Reuters – Cazenove Absolute Equity, part of investment company Cazenove Capital Management, said on Tuesday it was launching a new fund of hedge funds via an IPO later this month aimed at retail andinstitutional investors. Up to 100 million shares […]

MSNBC – Institutions such as pension funds will pour more than $500bn into hedge funds in the next four years, accounting for more than half of the expected inflows. According to a study by Casey, Quirk & Associates and the […]

MSN MoneyCentral – Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, hinted strongly last night that he would prefer tougher regulation of hedge funds but said any measures would have torepresent “a global solution”. The Frankfurt-based ECB has gone further […]

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Global institutional demand for hedge funds will triple by 2010, increasing from $360 billion currently to more than $1 trillion, according to a new study of leading institutional investors, investment consultants and hedge funds […]

Forbes – The Greenwich-Van Global Hedge Fund Index returned +.10% in September according to a preliminary report released today by Greenwich-Van Advisors, LLC, a leading hedge fund index provider. In comparison, the S&P 500, NASDAQ, Nikkei 225 and the Lehman […]

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Orange County Register – Wherever you travel on the information highway, look out for factoids. These tricky little creatures are bits of supposed knowledge that nobody has bothered to verify. They take on the aura of truth as they are […]

Reuters – Long-term investors in the world’s largest stock exchanges should watch out for short-term hedge funds driving them into bad mergers, the head of the New York Stock Exchange was quoted in anewspaper on Monday as saying. The prospect […]

Santa Cruz Sentinel – In a spectacular blowup, Amaranth Advisors LLC lost $6 billion of its $9.5 billion of assets in a single month. The fund achieved this feat by making a highly leveragedwrong-way bet on the direction of natural […]

Life Style Extra – Thomas H Lee Capital Management said it plans to float its fund of funds hedge fund, Lee Diversified Opportunities Limited, on the London Stock Exchange. Its main focus will be on mitigating risk and preserving capital, […]

Reuters – Private bankers say clients remain sanguine about the hedge fund industry in spite of billions of dollars in losses reported by two top hedge funds in the past month. At the Reuters Wealth Management Summit in Geneva, top […]

New Zealand Herald – A record number of hedge funds are being liquidated and the rate of start-ups has slowed dramatically, according to new research. The quarterly performance data from Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research will stir fresh concern about an […]