SEB AG has added a second single hedge fund to its Master Hedge KAG platform in Germany. The TOMAC Global Hedge MH from investment manager Heyden & Steindl GmbH jo
As the domino effect from the credit crunch continues, it is becoming increasingly clear that many hedge funds will be forced to shut down due to the interplay of shrinking access to lever
For longer than most investors and hedge fund managers care to remember, the chief attraction of Latin America has been the kind of political and economic turbulence and market volatility that prov
Singapore-based alternative asset manager Artradis Fund Management, which currently has more than USD4bn in assets under management, has annouced it will launch the Artradis Asian Converti
Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director. In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment
Baring Asset Management (BAM) has launched the Baring EMEA Absolute Return Fund, its third long/short equity hedge fund. The fund, managed by Marina Akopian, is sp
London-based CF Partners (UK), an environmental finance firm specialising in carbon advisory and trading, is launching a carbon emissions hedge fund strategy. The CF Carbon Fund adopts a relative value and arbitrage-based approach to trading carbon and the correlation of
Steep performance losses and record investor capital redemptions reduced the size of the hedge fund industry by USD210bn in the third quarter, the largest three-month decline in assets sin
SGAM Alternative Investments is on target to reach USD 7 billion in hedge fund assets under management this year, an increase of 70 per cent. Arié Assayag, Global H
Last month hedge funds reported the worst losses since the Morningstar Hedge Fund Index was launched in January 2003, with a decline of 7.87 per cent for the Morningstar 1000 index, more t
