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Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 3

Monday, January 24, 2011

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 Antarctica Asset Management (global macro), CedarBridge Capital (from ex Wachovia European Investment Bank head Atul Bajpai), Denjoy Capital Partners (l/s equity fund launched by former Brevan Howard PM Frederic Denjoy) and a multi-strategy FoHFs from Attucks Asset Management.

We learned that Equanum Capital Management will move to Singapore as it starts an India fund (long-biased), Guangzhou Anhuitong Investment Co Ltd announced plans to launch its first hedge fund, and Butterfield Fulcrum is re-launching its managed accounts platform, Altinus. Opalesque spoke with $5m technology led futures fund BlackCat and last but not least, Mark Mobius, chairman of Franklin Templeton's Emerging Markets Group caused a stir this week as he is reported to be considering launching a hedge fund

The UCITS rollouts continue. RWC Partners has scheduled its UCITS III RWC Enhanced ARC (Absolute Rate and Currency) Fund to launch in February 2011, Morgan Stanley launched a new fund (L/S equity) under its Ucits Irish Umbrella to be managed by Indus Capital Partners LLC, and GAM will launch two UCITS III funds for Graham Wainer.

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