As we’ve seen recently, the hedge fund industry is going through hard times and many doubt it will ever return to the glory days when hedge funds were the crème de la crème of Wall Street, says James C Paine
Permal is one of the first fund managers to take advantage of the new Irish Collective Asset management Vehicle or ICAV structure, with plans to use it to bring up to USD4bn of assets onshore. Under the new legislation,
The dissident voice of the outspoken shareholder activist may have grown slightly louder in February, as Event Driven hedge funds led a strong month of hedge fund industry gains, with the HFRI ED: Activist Index posting the strongest monthly gain
DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS has been named Best Offshore Regulatory Advisory Firm 2015 in the annual Hedgeweek Global Awards. DMS was similarly awarded in 2014 in Hedgeweek's Global Awards, and was also recognised as Best Offshore Regulatory Advisory Firm
Natixis Alternative Investments France has launched a new fund on its dedicated managed fund platform – the SIXTINA Harbert Event Opportunities Fund. This compartment of the Natixis Absolute Global SICAV is a Luxembourg-domiciled, UCITS III-compliant fund. The launch expands the
Financial services software and software-enabled services provider SS&C GlobeOp has created a new group to support fund administration, accounting and reporting for hybrid fund structures. The industry continues to witness the convergence of the traditionally separate asset classes of hedge
The global investment team of Centaurus Capital, led by chief investment officer Randy Freeman, is to join the Fortress Investment Group’s liquid markets business. The team, which will be rebranded as the Fortress-Centaurus Global Strategy, will operate out of Fortress’s
Sandell Asset Management has sponsored the launch of Sandell Re, a Bermuda based reinsurance company that can invest in the firm’s global event driven investment strategy. The strategy will be managed in a separately managed account with an investment objective
Members of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable, a non-profit industry organisation committed to promoting ethics and best practices in the alternative investment industry, believe oil prices will remain steady for the rest of 2015. Questions about oil and energy
Guy Hands (pictured), Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, will be the keynote speaker at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015. The Guernsey resident and private equity specialist will top the bill for the annual event,
