{"id":26643,"date":"2011-12-29T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26643"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:50:25","slug":"us-investor-acquires-2-4-billion-uk-hedge-fund-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2011\/us-investor-acquires-2-4-billion-uk-hedge-fund-group.html","title":{"rendered":"US Investor Acquires $2.4 Billion UK Hedge Fund Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/item_2398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26644\" title=\"item_2398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/item_2398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; $351.7 billion US investment manager,\u00a0Federated Investors, Inc., is acquiring Prime Rate Capital Management from UK hedge fund Matrix Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Rate Capital Management&#8217;s family of UCITS hedge funds include: Prime Rate Sterling Liquidity Fund, Prime Rate Euro Liquidity Fund and Prime Rate\u00a0US Dollar Liquidity Fund. Together the funds are estimated to be worth approximately\u00a0GBP 1.5 billion\u00a0($2.4 billion.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agreement will incorporate Prime Rate Capital&#8217;s experienced team, insightful processes and excellence in liquidity management into Federated&#8217;s money market business \u2013 with euro, sterling and dollar-denominated UCITS products positioning us for future growth,&#8221; said\u00a0Gordon J. Ceresino, president of Federated International Management Limited. &#8220;After adding an additional sales person in our\u00a0Frankfurtoffice earlier this year, Federated continues to seek opportunities to expand our global business in\u00a0Europeand around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0$189 billion\u00a0in AAA-rated money market funds, Federated is the second-largest U.S. manager of money funds of the highest credit quality. Federated has 12% of the U.S. market share of AAA-rated money market funds, according to iMoneyNet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We opted to join Federated because of the company&#8217;s reputation as a premier global liquidity manager since the 1970s,&#8221; said\u00a0Dennis Gepp, managing director and chief investment officer of Prime Rate Capital.\u00a0 &#8220;Our clients and shareholders in the funds can be confident in Federated&#8217;s stewardship and credit process, as it is one of the world&#8217;s largest and most experienced managers of money market products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; $351.7 billion US investment manager,\u00a0Federated Investors, Inc., is acquiring Prime Rate Capital Management from UK hedge fund Matrix Group Limited. Prime Rate Capital Management&#8217;s family of UCITS hedge funds include: Prime Rate Sterling Liquidity Fund, Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activist-funds","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26643"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26647,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643\/revisions\/26647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}