Category Archives: Hedge Fund Launches

Truebeta Launches Hedge Fund Replication Model

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Independent, factor-based hedge fund replication service, TrueBeta, is launching a dynamic leverage model for hedge fund replication. The company says the application will improve it’s correlation to broad hedge fund performance. “TrueBeta is setting a benchmark […]

UK Hedge Fund Manager Launches Green Investment Opportunity

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Future Capital Partners (FCP), the £6 billion ($9.68 billion) hedge fund and alternative investment boutique, has launched a groundbreaking investment opportunity that will allow UK investors to invest in the rapidly growing Renewable Transport Fuels (RTF) […]

Hedge Fund Greatwater Shows Strong Gains In First Year

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Greatwater Investment Management, Inc. (GWIM) last year launched  The Greatwater Fund, LP., whose unique strategy and philosophy focuses on risk adjusted returns in the emerging markets. In its first year, The Greatwater Fund gained 69.6%. Domiciled […]

The Half Moon REO Hedge Fund Launch

New York (HedgeCo.net) – New York-based real estate hedge fund The Half Moon group has launched The Half Moon REO Fund, LP. The new fund focuses on financing a strategic network of joint venture partners who are experts in the […]

BNY Launches Independant Hedge Fund Validation Service

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund administrator BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services has launched a service that independently validates a hedge fund’s position records to third-parties – prime brokers, custodians, trustees and agent banks – and independently verifies the pricing […]

Update 3: State Street Buys $170 Billion UK Fund Admin. Company

New York (HedgeCo.net) – State Street Corporation is expanding its global servicing capabilities with an agreement to acquire alternative fund administration company Mourant International Finance Administration in a cash transaction. The UK company is headquartered in Jersey in the Channel […]

Old Lane Founders Launch $300 Million Equities Hedge Fund

New York (HedgeCo.net) – In one of this years biggest U.S. based hedge fund launches, four of the founders of the now defunct Citigroup hedge fund, Old Lane, have a new start up hedge fund, Meru Capital Group. The hedge […]

Jun Mihara Announces Launch of Asian Distressed Debt Hedge Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) Former Merrill Lynch banker Jun Mihara, 45, has announced plans to launch a fund to invest in Asian distressed debt.  Mihara was hired by Zais Group LLC of Red Bank, NJ last month to serve as its […]

Hedge Funds Launching UCTIS Onshore Funds In Europe

New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to research from HedgeFund Intelligence, more than half of the Europe’s hedge fund firms have either launched onshore Undertakings on Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, (UCITS) hedge funds or are considering it. Some of Europe’s […]

Bluenose Launches Capital Market Neutral Hedge Fund

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager, Bluenose Capital Management Ltd. is launching the Bluenose Capital Market Neutral Fund, aimed at accredited and professional investors. Going live on October 1st, 2009, the new fund will employ a proprietary factor-based […]

Citadel marketing new fund with lower fees

Reuters –  U.S. hedge fund Citadel Investment Group LLC plans to roll out several new funds, including one with lower fees that will aim to make money on currencies, interest rates and other trades based on broad economic trends, the […]

Chief investment officer for pension fund resigns

San Diego Union Tribune – The county pension board’s chief investment officer has resigned a week after a second hedge fund collapse in which employee retirement investments could lose as much as $78 million. David Deutsch, who held the job […]