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Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 28
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Last week saw several launches led by GLG which launched a UCITS version of its European long-short equity hedge fund, the GLG European Equity Alternative (long-short equity). We also learned of launches from Nomura proprietary trader Benjamin Fuchs ($400m hedge fund), French asset manager Tikehau Investment Management (3 funds), Altegris (macro fund), and CalPERS will launch a vehicle focused on domestic emerging managers. We also heard that Lyxor Asset Management is considering the launch of a pure Asian quantitative fund.

RAB Capital will set to de-list after agreeing to buyout terms. And, the only closures we heard about last week were due to funds seeing higher asset inflows. Dalton Strategic Partnership has hard closed its $600m European Absolute Return Fund, and......................

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