By Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: A roundup of last week’s hedge fund launches, closures, index performance, trends, regulatory, legal and financial events pertaining to the alternative investments world. Last week, we heard of fund launches from Northern Pines Capital; HAN (China equity L/S arb); Carlson (residential MBS); RWC Partners (U.S. equity L/S); Polygon (equity + convertible bond); Consilium (corporate recovery); Lumix (LatAm agriculture); APAC (energy, metals); ERAAM (Europe FoHFs); Fortitude (Australian Equity); GLG Partners (Europe debt); Absolute Return Partners (power); 3A (Ucits FoFs); SilkInvest (frontier markets Ucits); Evolution Capital (US, relative-value); Rotella (systematic); RCM (UCITS equity + FoHFs); Touchstone; Milestone (New Zealand); and Triskele (convertible bond). GAM closed down several funds as manager Ross Hollyman and team are moving to Liontrust. Swiss firm EIM was the latest to demand independent valuations from its underlying hedge funds; Man Group plc reported sales of $5.7bn for the last six months; Smith & Williamson re-launched its Enterprise hedge fund as Ucits III vehicle; Dexion Alpha Strategies re-launched as Dexion Commodities; Bloomberg reported that Geneva's FoHFs funds...................... To view our full article Click here |
Alternative Market Briefing Weekly
Friday, October 02, 2009
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