Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Red Star Capital Management Unveils New Hedge Fund
Red Star Capital Management LLC is launching its first hedge fund, Red Star Fund LP. The new fund will begin trading October 1st and is domiciled in Delaware. The Red Star Fund LP, in conjunction with its subsidiary Red Star […]
PRS Group Adds Investment Professional
Miami, FL (September 27, 2005) – PRS Group announced today that Mr. Martin Loeser has joined the firm’s alternative investment team as a Portfolio Manager, Fund-of-Funds. Prior to joining PRS, Mr. Loeser was Senior Investment Analyst at Ivy Asset Management, […]
Hedge fund numbers to shrink greatly – Citigroup
MONACO, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The number of hedge funds operating globally will shrink sharply over the next five years as rising cost structures and short-lived market trends divide the industry between boutiques and very large multi-strategy funds, the head […]
Energy Prices, Hedge Funds and the Coming Energy Crisis (UtiliPoint.com)
Over the last 12 months or so UtiliPoint®, in conjunction with affiliate consultant, Global Change Associates, has followed the entry of hedge funds into the energy industry. The funds have been blamed by the media, politicians and others for running […]
Arlington Group and Eurekahedge establish Joint Venture to Seed Asian Hedge Funds
Arlington Group and Eurekahedge today announced the formation of a joint venture to provide seed capital and support to Asian hedge funds and Asian long-only absolute return funds. Arlington will commit seed capital to the individual funds while Eurekahedge will […]
Hedge funds return to property marketplace
NWITimes.com – Fewer opportunities in the stock market have prompted some hedge funds to bolster returns by making loans for commercial real estate such as office buildings. The arrival of the funds, lightly regulated groups of investors that cater to […]
Why Christopher Byron hates hedge funds
Corante – Christopher Byron of the New York Post must have spent the weekend sharpening his axe, since he came out Monday hacking away at the hedge fund industry. While we applaud Byron for his weekly exposes on criminal malfeasance […]
Trend set to thrive throughout 2006, bankers say
LONDON, England (Reuters) — The current boom in mergers and acquisitions is set to extend through 2006, fueled by low interest rates, cheap debt and cash-rich chief executives eager to expand after years of restructuring, senior bankers said on Monday. […]
See opportunity or be opportunistic?
– Economic Times [ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005 01:36:19 AM] These days there are regular media reports on the viability of hedge funds to produce above marketreturns given recent lower returns. Investors in hedge funds no doubt are paying attention […]
Ritchie Capital Launches Ritchie Technology & Life Sciences Finance
CHICAGO, IL – September 27, 2005 – Ritchie Capital Finance, the newly formed finance division of Ritchie Capital, is pleased to announce the creation of Ritchie Technology & Life SciencesFinance. Led by senior managing director, Bill DeMars, a financial services […]
Byron Wien Moves to Pequot Capital
( www.thestreet.com ) Pequot Capital Management, the hedge fund behemoth run by Art Samberg, hired Morgan Stanley senior investment strategist Byron Wien as chief investment strategist, effective Dec. 1. It’s the second time this year Samberg has tried to poach […]
Amplitude moves to the City of London
Amplitude Capital has moved to a more spacious and custom-built space in the City of London that further enhances the resilience and control of its operational and trading capabilities andfacilitates operating from a modern open plan environment. The move was […]