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March
An ex-Asia head of Deutsche Bank’s Saba proprietary trading desk, is planning to launch a hedge fund
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The long-term fund of the University of Sydney’s endowment will, for the first time, invest directly in hedge funds
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The Australian Securities Lending Association (ASLA) has released a comprehensive newsletter detailing key market events of the past 18 months.
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The real estate unit of Franklin Templeton is seeking to raise $300 million for its second Asian real estate fund
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Black’s Link Capital will launch an Asia hedge fund to trade securities affected by events, such as mergers
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EFG-Hermes is planning to float a private equity fund in Syria
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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The 7th annual PASLA/RMA conference on Asian securities lending got underway today. Global Investor/isf is there and brings you the best of it.
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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BBH has assigned two key staff to its Hong Kong office.
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Private equity firm Duke Street Capital is looking to raise about $1.4 billion for its seventh fund
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Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has launched the Franklin Templeton Asian Real Estate Fund 2
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State Street has announced the opening of its new Irish headquarters in Dublin.
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Stanley Fink, former chief executive of London-based Man Group, is to launch a computer-driven ‘black box’ fund
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Hennessee Group estimates that hedge fund industry assets increased by $751 billion in 2009 to $1.96 trillion
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Buyout firms are poised to spend $9 billion in Brazil on everything from infrastructure to oil exploration
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February
AEGON Asset Management launches UK Equity Absolute Return Fund
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NorthPoint gains access to ConvergEx's commission management technology.
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An Och-Ziff Capital Management and Goldman Sachs veteran, Frank Yu, has founded a China-focused private equity firm
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The consultancy, Kinetic Partners has openly welcomed the FSA's Hedge Fund Survey and Hedge Fund as a Counterparty Survey
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Carlyle Group is teaming up with Fosun to launch a renminbi fund
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Citigroup is in negotiations to sell its $4 billion hedge fund business.
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Neuberger Berman has sold its private funds placement business to Evercore Partners
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BNY Mellon Asset Management has appointed a managing director for broker-dealer relations.
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Cielo has appointed Deutsche Bank as depositary bank for the sponsored Level I American Depositary Receipt (ADR) programme.
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Direct Access Partners is launching a new multi prime brokerage service
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The Ohio School Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) has committed about $120 million to four new hedge funds.
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Dominick Falco is one of the founding fathers of the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association. He tells Global Investor/isf about the evolution he has witnessed in both Asia and the association.
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Singapore fund manager Aisling Analytics is to launch a $300 million equity hedge fund
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BlackRock is planning to launch a credit hedge fund in Asia
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Singapore has had to bend to new global best practice and implement rules that go against a policy that has successfully built a hedge fund industry on the island
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Asia hedge funds are back in business only to discover that the barriers to entry are now much higher
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Religare has bought a majority stake in private equity firm Northgate.
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Al Rajhi Capital and Arcapita Bank have launched a $500 million fund
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CME Group has reshuffled its management team and boosted the team to run its developing index business.
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Hedge fund managers are taking action in a bid to reduce their risk exposure, a study of the industry has found.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider new short-sale restrictions on February.
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Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been awarded a custody mandate.
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HSBC Prime Services has named a new global head of client service and integration
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South Africa is planning to regulate domestic private equity funds
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has won an account to provide custody, fund administration, shareholder services and performance analytics.
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A former Citigroup energy trader, has launched hedge fund firm
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The hedge fund industry has been through a transformational crisis and has come out with improved business and operational models
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KTOs Capital Partners is looking to invest in new Asian hedge funds
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Prime Rate Capital is looking to raise $250 million for an Islamic cash fund
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Knight Clearing Services, a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, has implemented SunGard’s Loanet securities finance solution.
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Activist hedge fund, Laxey Partners, is planning to target investment trusts
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A former Goldman Sachs trader is looking to launch a new hedge fund firm
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Orchard Capital Partners has rolled out a new long/short fund
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Wermuth Asset Management is looking to raise $500 million by launching three Russian funds
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Bank of Communications launches private equity fund
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The Hedge Fund Standards Board has diversified its board member base by adding two hedge fund investors
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Hedge Fund Research has found that emerging Asia is leading the hedge fund recovery
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The US based hedge fund data provider, Hedge Fund Research is now tracking UCITS III offerings
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BTIG has continued its expansion of its fixed income platform
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A Danish fund is looking to make an investment in the hedge fund universe.
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The European Commission is standing strong on its AIFM directive.
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A leading advisor to hedge funds has released its January results
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Triton Partners has raised $3.06 billion for its European fund
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Apax Partners has stopped its staff from selling their stakes in its most recent buyout fund
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A Canadian plan is committing millions to private equity
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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a London based hedge fund manager and fined him £140,000
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The Spanish government is seeking stricter rules around alternatives
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State Street Corporation has agreed to pay compensation to investors which will total $663million.
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Quadriserv today announced key additions to the roster of financial institutions serving as approved members of the AQS marketplace.
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State Street Global Advisors has appointed a new global head of its cash business.
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Alinda Capital Partners has raised $4 billion for its second infrastructure fund
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Apollo Management is setting up an Asia Pacific property fund
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BNY Mellon today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire a leading provider of custody, fund accounting, transfer agency and outsourcing solutions for asset managers and financial advisors.
