Archive for the ‘Hedge Fund News’ Category

Hedge Fund Service Provider Says Bigger is Better

dms Management Ltd. Article ‘Fund governance: size matters’ Featured in Hedge Fund Manager Week, Cayman Report 2009
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — dms Management Ltd. (dms), the largest management firm in the Cayman Islands focused on serving the hedge fund industry, recently penned an article, “Fund governance: size matters”, for the financial industry [...]

Hedge Fund Administrator Adds New Salesperson

Butterfield Fulcrum names Andrew Smith head of global sales
LONDON, NEW YORK – 22 April 2009 – Butterfield Fulcrum, a leading independent administrator for the alternative investment industry, today announced the appointment of industry veteran T. Andrew Smith as the firm’s global head of business development and marketing.
Mr. Smith brings extensive experience in fund services and [...]

Hedge Funds Get Dedicated Reporter

Dow Jones Newswires Adds Hedge Fund Manager and Financial Services Expert to Editorial Team

NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ — Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS) (NASDAQ: NWSA) (ASX: NWS) (ASX: NWSLV) , today announced two new editorial hires in the London and New York newsrooms of Dow Jones Newswires. Paul Sharma, [...]

Top 10 Hedge Fund Managers

Recently Alpha magazine profiled the hedge fund industry’s top managers.  Below are a list of the the Top 10 hedge fund managers.
Rank  Firm                 Total Capital ($ millions)
1    Bridgewater Associates 38,600
2    JPMorgan Asset Management          32,893
3    Paulson & Co.                29,000
4    D.E. Shaw & Co.               28,600
5    Brevan Howard Asset Management       26,840
6    Man Investments               24,400
7    Och-Ziff Capital Management Group      [...]

Hedge Fund Ratings Coming to Hedgefund.net

S&P Fund Services Launches Its Fund of Hedge Fund Ratings and Research Into the US Via a Partnership with HedgeFund.net,
Partnership allows US investors greater access to deep research and ratings on funds of hedge funds
NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has announced that its Fund of Hedge Funds ratings and [...]

Morgan Stanley Hedge Fund Launch

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners Raises $1.14 Billion for Private Markets Fund IV
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) today announced that Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) raised $1.14 billion in commitments for Morgan Stanley Private Markets Fund IV (“Private Markets Fund IV”), a private equity fund of funds. The [...]

Popular Hedge Fund Video

Brian Black of Lamb Partners Discusses Hedge Funds
This is an interesting video I just found discussing hedge funds in general and specifically whether there is a hedge fund bubble.  This video was from late in 2006 and focuses on Brian Black’s assessment of hedge funds.  With regard to start up hedge funds Mr. Black, the [...]

D.E. Shaw Paid Summers over $5 million in last year

A variety of groups are discussing the fees paid to Lawrence Summers by hedge fund manager D.E. Shaw & Co.  The various reports state that D.E. Shaw paid Summers over $5 million in compensation in 2008.  Other companies in the financial industry such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch paid [...]

Porn Hedge Fund a Fraud?

FinAlternatives has broken a story about a potential fraud at the very popular porn hedge fund – Priapus Investment Fund. The fund, managed by AdultVest Inc., has reportedly been “looted” by its manager Francis Koenig. According to a source, the article quotes:
“There is almost no money left in the fund,” the investor, who [...]

AdultVest Hedge Fund

Porn Hedge Fund Information
The CNBC video below details the story from a couple of years ago of a hedge fund which is focused on the porn industry.  The video talks about AdultVest which is a new hedge fund which will invest its assets in the adult entertainment industry.  The adult entertainment industry is a ripe [...]