Tag Archives: good-managers


Hong Kong Hedge Fund Triples Investor Relation Technology

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager PMA has chosen to more than triple the number of users of PerTrac CMS in the company’s Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London, and Dubai offices. PerTrac CMS is an alternative […]

Hedge fund pushes Yahoo to sell search unit

San Francisco Chronicle – A major investor called on Yahoo Inc. to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday, adding to the pressure on the Sunnyvale Web portal to restart talks with its rival. Meanwhile, Yahoo agreed to […]

Paamco recruits KBC Alpha pan-Asian fund of hedge funds team

Hedge Week.com – Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, an Irvine, California-based fund of hedge funds manager with USD9bn in assets has announced the recruitment of the investment team of KBC Alpha Asset Management, a USD700 million Asia-focused fund of hedge […]

Hedge funds using technicals tipped for 2009-2010

Reuters – Hedge funds using technical indicators are likely to fare better in the next two years than those purely basing their strategy on economic fundamentals, a survey of around 200 investors showed on Wednesday. The survey of asset managers, […]

Legg Mason unit eyes distressed sales: report

Tehran Times – Permal Investment Management, the hedge fund investment division of U.S. asset manager Legg Mason Inc, is aiming to raise up to $500 million to take advantage of a boom in distressed sales of hedge fund holdings, the […]

Goodwood adds to hedge fund red ink

Globe and Mail – Goodwood Inc., a value-oriented manager, briefed investors Thursday on a dismal September. There’s a lot of these letters going out from hedge fund managers. Goodwood’s funds were down 16 per cent last month, bringing the year-to-date […]

Hedge Fund Platform Launch By Luxemborg Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – AA platform for asset managers and advisers to create SICAV SIF funds in Luxembourg has been launched by KMG SICAV SIF. The platform caters to all asset classes, including hedge funds. There are no restrictions […]

Who Charges More – Mutual Funds or Hedge Funds?

Seeking Alpha – Pop Quiz: Which are more expensive, hedge funds or mutual funds?  Sounds like a pretty dumb question, right?  Well as regular readers will know, this question is actually central to our views here at AAA.  Over two […]

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 […]

Money manager Keeley takes stake in Pzena

BOSTON (Reuters) – Keeley Asset Management, which made its name by selecting small and forgotten companies, said on Wednesday that it took an 18 percent stake in beleaguered money manager Pzena Investment Management. Keeley now owns 1.09 million Pzena shares, […]

Wittenham launches hedge fund for frontier markets

Reuters- Singapore’s Wittenham Investment Management launched a fund of hedge funds to invest in frontier capital markets such as Africa, Middle East and countries in the former Soviet Union. The MENA Plus fund would start with a minimum $7 million […]

Isle of Man hedge fund wins prestigious award

Isle of Man Today- An Isle of Man hedge fund has won a prestigious industry award on the third occasion it was shortlisted. Oceanic Hedge Fund was named Best Energy Hedge Fund on a Risk Adjusted Basis at the eighth […]