Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team

KEYE Austin – (AP) The number of North American colleges with endowments topping $1 billion has jumped to 56, a new study says, with nine schools joining the elite club in what was an average year for university investments overall. […]

MSN MoneyCentral – One of Germany’s biggest “locusts” has praised the speed and efficiency with which the country is handling its economic problems. Bruno Scherrer, European head of Lone Star, the private equity group that has been the biggest buyer […]

Abu Dhabi-headquartered First Gulf Bank, which last week reported record net profits for 2005 of AED 1.06 billion, today launched its first open-ended, macro-strategy hedge fund – Al Saqer (TheFalcon) – to offer investors absolute return generation with low volatility […]

Reuters.uk – The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), which helped wreck Deutsche Boerse’s plan to buy the London Stock Exchange, has taken top honours in the European hedge fund industry for the secondyear running. TCI won trade publication EuroHedge’s 2005 Fund […]

Arizona Daily Star – The hedge-fund industry has achieved considerable success selling investments designed to make money no matter how the stock market fares. So far, the relative handful of mutual funds using hedge-fund strategies has not made market inroads, […]

Reuters – UK-listed hedge fund manager RAB Capital (RAB.L: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a 50 percent gain inassets under management on Friday, estimated a 43 percent pretax profit rise for 2005 and said it was confident about prospects for this […]

Forbes – ABN Amro Holding NV said it agreed to acquire International Asset Management (IAM), a London and New York-based fund of hedge funds manager with around 2.6 bln usd of assets under management. The transaction is subject to the […]

Globe and Mail – For months, investigators probing the collapse of hedge fund company Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. have been searching for a stash of 100 diamondsallegedly bought by company co-founder Boaz Manor. Their search landed in Israel’s highest […]

The Daily Yomiuri – Rising interest among investors has resulted in explosive growth of hedge fund investments in Japan, and 2006 will see both continued growth and good investment returns for an industry that is becoming mainstream. While many of […]

Reuters – Investment bankers in Asia, emboldened by fat bonuses and unprecedented demand for their services, are expected to jump ship at a dizzying pace as the job-hopping season begins in earnest. Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and other banks are due […]

This is Money – Hedge fund managers of RAB Capital are set for another bumper payday as the quoted group shrugged off several months of poor performance to book profits of more than £25m, up 43% on the previous year. […]

Liberty Group Ltd., South Africa’s third-biggest insurer, is pressing ahead with plans to sell an Australian unit and a hedge fund business and hopes to complete the deals quickly, Liberty Chief Executive Myles Ruck said. Liberty may receive A$150 million […]