In the week-ending February 10, 2012, it was reported that former TCI and Citadel duo Masroor Siddiqui and Bruce Emery had teamed up to launch their own global long/short equity fund on May 1; Reyl Asset Management launched two new UCITS IV compliant long/short funds; Merchant House said it

In the week-ending February 10, 2012, it was reported that Sal Naro, former co-managing partner of Sailfish Capital, would launch a new hedge fund firm to be called Coherence Capital Partners; Michael Hintze’s CQS will start a new hedge fund that will trade in mortgage-backed securities; Barc

In the week-ending February 3, 2012, it was reported that Deutsche Bank is preparing to launch a fund to snap up investors’ illiquid of damaged holdings in hedge funds; London-based Ruby Capital Partners

In the week-ending 27th January, 2012, it was reported that several high profile hedge fund managers are rushing to launch their own funds this year; that distressed debt investor Avenue Capital had raised $2bn for the launch of its second Europe-focused fund; advisory and FoHFs manager Herme

In the week-ending 20th January, 2012, it was reported that Hedge Fund Securities wants to raise $78m by March 2013 by offering hedge funds launched by Epic Partners Investment Co.; Merchant House Group launched the Merchant Astor Long/Short UCITS Fund that will run on its independent UCITS u

Stenham Asset Management launched a new global macro fund of hedge funds called Stenham Helix; La Française AM took a minority stake in spin-off Swell Asset Management, which will

2012 was greeted with new launches as Arrowhawk Capital Partners’ Jennifer Fan announced she would start the Arbalet Capital LLC on April 1 with at least $500m; CBRE Clarion Securities announced the launch of the CBRE Clarion Long/Short Fund; former FrontPoint portfolio manager John Foo is to

Not surprisingly, there were few announcements of launches during the last week of the year. Eagle's View Capital Partners is planning to launch an offshore fund of funds on February 1; Pe