Tag Archives: redemptions
Lansdowne halts investments in fund
Reuters UK – Lansdowne Partners, one of the country’s largest hedge fund managers, has stopped accepting investments in its flagship fund with several other big funds set to follow suit, according to the Financial Times. It said the 4.9 million […]
Hedge Fund Inflows Reach $19.2 Billion In June
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge funds attracted $19 billion of fresh capital (gross) in June, marking their second consecutive month of net inflows of $6 billion. Nearly 75% of all reporting hedge funds are in the black for H12009, […]
UPDATE 2-Gottex AuM down 4.6 pct in Q2, sees better H2
Reuters – Gottex Fund Management Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday assets under management slipped 4.6 percent to $8.1 billion in the second quarter, denting its shares, but it saw some positive signs for the second half. The fund of hedge […]
1H 2009 Hedge Fund Update: Halfway There – Report
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Six months after their worst drawdown on record, hedge funds appear to be demonstrating stronger performance than in some previous recovery periods, such as during the Asian Currency Crisis and the Tech Bubble Burst events. […]
Goldman CFO sees end to hedge fund redemption wave
Khaleej Times – Hedge fund assets may be on the rebound after a year of massive redemptions, Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Financial Officer David Viniar told analysts on Tuesday, although the prime brokerage business will remain under pressure. “Assuming […]
ALTIN Hedge Fund Group Goes For Full Disclosure
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – ALTIN, the London and Swiss-listed fund of hedge funds, has released a full disclosure of its underlying investments and weightings. ALTIN has adopted a position of total transparency, and holds one of the world’s longest […]
Man Group Advances as Pace of Redemptions by Investors Declines
Bloomberg – Man Group Plc, the largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, rose as much as 4.5 percent in London trading after redemptions by institutional investors slowed. Pension plans, endowments and money managers pulled $1.8 billion on July 1, half the […]
Investors eye safer funds, firms must adjust-survey
CNN Money – Money managers must offer new portfolios and keep cutting costs to survive in an era where frightened investors prefer safer fixed-income funds to stock and hedge funds, a report released Monday showed. Badly bruised by last year’s […]
BlueCrest to shut asset-based lending fund
British asset manager Blue Crest is winding down its Specialty Asset Finance Fund after losses and redemptions forced the fund to close many positions at a heavy loss, sources familiar with the fund told Reuters. BlueCrest declined to comment on […]
Hedge fund firm GLG says industry flows stabilised
MONACO, June 17 (Reuters) – Investor flows out of the hedge fund industry have stabilised and the health of the industry has improved, GLG senior managing director Pierre Lagrange told Reuters on Wednesday. ‘Industry-wide they (flows) have stabilised,’ Lagrange said […]
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 […]
