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

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

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

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

Fairfield Straits Lion Asset Management Limited (FSL) has added Australian exposure to its offerings with the launch of a new absolute return hedge fund. The Fairf

The Reserve Funds’ Reserve Yield Plus Fund has received both a AAAf rating from S&P, and a Short-Term Fund credit rating of Aaa from Moody’s. In addition, the Fund

A group of New Zealand-based alternative asset managers is hoping to see the country develop as a destination of choice for hedge funds. In a bid to raise industry