{"id":10662,"date":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"opalesque-exclusive-review-of-hedge-fund-launches-closures-indices-trends-regulatory-and-legal-events-week-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/opalesque-exclusive-review-of-hedge-fund-launches-closures-indices-trends-regulatory-and-legal-events-week-21.html","title":{"rendered":"Opalesque Exclusive: Review of hedge fund launches, closures, indices, trends, regulatory and legal events &#8211; week 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Opalesque &#8211; Last week, we heard of fund launches from Galena (energy); Verulam (commodity); Twin Tree; Paulson &amp; Co (distressed property); Abax (Asia macro); Odey (Ucits III); Pictet (agriculture); and Liontrust (European). <\/p>\n<p>  The Canadian Hedge Watch Hedge Fund Composite Index was up 2.26% in April (+4.66% YTD);  RBC Hedge 250 Index 2.37%, 2.6% YTD;  Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index 3.4% (est.), 3.11% YTD; Lyxor&rsquo;s investable Global Hedge Fund index -0.45%, 0.93% YTD; Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index 3.49%, 3.91% YTD; Scotia Capital Canadian Hedge Fund Index -0.61%, 4.98% YTD; And the Eurekahedge April report showed hedge funds were up 3.9% YTD, and that the industry assets were now at $1.30tn. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/52308\/Review_of_hedge_fund_launches_closures_indices308.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque &#8211; Last week, we heard of fund launches from Galena (energy); Verulam (commodity); Twin Tree; Paulson &amp; Co (distressed property); Abax (Asia macro); Odey (Ucits III); Pictet (agriculture); and Liontrust (European). The Canadian Hedge Watch Hedge Fund Composite Index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12174,3180,816,12172,2049,11602,8535,8136,11708,73,7104,12170,2107,12173,4741,11183,3025,561,12171,4537],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-april-4","tag-commodity","tag-composite-index","tag-distressed-property","tag-eurekahedge","tag-galena","tag-global-hedge-fund","tag-greenwich","tag-hedge-funds","tag-hedge-fund-index","tag-launches","tag-liontrust","tag-morningstar","tag-pictet","tag-rbc","tag-rsquo","tag-scotia-capital","tag-ucits-iii","tag-verulam","tag-ytd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}