Boston-based Affiliated Managers Group, Inc, a diversified asset management company, has acquired an equity interest in BlueMountain Capital Management, the USD 4.8 billion (AuM) credit al

Alternative asset manager GLG Partners has announced that it has accepted the resignation of star portfolio manager Greg Coffey, following apparently fruitless attempts to persuade him to

Pallas Global has launched a real estate investment and advisory firm in New York City. This full-service investment and advisory firm serves real estate developers by providing financing from Pallas’ proprietary network of hedge funds, family offices and high net

Partners Group, the Switzerland-based global alternative asset manager, has collaborated with Jana Investment Advisers, one of the leading investment consulting firms in Australia, in the

Although not a new structure, the increased use of investor-level gates to revise liquidity terms and improve liquidity profiles is a positive credit development that improves overall hedge fund asset-liability management, says Moody’s Investors Service. Embraced over the last few

Standard & Poor’s is extending its range of risk control indices with the launch of two risk control index series.  The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Daily Risk Control Index Series and the S&P Nordic LargeCap Daily Risk Control Index Series

The UK media on Sunday were agog with the news that the Conservative Party, which is widely expected to regain power at the next general election, has taken large donations from hedge fund man

Steven Harmelin, the receiver for Philadelphia Alternative Asset Fund and related entities, has reached an agreement with MF Global to settle litigation brought by the receiver against MF

With the exception of a stable CTA Global strategy and a profitable Fixed Income Arbitrage strategy, all the major hedge fund strategies in the EDHEC-Risk Alternative Indexes finally registered losses after a first quarter of positive but waning performances. The