Tag Archives: absolute-return
Edinburgh Firm Expands Hedge Fund Business
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Specialist active equity manager, Martin Currie Investment Management Limited, has expanded its global hedge fund arm with two senior hires, Alastair Barrie and Clayton Cheek. Barrie joins in the newly created role of global head […]
USS hires UBS to deliver hedge fund of funds admin services
Professional Pensions – The Universities Superannuation Scheme has appointed UBS Global Asset Management – Fund Services to deliver hedge fund of funds administration services. The country’s second largest pension fund said it had enhanced its in-house hedge fund selection capability […]
Bandon Flagship Strategy Gains Momentum, 5th Year Reached
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Bandon Capital Management has reached it’s 5th year for its hedge fund flagship investment strategy, ‘Directional Interest Rate Strategy’, (DIRS) producing annualized returns of +7.09% net of all fees, comparatively over the same time period […]
Hedge Fund Group Awarded Private Equity By Korean Sovereign Wealth Fund
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Swiss-based alternative asset manager, Partners Group, has been selected as the manager for a private equity secondary mandate by the sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC). KIC aims to profit from current dislocations in […]
Bandon Provides Smaller Investors Access To Flagship Hedge Fund Strategy
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge fund manager Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has made it’s flagship investment strategy, DIRS – Directional Interest Rate Strategy – available to investment advisors through Adhesion’s WealthADV UMA platform. The flagship strategy, celebrating it’s 5th […]
MFA Commends CCP Working Group Report
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Press Release – Hedge fund, funds of funds and managed futures funds group, the Managed Funds Association (MFA) has commended the working group paper, “Report to the Supervisors of the Major OTC Derivatives Dealers on […]
J.Michael Miller To Develop Bandon’s Intermediary Market, Flagship Hedge Fund Anniversary
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Alternative investment management company, Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has hired J. Michael Miller as Managing Director responsible for the development and management of the financial intermediary market. Miller has over 25 years of experience in […]
Hedge Fund Magazine Launch in September
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Euromoney Institutional Investor is planning to launch a new magazine and online offering covering US and international hedge funds in September. The company’s hedge fund publishing assets include Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine and Absolute Return […]
Hedge Fund of Funds Program Launched By Arden Asset Management and J.P. Morgan
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Arden Asset Management LLC, a leading independent fund of hedge funds manager, and J.P. Morgan today announced an agreement under which Arden will manage a $1.1 billion proprietary hedge fund of funds portfolio for J.P. […]
May Was Good to Hedge Funds – But How’s The Future
CNBC – Hedge funds posted their best monthly performance in a decade in May, taking advantage of rallying stock markets and distressed opportunities across the board, according to the latest numbers from the Absolute Return Composite of hedge fund indices.The […]
Ark aims to rise above recession with charity extravaganza
Telegraph.co.uk – Mayor Boris Johnson will welcome guests, thought to include Tony Blair, Elton John and Jemima Khan, who have paid up to £100,000-a-table to be at the event at the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo. Despite being dubbed Britain’s […]
Australia’s equity-based hedge funds post best returns in three years in March, Blackrock is top performing manager
Opalesque – The Australian Fund Monitor (AFM) released last week its “March Absolute Return and Hedge Fund Review” report which showed that the strong rebound in equity markets both in Australia and overseas saw equity-based hedge funds managed in the […]
