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MAXAM Capital Management has appointed Harvey Goldsmith as a senior VP and a senior member of the firm’s research team, specializing in
New York-based Glocap Partners LLC has appointed Sonny Jose as sales and marketing consultant.
Jose has extensive experience in the offshore hedge fund and FoHF markets, having held senior positions with Trimark and Canadian and International Hedge Funds since 1993. Based in Toronto, he will contribute to the international development of Glocap Partners’ marketing and business development initiatives including the Belstar Fund project.
Background notes: Glocap Partners LLC is a privately held financial services firm, broker dealer and registered investment advisor, focused on the placement of funds and the development of alternative investment products for the institutional investor, providing comprehensive
GLG Partners is taking on two new fund managers to strengthen the teams on its Market Neutral and Long Only Convertible funds.
Basis Capital’s Yield Alpha Fund delivered a 20.13 per cent net US dollar total yield return for the 24 months to 1 December 2005.<
Diapason Commodities Management has appointed Frederic Hervouet as Global Head of Sales.
Surrey based Multi-Strategy Fund Manager DE Capital plans to roll out its first single strategy fund in March 2006, a Japanese Long/Shor
Stamford, Connecticut-based TQA Investors, LLC, launched a multi-strategy offering as of 1 January 2006, with USD 165 million under mana
F&C Alternative Investments has closed its F&C Amethyst Fund, which was launched in January 2003, to new investors.
Lion Fairfield Capital Management Limited has launched the Fairfield Falcon Pacific Japan Equity Fund Ltd.
The fund, which will take long and short position in listed Japanese equities, is an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands, and is the sixth single manager hedge fund launched by Lion Fairfield — a joint venture between Lion Capital Management Limited and Fairfield Greenwich Group (FGG) — over the last six months.
Fairfield Falcon will receive an allocation from Lion Fairfield’s flagship Asia-focused multi- strategy, multi-manager fund, Fairfield Lion Investment Fund (Asia) Ltd. Lion Fairfield will serve as the Investment
Alpha Equity Management LLC has renamed two of its international funds to reflect its new ‘Copernicus’ distribution partnership ag
