{"id":29666,"date":"2012-06-25T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29666"},"modified":"2012-06-25T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:50:39","slug":"hedge-fund-launches-at-highest-since-last-quarter-of-2007-news-of-week-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/hedge-fund-launches-at-highest-since-last-quarter-of-2007-news-of-week-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund launches at highest since last quarter of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque &#8211; In the week-ending 22 June 2012, Hedge Fund Research revealed that hedge fund\u00a0launches\u00a0totaled 304 in the first quarter, narrowly eclipsing the 298 launches in 1Q11 for the highest quarterly total since 4Q07; Citigroup\u2019s former head of proprietary trading Sutesh Sharma said he would launch the $500m Portman Square Capital this autumn; former Winton Capital duo Bruce MacDonald and Dr. Patrick McSharry announced the launch of Rudolf Wolff Global Portfolio (long\/short) hedge fund; JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.\u2019s Deepak Gulati held talks with investors for a possible hedge fund launch; Swiss bank UBS and HFR launched four UCITS-compliant hedge fund ETFs; William Michaelcheck\u2019s $4.7bn Mariner Investment Group is starting a pool to invest in new hedge funds; Tony D\u2019Andraia and Justin Meadlin teamed up to launch their maiden hedge fund, the Hyaline Capital Opportunity Fund; and Brevan Howard is seeking capital for a new pool that buys securities tied to mortgages and other debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/642494\/Hedge_fund_launches_at_highest_since_last249.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque &#8211; In the week-ending 22 June 2012, Hedge Fund Research revealed that hedge fund\u00a0launches\u00a0totaled 304 in the first quarter, narrowly eclipsing the 298 launches in 1Q11 for the highest quarterly total since 4Q07; Citigroup\u2019s former head of proprietary trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666","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=29666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}