Amid the vigorous growth of the global private equity industry over the past few years, one of the most striking developments is the emergence of private equity as a significant asset class in the

Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital made roughly 50 per cent of its 2007 returns by shorting financial stocks, but the firm expects the sector to reverse course this year.

Hedgebay Trading’s February index has revealed the first trade above NAV on the hedge fund secondary market in almost two years. The premium trade, which took place at 102 per cent of the hedge fund share’s value, is the clearest

IGEFI, a provider of multi-jurisdictional, single-platform fund administration software, has rebranded as Multifonds. Oded Weiss, chief executive, says: "Multifonds is the name of our core product and is the name that our customers are most familiar with. As we continue

New Forests, an investment management firm specialising in timberland and associated eco products, has closed the largest timberland fund in Australia this year on the back of major restructuring of forestry investment in the region in 2010.  New Forests’ AUD500m

Headlines about the ongoing crisis in financial markets have been difficult to ignore and problems at specific hedge funds have formed part of the unfolding story.

Luxembourg-based European Fund Administration has acquired a 34% stake in the Italian fund services provider Servizi and will become the majority shareholder during 2009, subject to app

Not much more than a year ago, private equity players dominated the front pages, until the credit crunch began and the leverage fuelling the buyout industry to a large extent dried up.

Emerging markets hedge funds experienced a net withdrawal of USD1.5bn in the second quarter of 2010, according to figures released by Hedge Fund Research, a provider of hedge fund industry data.  This represents the second consecutive quarter, and the seventh