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Legg Mason Launches Permal Hedge Strategies Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – $627 billion global asset management firm, Legg Mason has launched Permal Hedge Strategies Fund, a fixed income focused multi-manager, multi strategy fund of hedge funds, on February 1, 2012. “Given market volatility and investor demand for lower […]
Hedge Funds Gaining on CLOs Drives Up Volatility: Credit Markets
Bloomberg – Hedge funds and junk bond investors are emerging as the biggest buyers of leveraged loans, driving up borrowing costs and volatility as the share of the market held by collateralized loan obligations falls to a 14-year low. CLOs […]
SA hedge funds to grow
SA Times – Given the investment potential of emerging markets, together with improved regulation in South Africa, there is no reason why the local hedge fund industry can’t grow over the medium term to well in excess of R100 billion from […]
Data Explorers Launch iPhone App for Hedge Funds and Brokers
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Data Explorers, provider of securities lending data, tracking short selling and institutional fund activity across all global market sectors, today announced the launch of its new hedge fund iPhone app, the first of its kind for […]
Funds of hedge funds: Change or die
FierceFinance – The poor performance of hedge funds in general was especially bad news for funds of hedge funds. On the surface, the poor performance confirms an identity crisis for funds of funds, one that began with the financial crisis. The […]
Goldman backs Robinson’s new hedge fund
Financial News – Robinson was co-founder of Trafalgar Asset Managers, a hedge fund manager in which Petershill bought a 20% stake in April 2008. The terms of the agreement gave Petershill the right to retain a passive minority stake in […]
Hedge fund Gottex to cut costs as assets shrink
Reuters – Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex GFMS.S said it would slash running costs by 15 percent in 2012 after assets fell by some $1 billion (637 million pounds) from a year earlier as some large clients pulled […]
South Carolina Fund Gets No Gain Paying Big Fees, Treasurer Says
Bloomberg – South Carolina’s $26 billion pension fund paid excessive fees while trailing peers after an overseer invested half the plan’s assets with hedge funds and private- equity firms, state Treasurer Curtis Loftis said. The South Carolina Retirement System would […]
Hedge fund managers to outspend bankers on London homes
Reuters – Shrinking bonus pools in the City of London will reduce bankers’ clout in the capital’s buoyant prime housing market this year, with hedge fund managers set to outspend them for the first time, data from Savills showed. The […]
Hedge Funds Back Romney Super PAC
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge funds have been the biggest doners to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC, “Restore Our Future.” Almost 60 corporations and wealthy individuals donated at least $100,000 each to the Romney PAC, which raised more than $20 million in […]
Hedge funds brace for euro zone break-up
Reuters – Nervous hedge funds managers are stress-testing their portfolios and searching for ways of protecting themselves against their worst nightmare — a potential break-up of the euro zone. With talks on restructuring Greece’s debt mountain still deadlocked, and the exit […]
Hedge Fund Administrator GlobeOp Opens Green Mumbai Office
New York (HedgeCo.net) – GlobeOp Financial Services has added a hedge fund administration and data centre facility in Airoli in Mumbai. The new office is located in the same Airoli business complex as GlobeOp’s third Mumbai office, opened in 2009. More than 1,675 […]