Category Archives: Hedge Fund Launches

Investment Team Launches Range of Hedge Funds in London & Hong Kong

New York (HedgeCo.net) – A team led by investment management specialists, Anders Jacobsen and Paul Thompson have launched Galileo Capital Management, a global hedge fund investment management and advisory firm with operations in London and Hong Kong. Galileo Capital Management […]

UCITS III Compliant Fund of Hedge Funds Launched By HSBC

New York (HedgeCo.net) – HSBC has launched a Sterling Class of its HSBC UCITS AdvantEdge fund of hedge funds. The Fund will comply with the new ‘reporting’ tax regime for offshore funds, allowing UK investors to be taxed at capital […]

Truebeta Launches Hedge Fund Replication Model

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Independent, factor-based hedge fund replication service, TrueBeta, is launching a dynamic leverage model for hedge fund replication. The company says the application will improve it’s correlation to broad hedge fund performance. “TrueBeta is setting a benchmark […]

UK Hedge Fund Manager Launches Green Investment Opportunity

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Future Capital Partners (FCP), the £6 billion ($9.68 billion) hedge fund and alternative investment boutique, has launched a groundbreaking investment opportunity that will allow UK investors to invest in the rapidly growing Renewable Transport Fuels (RTF) […]

Hedge Fund Greatwater Shows Strong Gains In First Year

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Greatwater Investment Management, Inc. (GWIM) last year launched  The Greatwater Fund, LP., whose unique strategy and philosophy focuses on risk adjusted returns in the emerging markets. In its first year, The Greatwater Fund gained 69.6%. Domiciled […]

The Half Moon REO Hedge Fund Launch

New York (HedgeCo.net) – New York-based real estate hedge fund The Half Moon group has launched The Half Moon REO Fund, LP. The new fund focuses on financing a strategic network of joint venture partners who are experts in the […]

BNY Launches Independant Hedge Fund Validation Service

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund administrator BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services has launched a service that independently validates a hedge fund’s position records to third-parties – prime brokers, custodians, trustees and agent banks – and independently verifies the pricing […]

Update 3: State Street Buys $170 Billion UK Fund Admin. Company

New York (HedgeCo.net) – State Street Corporation is expanding its global servicing capabilities with an agreement to acquire alternative fund administration company Mourant International Finance Administration in a cash transaction. The UK company is headquartered in Jersey in the Channel […]

Old Lane Founders Launch $300 Million Equities Hedge Fund

New York (HedgeCo.net) – In one of this years biggest U.S. based hedge fund launches, four of the founders of the now defunct Citigroup hedge fund, Old Lane, have a new start up hedge fund, Meru Capital Group. The hedge […]

Jun Mihara Announces Launch of Asian Distressed Debt Hedge Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) Former Merrill Lynch banker Jun Mihara, 45, has announced plans to launch a fund to invest in Asian distressed debt.  Mihara was hired by Zais Group LLC of Red Bank, NJ last month to serve as its […]

Hedge Funds Launching UCTIS Onshore Funds In Europe

New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to research from HedgeFund Intelligence, more than half of the Europe’s hedge fund firms have either launched onshore Undertakings on Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, (UCITS) hedge funds or are considering it. Some of Europe’s […]

Bluenose Launches Capital Market Neutral Hedge Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager, Bluenose Capital Management Ltd. is launching the Bluenose Capital Market Neutral Fund, aimed at accredited and professional investors. Going live on October 1st, 2009, the new fund will employ a proprietary factor-based […]