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The Children’s Investment Master Fund - July 2008
The Children’s Investment Master Fund is a long-biased, value, opportunistic fund that looks for businesses in three situations: under-researched and undervalued; those waiting for a catalystan event to happen or those where there is a belief activism…
SilverStreet Captial - May 2007
SilverStreet Capital is looking to launch a pooled global funds of hedge funds product in summer, following on from the launch of its managed account service to institutional investors earlier in April.
RP Explorer Fund - July 2008
The RP Explorer Fund is a multi-product, multi-asset class, emerging markets fund investing in private, pre-IPO opportunities in the EEMEA region.
Prosperity Quest Fund - July 2008
The Prosperity Quest Fund focuses on investment opportunities in Russia, with a bias towards small and medium capitalised companies.
MPC Investors - June 2007
London’s MPC Investors is looking at taking in at least an extra $600 million for its latest European fund launch and is setting itself up as a direct destination for institutional allocators.
Merrill Lynch - September 2006
Merrill Lynch’s prime brokerage offering has been busy rolling out new products – and team members – in 2006.Innovation and adaptation have been at the heart of the Merrill Lynch meritocracy for quite some time.
Marco Polo Pure Asset Management - August 2008
Until the end of 2003, the domestic equity market in China was completely closed to foreign investment, according to Aaron Boesky, CEO of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management.
Lionhart Aurora Fund SPC - July 2008
Lionhart Aurora Fund SPC Ltd contains two funds open to investment and these funds can take highly concentrated positions.
Libra Europe Fund - May 2006
The Libra Europe Fund was launched in 2001. Founding partner Bruce Mee began Eton Park and other hedge funds have backed Paternoster in what is becoming a highly competitive UK pension buy-out marketplace.
Libra Europe Fund - April 2008
The Libra Europe Fund was launched in 2001. Founding partner Bruce Mee began the fund with his business partner Roberto Bogon.
Lehman Brothers - January 2008
Gunner Burkhart does not hesitate when asked what a hedge fund should look for when faced with a potentially confusing array of prime brokers, all trying to differentiate themselves.
Kilkenny Capital Management - December 2006
Kilkenny Capital Management has been making healthy returns out of the biotechnology sector for more than a decade.
HSBC Republic’s GH Fund - June 2006
GH Fund’s managers and investors have not suffered from the law of diminishing returns as HSBC Republic’s GH Fund has grown to $1.3 billion.
Highway Insurance pension fund - May 2006
Most hedge funds are delighted to announce 5%-10% pension allocations. Schroders, on the other hand, won Highway Insurance’s full pension pot.
Global Maritime Investments - September 2007
M2M has made quite a splash in its first year with its Global Maritime Investments shipping hedge fund, making 31% and raising $111m in barely 10 months.
GAM Frontier Opportunities Equity Hedge (USD) - July 2008
GAM Frontier Opportunities Equity Hedge aims to deliver capital appreciation by investing in companies listed in the frontier emerging markets or those with significant exposures to the frontier economies. The fund invests primarily (80%-100%) in the…
Frontier Capital Management - February 2008
Frontier Capital Management’s Michael Azlen is not just a self-confessed alpha sceptic, he is also a sceptic armed with a plethora of statistics to support his stance on why the majority of managers in traditional asset classes do not provide alpha and…
FRM Credit Alpha - December 2007
FRM launched into the permanent capital sphere with an in-house product, FRM Credit Alpha, in April, a month which may to some sound a somewhat ominous time to have raised capital for a credit strategy.
Fitzwilliam Commodity Plus Fund - July 2008
BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management believes it has a forward-thinking approach. This is displayed in its compelling macro and micro case for allocating to commodities via a diversified fund of hedge fund (FoHF) format.
Financial Risk Management - December 2007
Financial Risk Management’s Blaine Tomlinson has been ahead of the curve in hedge funds for almost as long as the curve itself has existed.
Ermitage - September 2007
Jersey’s Ermitage has made a name for itself investing in leading managers, finding and mixing them to avoid the worst of market downturns goes far further than a good contact book.
EnTrust Capital - May 2007
ENtrust Capital’s equities fund has been turning a profit for over eight years by sticking to what it knows best.
Copernico Latin American Strategic Fund - October 2006
Copernico is among South America’s better-known hedge funds.
City Capital Corporation - April 2007
3C has an interesting range of funds and is launching into another based on options and futures trading, so bringing its investors returns from private equity through to a Japanese product focused on the China growth story.