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In the week ending 24 July, 2015, the total global hedge fund industry assets rose to the 11th consecutive quarterly record level in 2Q15 to $2.97tln; Eurekahedge reported that hedge funds raised $93bn in the first six months of 2015; The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for July 2015 measured 2.08%, down from 4.72% in June; BlackRock has won a special new license that will allow it to raise funds in China directly for the first time; assets in ETFs reached $2.971tln at mid-year, higher than hedge funds; Swiss-Asia Financial is on track to more than double the number of funds on its platforms to reach S$2.5bn; and a predicted rise of investment in alternative assets is expected to offer significant opportunities for Guernsey.

Ted Seides is leaving Protege Partners to launch a hedge fund at Credit Suisse Asset; Chris Rokos has hired an economist from Nomura to join the team he’s assembling for his much anticipated hedge fund launch; Frank Yu has started an Asian health-care hedge fund; Marcos Bueno and Aurelia Lamorre-Cargill, announced the launch of Argon Capital an innovative, multi-asset class, commodity-centric investment firm; Edward DeNoble is starting his own hedge fund firm, Frontlight Capital; 78-year-old scientist George Zweig is starting a hedge fund; Apollo Global has teamed up with Ivy Investment Management to offer two new mutual funds; American Beacon has expanded its alternatives product line with American Beacon Ionic Strategic Arbitrage Fund; WisdomTree Investments is starting an ETF that seeks to minimize exposure to export-reliant companies in the U.S.; Nikko Asset Management is launching two UCITS funds to expand its coverage of the EMEA region; and Capital Group is looking to launch its first Asian investor targeted UCITS-compliant fund.

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