Forward Management has launched the Forward Endurance Fund (FENIX), an equity mutual fund that seeks growth and positive absolute returns by investing both long and short in companies affected by disruptive technologies. The fund invests with a strategy similar to
The Dutch Ministries of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and Economic Affairs intend to auction four million EU emission allowances on Climex in two consecutive auctions, which are scheduled for 14 October and 18 November 2010. In the same
Franklin Square Capital Partners has launched the FS Global Credit Opportunities Fund, an unlisted closed-end fund that invests primarily in global credit. The fund seeks to generate an attractive total return, while also focusing on capital preservation, by investing in
Insparo Asset Management, the frontier markets investment specialist, has appointed Throgmorton UK, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and professional service providers to the hedge fund, private equity and corporate finance industries, to deliver a range of accountancy and back
The structure of the hedge fund business is now more at risk of declining if performance is not sustained, a report by Lipper says. This is especially true for the so-called lower-tier firms below USD250m in assets that have significant
The political games have begun. Just a day after Barack Obama named Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Moody Aldrich Partners, a privately held investment firm in Boston, has reached an agreement with Wilshire Funds Management, a business unit of Wilshire Associates, to assist in the development of its open architecture hedge fund seeding platform called MAP Harvest
Tim Levy, chief executive of GBP6bn alternative investment firm Future Capital Partners, is about to embark on a expedition led by Bear Grylls through the Northwest Passage. Future Capital’s investment partnership Future Fuels, which will fund the construction of a
The ongoing market volatility has copper-fastened the hedge funds’ outlook towards power and energy stocks, which seems to be in the positive.
BGC Partners, an intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, has completed the acquisition of various assets and businesses of Mint Partners and Mint Equities through BGC Brokers. Over 100 brokers from Mint’s international business will join BGC. Mint will conduct
