeds to the Fund of approximately $142,000,000. The […]
New Hedge Fund Launches Total Record $19.5 Billion in First Half
New York, July 8, 2008 — The Absolute Return New Funds Survey, published in the July/August issue of Absolute Return magazine, shows that new hedge fund launches this year in the Americas totaled $19.5 billion, with the top five funds […]
Dynamic Launches an Array Of Hedge Funds & FOHFs
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)- Dynamic Funds ("Dynamic") has announced the launch of two global growth funds, the Dynamic Power Global Navigator Class and Dynamic Power Global Balanced Class. The fund manager also launched a hedge fund of funds, the Dynamic […]
Gartmore short India, sees hedge fund rebound
LONDON (Reuters) Gartmore head of global emerging markets Chris Palmer is net short Indian stocks and is concerned about government interference in private enterprise and a lack of financing for growing firms, he told Reuters. Palmer, who manages a range […]
