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Skylight Comes In At #1 For Real Estate Hedge Funds

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Pacific Continental Fund Management’s Skylight Capital Build-Up fund has come first in a ranking of real estate hedge funds for Sharpe ratio over the past 36 months and third for compound annual return. The Barclay Group’s […]

Stonebrook Capital launches first alternative beta product in fund format

HedgeCo.net – NEW YORK, June 6, 2007 – Stonebrook Capital Management, LLC, (“Stonebrook”), a leading alternative investment firm specializing in Alternative Beta solutions, today announced the launch of an Alternative Beta strategy in a fund format – the first of […]

FIIs Investing In India Can Now Hedge In Dubai

Economic Times- Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and hedge funds will now have an alternate route to bet on the rising rupee. The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) will be launchingfutures contracts on the rupee. Each contract, which covers up […]

Growth Of 130/30 Funds May Lift Hedge Fund Borrowing

CNNMoney.com- Growth of so-called 130/30 and 120/20 funds may lift borrowing costs for hedge funds, according to a report released Monday by the consulting firm Vodia Group. These 130/30 and 120/20 funds are an increasingly popular alternative to hedge funds […]

100 Women In Hedge Funds Partners With DataArt

New York- (HedgeCo.Net) 100 Women in Hedge Funds announced that they have partnered with DataArt to update and automate their existing email systems which were no longer capable of efficiently managing communications to the organization’s 6000 global members. The new […]

Disclosure Advisory Board Speaks Out On Hedge Fund Secrecy

New York- (HedgeCo.Net) In a newly published white paper by the Disclosure Advisory Board, “Shareholder ID: The Resounding Silence of Non-Disclosure,” the Board calls for investors to reveal their identities and for regulators to re-examine existing shareholder disclosure rules, that […]

Hedge Funds Muscle In On Private Equity Deals

Livemint- Gridstone Research, an equity research start-up in Mumbai, had secured venture capital funding from three investors last March. The investors included Charles River Ventures, Helion Venture Partners and finally Maverick Capital, a $10 billion (Rs41,000 crore) American hedge fund. […]

Institutions Seen Investing $85 Bln In Hedge Funds

Reuters- Institutional investors are set to invest $85 billion into hedge funds and funds of hedge funds over the next 12-18 months, according to research firm Private Equity Intelligence (Preqin). In a note on Friday, Preqin said while high net […]

Hedge funds draw in the profits for Brait

Reuters- South African investment bank and private equity group Brait increased full-year earnings by 10 percent, helped by a solid performance from the firm’s specialised funds unit, the company said on Monday. Brait, one of the biggest private equity players […]

Germany Sees No Quick Fix to Hedge Fund Oversight

Reuters- German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck reiterated his wish to see greater oversight of the hedge fund industry ahead of a key summit, but said he did not expect consensus on the matter tobe reached quickly. As leaders of the […]

Waves of Change Hit Shores of Offshore “Tax Havens”

Many fund managers establish investment funds in offshore “tax haven” jurisdictions to satisfy the tax efficiency requirements of their tax-exempt investors (i.e., non-profit entities such as foundations and pension funds). The use of offshore jurisdictions for the purpose of tax […]

STOXX LAUNCHES NEXT GENERATION OF GROWTH

ZURICH (June 4, 2007)—STOXX Ltd., the leading European index provider, today launched the Dow Jones STOXX Strong Style index series, designed to accurately represent the performance of the most style pure companies in Europe and the Euro-zone. This blue-chip index […]