Fri, Nov 6, 2026
A A A
Welcome Guest
Free Trial RSS pod
Get FREE trial access to our award winning publications
Alternative Market Briefing

Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 52

Monday, January 03, 2011

Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: A roundup of the week's hedge fund launches, closures, index performance, trends, regulatory, legal and financial events pertaining to the alternative investments industry - up to 30th December, 2010.

The average hedge fund was up 6.12% for the year through Nov. 30, according to Morningstar - the second-worst showing since the fund tracker began measuring performance in 2003, reported Barron's; and Credit Suisse noted in a report this month that inflows into hedge funds had been "somewhat slower", which could have been caused by the insider trading investigations.

Within the hedge fund world, the Dexion Commodities board reportedly put forward proposals for the company to wind down; Crispin Odey raked in £36.4m in 2010 thanks to a barnstorming year for his investment firm, said The Daily Mail, and traders shared the rest of the £84m profit pot; Farallon Capital received a rash of redemption requests from institutional investors for its multi-strategy flagship this fall even as it raised $750m for a new Asia-focused special situations fund, said PIonline.com; the hard closure of Oceanic Hedge Fund Limited was lifted; Larry Seidman took a 5.57% stake in bank Colonial Financial Services; Sloane Robinson and Deutsche Bank are planning a Asia-focused UCITS fund on the DB Platinum platform; French bank BNP Paribas froze two FoHFs worth around €236m ($309.5m) for technical reasons after entrusting them to anoth......................

To view our full article Click here

Previous Opalesque Exclusives                                  
Previous Other Voices                                               
Access Alternative Market Briefing

 



  • Top Forwarded
  • Top Tracked
  • Top Searched
  1. Opalesque Exclusive: DACH institutions push alternatives to 32.3% of portfolios as hedge funds make a comeback[more]

    Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Institutional investors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland now hold almost a third of their portfolios in alternative investments, and they are more confident than ever in

  2. KRX chief courts CalPERS for bigger bet on Korea[more]

    Korea Exchange Chairman and CEO Jeong Eun-bo held talks with California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS, to promote greater investment in South Korea's capital markets, the bourse operator announced Wednesday. Jeong met with CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Stephen Gilmore.

  3. 755 Unicorns, $8 Trillion: Fifth Era maps the autonomous digital economy[more]

    Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Fifth Era Partners, a specialized asset manager focused on the convergence of Internet, AI/Agentic and Blockchain technologies, has released the findings of its 13th Bia

  4. Opalesque Exclusive: "Enough beta plays" - how Fasanara builds an alpha-only multi-strategy platform[more]

    Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Most multi-strategy funds promise diversification. Fewer can explain why their return streams should stay independent when markets turn. In an Opalesque SkillsLab investor

  5. Opalesque Exclusive: Governance, Scale, and Boutique Resilience in a Consolidating Hedge Fund Industry[more]

    Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: The hedge fund industry has undergone significant consolidation in recent years, with capital increasingly concentrated among large multi-strategy platforms. Yet boutique m