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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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