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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 fund launches from Bedrock (Brazil multi-strat FoHFs); Aegon (UK Equity Absolute Return); Cheyne (UCITS M&A); Cowen Group (managed accounts fund); CastleBay, (Asia L/S equity); Black's Link Capital (Asia); Merchant Capital (Euro L/S equity Ucits); Toscafund (mid-cap Ucits); Aladdin (two distressed credit funds); Castlestone (Ucits of actively managed portfolio); Cape One (offshore version of PIPE fund); GoldVest (alternative investment and goodwill fund); Aviva (UK absolute return); Old Mutual (UK absolute return Ucits); and three China hedge funds from Jingliang, Heju and Longwin.

London-based Nevsky Capital shut down its $3.3bn hedge fund after the managers left.

The Parker FX Index reported a -0.30% return for the month of January; the Nordic Hedge Fund index rose 0.29%; the Australian Fund Monitors (AFM) index recorded a loss of 1.43%; Greenwich Alternative Investments launched seven new investable hedge fund indices; the Credit Suisse L/S Equity Replication Index was down 1.27% in February, the Inverse L/S Equity Replication Index +1.06%, the Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (LA......................

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