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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 Osiris Partners (L/S); HSCA (L/S European equity); Salute Capital (Russia); GAM (Ucits version of absolute return strat); Blair Franklin (global fixed income); Hepta (FX); and Octopus (FoHFs).

Schottenfeld Group opened a new trading platform called Koyote Capital as it moves more into futures; and South African prime broker Peregrine started a cap intro group.

Tudor shut down its global emerging markets hedge fund citing bad relative performance; and Artistic Investment Advisers (AIA) is to liquidate its art hedge fund, the Art Trading Fund this month.

ZHAW reported that the HedgeGate Swiss FoHFs Index was up 0.16% in October, 6.95% YTD; The CASAM CISDM Equal Weighted Hedge Fund Index is down 0.09%, up 21.84% YTD; The Lyxor Global Hedge Fund Index is up 1.05% in November, 4.98% YTD; The RBC Hedge 250 Index returned +1.02% in November, 18.48% YTD; The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up 1.66% in November, 12.77% YTD; The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index confirmed it went up 2.11% and 17.53% YTD; The Scotia Capital Canadian Hedge Fund Index was up 3.24%, 25.95 YTD; The Barclay Index returned 1.48%, +21.6% YTD and said ‘hedge funds appear to be on the way to their best performance since 1999,’ The Barclay CTA index was up 2.18% (est.) and 1.28% YTD; and The Norwegian DnB NOR Global Hedge index returned 0.9%, 10% YTD.

Barclays Capital said that hedge funds had seen $150bn of inflows in the first ......................

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