Investing in Hedge Funds

Hedge funds need to sell off a further USD200bn in assets to meet their objectives on deleveraging, according to a survey by US research firm Sanford C. »

Connecticut-based Wood Creek Index Company has launched the Alternative Alternatives Investment Index, which aims to capture the performance of investment managers active in investments ou »

The acceleration of the global financial and economic crises in October contributed to continuing losses in the hedge fund industry, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index falling nea »

Lloyds TSB has announced that it is investing GBP300-400m in the Julius Baer Absolute Return Bond Fund. »

Assets invested in hedge funds focusing on Asia fell sharply in the third quarter as a combination of performance-based losses and investor withdrawals affected funds across all areas of t »

Despite all the complaints from politicians about hedge funds and the negative press coverage they have been receiving over the past few months, they are set to play a greater role in many »

The Alternative Investment Management Association has published the Roadmap to Hedge Funds, which it says is the world's first collaborative educational guide for institutional hedge fund »

Many aspects of the hedge fund operational model as it has existed over the past few years will have to be rethought in the wake of the industry's setbacks over the past year and a half, a »

Cayman Islands-based fund management group Managing Partners, which specialises in managing portfolios of traded life policies, is offering a 3 per cent extra allocation on all new investm »

Gottex Fund Management Holdings, an independent alternative asset management group, has announced that its assets under management declined by 13.6 per cent in the third quarter, from USD1 »