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Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 39
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Sparx Group, Asia’s second- largest hedge fund, is launching a fund that will invest in building hotels in Japan’s earthquake-devastated areas; Universa Investments is seeking $1bn for a new macro fund that will capitalize on mispriced options; GAM launched an Asia-focused Ucits fund; and Lyxor A.M. and Old Mutual launched their first single hedge fund manager on Lyxo’rs UCITS platform.

Absolute return UCITS funds’ assets reached $116bn, with 58 new funds in H1; Aberdeen Asset Management’s asset base slipped 4.8% in the last two months; Man Group’s FuM fell by around 8.45% (to $65bn) in Q2 but its overall hedge fund performance was positive; and following news of Man’s loss of ass......................

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