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Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 6

Monday, February 15, 2010

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: A roundup of the week’s hedge fund launches, closures, index performance, trends, regulatory, legal and financial events pertaining to the alternative investments industry.

Last week, we heard of launches from Nautical (commodity); Income Partners (distressed); Edward Hornstein (L/S equity); SilverWind Securities and Vestra Wealth (L/S equity); CCC Capital (quant); GLG (Japan); new firm Inflection Point; Temasek / Seatown Holdings (hedge fund platform); Atom (Japan event-driven); Man Group (directional); Hylas Capital (event-driven); Orchard Capital (Asia); Turiya Advisors (Asia & Europe); Avenue Capital (distressed debt); SAV (Thai and Asean); Munsun (China); and Edmond de Rothschild AM (EM convertible arb).

The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index was down 0.71% in January, the macro index being the worst performer at -2.16%; Newedge CTA Index was down 1.69%; Hennessee Index declined -0.50%; Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index posted 0.17% (est.); Lyxor Hedge Fund Index recorded -0.42%; and RBC Hedge 250 Index returned -0.18%.

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