Private equity fundraising in the first three months of 2009 dropped to its lowest level in more than five years – news that will be a surprise to few – while the number of buyout firms sc

Credit Suisse Liquid Alternatives, Alpha Strategies, has released a report exploring how the global macro hedge fund strategy has performed through market dislocations.

Greg Coffey, GLG Partners’ star emerging markets fund manager, has walked away from a handsome fortune in share options and other bonus payments to start his own business.

Investors pulled back on investing in hedge funds in the volatile first quarter of this year with a net inflow of just USD16.5bn in new capital coming into the industry, according to Chica

Goldilocks, the Swiss-run hybrid gold and currency fund is opening to investors on a continual basis following strong gains through 2011 with returns of +9.66% year-to-date (and +11.01% in the past 12 months) to end-October. The fund was originally “closed

In the first half of the year, ALTIN – the USD270m multi-strategy fund of hedge funds listed in the London and Swiss stock exchanges – was able to protect its investors’ portfolios, according to the firm’s performance figures for the

Zurich-based fund of hedge funds manager Systematic Absolute Return is conducting a survey of the environmental alternative investment universe, an area that the firm says is generating ex

BarclayHedge and Global Fund Technologies have launched MyFundFinder.com, a capital introduction platform designed to match up hedge fund managers with institutional and high net worth inv

MW Tops, the Guernsey-domiciled closed-ended fund of hedge funds that epitomised the boom in listed hedge fund products when it raised EUR1.5bn at its listing on Euronext Amsterdam in Dece

ALTIN AG, the Swiss alternative investment company, finished the year down 7.52%, but thanks to its active management style, performed better than the HFRX index, which fell by 8.87%. 2011 was a year of significant market and liquidity risk. In