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Funds of funds and alternative investment funds are helping to drive growth in the Isle of Man’s collective funds industry, which has seen an increase in the number of fund
A November 1 private letter ruling by the United States Internal Revenue Service (the IRS) may limit the use of insurance contracts to invest in hedge funds and other privat
David Thompson, previously Director on the UK and European Sales team at Credit Suisse First Boston, has joined Gartmore as Investment Manager in London.
Standard & Poor’s, the financial research, ratings and indices group, has launched the S&P Hedge Fund Index and three style sub-indices.
The S&P Hedge Fund Index comprises 40 funds representing nine distinct hedge fund investment strategies grouped into three broad style categories-Arbitrage, Event-Driven and Directional/Tactical.
S&P said its Hedge Fund Index "is designed to be investable and representative of the broad-based investment experience of the hedge fund marketplace. The index is equal weighted to ensure well-rounded representation of hedge fund investment approaches and to avoid over-representation of strategies that are in favor at the time".
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Typhoon Investment Management is preparing to launch the Typhoon Japan Fund in January 2003.
The BVI domiciled fund’s strategy is based
London-based Beauchamp Financial Technology (BFT), this week launched OrderManager, its software programme for fund managers.
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Darren Lauber has joined the London office of Key Asset Management as a Research Analyst.
Mr Lauber was previously a hedge fund researc
Hedge Fund Research, Inc (HFR), the Chicago-based source of hedge fund information and performance data has released its Industry Report for Q3 2002 showing the total size o
HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL) has appointed Vincent Bourgeois and Michael O’Mara to jointly manage a new European equity market neutral fund, which will be lau
