Bear Stearns was the bearer of more bad news last week. Investors in its High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund shouldn’t have any hope of recovering much of their money.

EDHEC will be presenting the latest findings of its research into alternative betas and hedge fund replication during a seminar on alternative betas and hedge fund replication at the Grand

The Directional Markets Index (DMX) currently heads the list of investable Alternative Investment Indices provided by Alternative-Index Ltd and listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange.

Third Point Offshore Investors Limited, a newly formed Guernsey incorporated and registered, closed-ended investment company, has announced the details of its initial public offering (IPO)

The London-based Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has announced the creation of a new hedge fund industry Investor Steering Committee (ISC).

Standard & Poor’s has selected American Capital Strategies for inclusion in the S&P 500 Index, effective after the close of trading on 6 July.

The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index is up 0.78% in June, according to Oliver Schupp, President of the Credit Suisse Index Co, Inc. The Index is up 8.70% YTD.

Partners Group, the Switzerland-based global alternative asset manager, is continuing to expand its presence in the Asian market with the announcement of a co-operation with Sumitomo Mitsu

Sir David Walker delivered his much-awaited consultative report on the UK private equity market, ‘Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity’, yesterday.

Mark Spinner, corporate partner and Head of Private Equity at Eversheds, the mid market PE specialist law firm, comments on the latest proposals for a code of conduct covering UK PE firms