NEW YORK, NY — 04/29/09 — EXENET LLC, a leading provider of IT consulting, integration and outsourcing services for law firms, alternative investment and wealth management companies, today announced a new Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Consulting and Integration Service for Hedge Funds. EXENET will provide firms with management consulting, post-merger integration and Managed Infrastructure IT [...]
First No-Load, Open-End Mutual Fund Designed to Replicate Hedge Fund Performance Characteristics Now Available to Fidelity Advisors
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The IQ ALPHA Hedge Strategy Fund has been added to the Fidelity Investments mutual fund platform, it was announced today.
The IQ ALPHA Hedge Strategy Fund is the first no-load, open-end mutual fund to bring hedge fund-style investing [...]
Integrated ETF Solution Supports Investment Manager’s Growing Demand for Efficiency, Transparency and Risk Mitigation
OAKS, Pa., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC) today announced that it has been selected by Global X Management Company to provide a fully integrated, turnkey solution to support the firm’s global exchange traded funds (ETFs). SEI’s integrated ETF solution is [...]
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Board of Directors of First Opportunity Fund, Inc. (NYSE:FF) announced that, at its regularly scheduled meeting held on April 24, 2009, it considered and approved a proposal to restructure the Fund’s advisory contract. Under the proposed restructuring, two registered investment advisers (Rocky Mountain Advisers, LLC, and Stewart Investment Advisers) affiliated with the [...]
Interactive Brokers
Website: http://www.interactivebrokers.com
Location: One Pickwick Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830 USA
Regulations: member NYSE - FINRA - SIPC and regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Other: generally known for integrating well with automatic (or “black box”) trading systems
Description from Website:
Successful traders and investors understand that superior technology and low trading [...]
Background Information
Manger: Bridgewater Associates Inc
Public/Private:
Website: http://www.bwater.com
Location: Westport, Connecticut
AUM:$80billion; approximately $40billion in hedge fund strategies
Registration: SEC registered; New York and Connecticut notice filing
Strategies: various hedge fund strategies
Important Personnel: Raymond Dalio (President and CIO); Robert Prince (Co-CIO)
Funds: Bridgewater Real Asset Fund, Ltd.; Bridgewater Corporate bond Fund, LLC; All Weather Portfolio Trading, LLC; Bridgewater International Credit Fund Trading, [...]
Below is the Bridgewater Associates annual letter to clients.
Bridgewater Associates Annual Letter to Clients
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 [...]
13-Year Institutional Investor - Ranked High Yield Strategist Named Morgan Creek Principal
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Apr 21, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC, a $9 billion global investment management firm and registered investment advisor based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with offices in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing, has announced that Sam [...]
CHICAGO, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) announced today that U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors recorded a sixth straight quarter of losses in the period ending March 31, 2009 - but ended the quarter on a positive note, according to data in the Northern Trust Universe. The Northern Trust Universe represents more than [...]