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Hedge Funds Lower Fees, Lengthen Investor Lockups

Bloomberg – Artradis Fund Management Pte, RAB Capital Plc’s Northwest unit and Cannizaro (Hong Kong) Ltd. are cutting fees and locking up investors’ money for longer in new hedge funds that will buy bonds after prices fell in Asia. Merrill […]

Hedge Funds Lower Fees, Lengthen Lockups on New Bond Funds

Bloomberg – Artradis Fund Management Pte, RAB Capital Plc’s Northwest unit and Cannizaro (Hong Kong) Ltd. are cutting fees and locking up investors’ money for longer in new hedge funds that will buy bonds after prices fell in Asia. Merrill Lynch & […]

Gottex hedge funds impacted by high redemptions

Hedge Funds Review Magazine – Troubled Swiss-based alternative asset management group Gottex Fund Management Holdings said assets under management (AUM) were down over $2 billion to $13.5 billion at September 30, 2008, compared with $15.6 billion at June 30, 2008. […]

Artradis AB2 Fund Said to Profit During Market Rout

Bloomberg – The Artradis AB2 fund, run by Singapore’s biggest hedge-fund firm, gained 4.96 percent in September, when Asian equities had their worst month in 18 years, two people with knowledge of its performance said. The $2.2 billion hedge fund, […]

Hedge funds bolster self-regulation drive

Reuters – The Hedge Fund Standards Board, the body set up to develop voluntary standards in the industry, said on Wednesday it now represents about half of hedge fund assets in Europe. The announcement comes as hedge funds attempt to […]

LaSalle raises $3 billion Asia property fund

Reuters – LaSalle Investment Management has raised a $3 billion (1.64 billion pounds) "opportunity" fund for Asian property, saying it is interested in investing in Japan, China and South Korea. The fund management unit of property services firm Jones Lang […]

Fund manager DEGI buys $247 mln Polish business park

Reuters UK – DEGI, a fund management unit of Aberdeen Property Investors, has bought one of Warsaw’s biggest business parks for 167 million euros (135 million pounds) in a bid to boost its exposure to Poland’s fast-growing economy. The 43,700 […]

Brown joins Collins Stewart as head of fund sales

Investment Week- Collins Stewart Fund Management has appointed Mike Brown as head of fund sales. He will lead sales of the multi-asset, multi-manager funds and specialist equity, fixed interest and hedge funds from the offshore group. Products under his remit […]

Asia’s 5 Largest Single-Manager Hedge Funds

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Asia-based funds are getting bigger according to Alpa Magazine. Several of the funds on the list are relative newcomers and five members of the Asia 25 ranking were not on the list last year. The 25 […]

VCM Preps Trio of Hedge Funds

FINalternatives- London-based VCM Fund Management is prepping a trio of hedge funds to invest in alternative energy, macro futures and emerging hedge fund managers.  The firm next month will launch two hedge funds in partnership with K2 Capital, the alternative […]

ICICI Ventures to list $1.5bn realty fund on London Stock Exchange

MSN India- ICICI Venture Fund Management is planning to list its $1.5 billion real estate fund on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).  According to sources, the fund house will be providing the flexibility in the document to list the realty […]