High-yield bank loan market pioneer Jeffrey W Maillet has launched Noble Asset Management, LLC together with a multi-strategy investment vehicle. Noble will initial

The West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) is to invest GBP 260 million (approx. 5% of its GBP 5 billion assets) over the next 3 to 4 years in five fund of hedge fund managers. The WYPF, one of the largest

The first few weeks of 2005 have seen a number of significant launches of hedge funds focused on Asia. * Gartmore has launched an Asia-Pacific quantitative hedge fu

Allianz Hedge Fund Partners is celebrating three years in business, with the team members’ history of hedge fund investing now extending to over 13 years. Since bei

Anthony Gibsons’s Coronation Global Equity Fund, a USD 600 million long/short fund of hedge funds, generated a return of 13.87% in 2004. The FoHF has produced doubl

The latest report from Hedge Fund Research reveals that the hedge funds sector ended 2004 with nearly USD 1 trillion in assets under management. Growth in 2004 was

Professor Richard Dale has joined ProfitFundCom AG as a senior advisor. Professor  Dales’ appointment follows the announcement in November (see pervious Hedgeweek a

Baring Asset Management’s Baring Directional Global Bond Trust has attracted GBP 100 million from investors since launching on 12 March. To the end of November, the

The Bank of England, the European Central Bank and Germany’s Bundesbank expressed varying opinions this week over HF issues including leverage. The Bank of England

Lyster Watson & Company has unveiled a ranking system that incorporates fund risk, return and strategy performance to identify superior hedge fund managers. By exam