{"id":30721,"date":"2012-08-16T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:24:42","slug":"absolute-return-ranks-biggest-hedge-fund-launches-for-h1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/absolute-return-ranks-biggest-hedge-fund-launches-for-h1-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Return Ranks Biggest Hedge Fund Launches For H1 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-26939\" title=\"hedge fund launch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big.jpg 729w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbia_jan96_big-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; 33 hedge funds raised $10.4 billion in\u00a0the first half of the year, Absolute Return <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutereturn-alpha.com\/Article\/3075528\/Pedigree-holds-no-guarantee-for-new-funds.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0half of the amount\u00a0raised\u00a0in the first half of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Some key points include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Half of the total came from a single launch from Renaissance Technologies, which slashed its fees to 1%\/10% for the occasion. Second biggest was Todd Kantor\u2019s Encompass, followed by\u00a029-year-old wunderkind Jennifer Fan\u2019s\u00a0Arbalet Capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A number of prominent launches from veterans of such firms as Barclays, Goldman, Citadel struggled to raise almost any money beyond what they obtained via seed deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Former FrontPoint Partners stud\u00a0Steve Eisman\u00a0barely broke $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Several big names, including David Greenspan (formerly of Blue Ridge) and Jonathan Lennon (formerly of JAT) are now waiting until 2013 to get off the ground.<\/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; 33 hedge funds raised $10.4 billion in\u00a0the first half of the year, Absolute Return reports,\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0half of the amount\u00a0raised\u00a0in the first half of 2008. Some key points include: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Half of the total came from a single launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721","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=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30722,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions\/30722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}