Posts Tagged ‘hedge fund’

GlobeOp Offers Hedge Funds Full Advent Geneva Hosting & Conversion Support

NEW YORK, LONDON – 04 NOVEMBER 2009 – GlobeOp has launched hosted services for Geneva, Advent’s award-winning portfolio management and fund accounting solution, offering hedge funds a scalable, proven outsourcing solution that can reduce both fund time to market and execution risks.
Customized hosted and full platform conversion services are available on a standalone basis or [...]

FRM CAPITAL ADVISORS SEEDS ITS FIRST ASIA FOCUSED HEDGE FUND

The owner and manager of Isometric Capital Management, Sanjiv Bhatia, will be launching the first Asia focused hedge fund, while FRM Capital Advisors plan to make significant investments.
The full text of the press release is reprinted below, and can also be found here.
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FRM Capital Advisors (”FCA”), the seeding division of Financial Risk Management (”FRM”), has [...]

SERVICE PROVIDER | Rothstein Kass

Rothstein Kass - Certified Public Accountants - CPAs - specializing in: accounting and consulting, auditing, taxes, hedge funds, and financial planning

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Rothstein Kass’ financial services group has over 20 years of experience servicing domestic and offshore hedge funds, funds of funds, private [...]

Prisma Capital Partners Continues Strategic Expansion

Prisma Adds Further Experience in Client Services and Marketing
Prisma Capital Partners LP announced that John Stimpson has joined the firm as one of the Managing Directors in its Marketing Group, bringing the senior members of that team to four people. He will focus on business development and consulting relations in the pension community.
Girish Reddy, Founder [...]

Hatteras Funds to Acquire AIP Mutual Funds

Hatteras Looks to Expand Firm’s Alternative Investment Solutions for Financial Advisors with Mutual Funds of Hedge Fund Strategies
Hatteras Funds, a leading provider of distinct alternative investment solutions for financial professionals, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Alternative Investment Partners, LLC, a Harrison, NY-based provider of [...]

Research and Markets: An Essential Report on Hedge Fund Management

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Hedge Fund Management” report to their offering
First Research is the leading industry intelligence company that helps sales teams perform faster and smarter, open doors, and close more deals. First Research performs the “heavy lifting” by synthesizing hundreds of sources into an easy to digest format that [...]

Philip Levinson to Join Blackstone in Asia

Blackstone Group Recruits Philip Levinson to Help Raise Capital
The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) announced on June 29th, 2009 that Philip Levinson will join the firm, effective July 6, as a Managing Director. Mr Levinson will be responsible for raising capital for Blackstone’s suite of funds, maintaining client relationships and participating in the development of new [...]

Asia-Tigers Fund, Inc Announces Opportunity to Repurchase Common Stock

The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. Announces Commencement Date of Semi-Annual Repurchase Offer
The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. (NYSE: GRR; the “Fund”) announced today that the Fund’s semi-annual repurchase offer will commence today and terminate on July 17, 2009. In April 2002, stockholders of the Fund voted to adopt an interval fund structure, pursuant to which the [...]

Hedge Funds Care Letter

Hedge Fund Charity on the 4th
We know about Hedge Funds Care is an organization devoted to helping children.  Below is a letter the organization sent out to the hedge fund community regarding this weekend.
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July 3, 2009
Dear Friend,
This coming weekend is July 4th, and in the United States that really is the beginning of summer. And [...]

Funds Clinging to Positions; Investors Encouraged to Speak Up

Hedge Fund Investors Encouraged to Push for Liquidations of Some Funds
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article discussing the growing tendency for some hedge funds to limit withrdrawal of money by investors. This practice risks permitting some managers to place improper values on the investments and continue to charge high management fees. Fund managers defend their practice of preventing investors from early [...]