12 Mar 2008
Hedge fund manager Lionhart to launch hybrid private equity fund
Financial advisory firm Lionhart Advisors Group has announced plans to launch the Lionhart Talon Private Equity Fund, a hybrid private…
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Ernst & Young appoints new partner to Channel Island team
Ernst & Young has appointed Stuart Phillips, who has extensive experience of emerging markets and the real estate sector following a…
CFTC and SEC to co-ordinate review of new derivative products
Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting chairman Walter L.Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting chairman Walter L. Lukken and…
11 Mar 2008
Cape Town's global fund servicing role
One of the fastest-growing areas of the Maitland group is its fund administration division, and in particular its alternative fund services…
Partners Group reports soaring profit growth in 2007
Swiss-based Partners Group, which manages nearly CHF25bn in hedge funds, private equity, real estate and other alternative strategies, has…
Gartmore veteran Edwin Doeg joins SilverStreet Capital
Hedge fund management group SilverStreet Capital has appointed Edwin Doeg, who previously worked for Gartmore Investment Management for 17…
Credit Suisse forms partnership with academics to further hedge fund replication techniques
Credit Suisse has announced the establishment of a research partnership between its beta strategies group and professors William Fung,…
Coast Asset Management adds executives and board members
Coast Asset Management, an independent multistrategy alternative investment firm managing some USD6.7bn in assets for institutional and…
10 Mar 2008
Regulation ushers in new era for fund industry
South Africa's hedge fund industry is about to move from a system largely characterised by self-regulation to one in which managers will be…
Louis Friedman joins P. Schoenfeld Asset Management to head private equity strategy
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management, a multistrategy hedge fund manager with more than USD3bn in assets under management, has recruited Wall…
US financial markets undergoing radical change, says Tabb Group study
The US financial markets are not just in flux but in full-out, no-holds-barred, free-for-all radical change, according to US Equity Market…
Long/short Asia Telecom Fund seeks to tap USD2trn investment universe
Singapore-based Pacific Ocean Capital has launched the Asia Telecom Fund, a long/short equity fund that seeks capital appreciation by using…
EEX and Eurex to launch options on EUA future
The European Energy Exchange and international derivatives exchange Eurex are expanding their co-operation in carbon emissions trading with…
07 Mar 2008
Industry faces education challenge
As South Africa's young but fast-growing hedge fund industry seeks changes in the country's regulatory environment to help it broaden its…
Benchmarking South Africa's hedge funds
How attractive are South African hedge funds as an investment opportunity? And is your fund or fund of funds outperforming or…