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Cordea Savills has appointed Northern Trust to provide fund accounting, custody and trustee services for its new fund
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Commerzbank has closed Comas, its fund of hedge funds management business
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Deutsche Bank has opened its first branch in the United Arab Emirates' capital, Abu Dhabi.
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Lunar Capital holds first close of its Shanghai-based private equity fund
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has opened an office for the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Vanguard has filed an application to launch an absolute return fund
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January
Religare Mutual Fund has launched a gold-backed fund in India
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The private equity investment unit of China’s CITIC Securities has raised $1.32 billion for its industrial investment fund
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Deutsche Bank and Barclays Global Investors respectively, have launched a boutique hedge fund
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Armajaro Asset Management has spun out a commodity-focused hedge fund
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Hermes Private Equity has rolled out an environmental fund in partnership with the UK government
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RBC Dexia has signed a contract to provide fund administration services in a variety of regions.
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Mirae Asset Global Investments has had its SICAV range of funds registerd for distribution in central European countries.
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New Horizon Capital is looking to raise $1 billion for a private equity fund
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President Obama’s plan could have a very significant impact on the alternatives industry.
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CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company has won a contract to deliver global custody and accounting services.
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Concord International is looking to raise $750 million from Japanese investors
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Land Securities is planning to invest in property-based derivative instruments
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Cordea Savills has launched a fund to buy prime assets in Britain’s commercial property market
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Morningstar, a provider of independent investment research, today reported preliminary hedge fund performance for the fourth quarter and year-end 2009.
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Alfred Berg has made two key additions to its investment team.
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Two private equity firms have been appointed by a Texas fund.
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The European Commission undergoes new initiative
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Citi has won a mandate to provide a suite of fund of hedge fund administration services.
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The hedge fund industry continued its recovery from the financial crisis of 2008, a leading provider of hedge fund industry data revealed today.
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Leopard Capital is looking to roll out two new funds.
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State Street has won a new mandate providing a wide range of services
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Turkish firm to launch market neutral hedge fund
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Credit Suisse makes another strategic hire in Asia.
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Gartmore is setting up a long/short pan-European fund
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The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index recorded large gains in the last decade.
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The Dubai-based team of ING Investment Management is planning to roll out a frontier-market product
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by RMK Timberland Group to provide custody, fund administration and shareholder services for a Specialised Investment Fund (SIF) in Luxembourg.
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Allianz is planning to significantly increase investments in private equity, property and infrastructure, such as renewable energy assets.
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James Harpel and Kenneth Ginsburg have launched a new hedge fund firm, Althea Capital
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Finisterre launches EM fund for NY pension scheme
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Hazel Capital, the London-based specialist ‘cleantech’ investment manager, is launching the Hazel Global Cleantech Equity Fund, a Dublin-domiciled UCITS III fund
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Northern Trust has hired a new head for Northern's offshore Guernsey office.
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Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild is supporting a new Ucits III-compliant hedge funds venture
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Ant Capital Partners is looking to raise finances for a Japanese buyout fund in February
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Aviva Investors has raised more than £200 million for the Aviva Investors UK Real Estate Recovery Fund
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BC Partners is planning to raise $8.4 billion for leveraged buyouts in 2010
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Sri Wijegoonaratna is planning to set up a global macro hedge fund firm
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Proprietary trading firm First New York Securities has formed a new unit aimed at servicing asset management firms.
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Macquarie Group has launched a $408 million Mexican infrastructure fund in Mexico, with Mexico’s infrastructure fund, Fonadin, and seven Mexican pension funds.
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Thames River Capital has unveiled an Ucits III absolute return fund of funds with $77 million in assets under management
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Hedge fund manager, Tiresias Capital, is planning to launch its Asian fund in the first quarter of 2010
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Dalton Strategic Partnership is setting up a Ucits III-compliant hedge fund. The MST European fund will seek to get positive absolute returns, uncorrelated to bond and equity markets.
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Ex-chief fund manager at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Kunio Tomiyama, is looking to set up a Japan hedge fund by the end of 2010
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Icap Equities has rolled out an algorithmic trading system
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MFC Global Investment Management (Asia) has hired a head of Asia-Pacific equities.
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Wells Fargo Funds Management and Evergreen Investment Management are planning mutual fund product offering changes.
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CR Property Advisers is launching a $485.43 million buy-to-let fund. The CR Property fund, to be unveiled on Jan.14, will be managed by British Land.
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Carlyle Group is planning a renminbi-denominated fund and has partnered with the Beijing municipal government for the same
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Mike Nawas and Steve Curry have launched Bishopfield Capital Partners, a London-based European structured finance boutique
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Northern Trust has been appointed by FF&P Asset Management to provide custody and fund administration services.
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Hong Kong-based SAIL Advisors is looking to launch a $200-300 million fund
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Sanders Capital has been added to the investment advisory team of Vanguard’s largest actively managed equity fund, the $35 billion Vanguard Windsor II Fund.
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Volition Capital has been spun out of the Boston-based investment team of Fidelity Investments’ venture unit, Fidelity Ventures
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Aberdeen Asset Management Asia’s equities chief in Singapore will resign this year.
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Citigroup has unveiled an end-to-end service for European Union domiciled hedge funds.
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Citigroup First Investment Management (CFIM) has floated a new fund targeting greater China equities.
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Feri Institutional Advisors has won a $1.1 billion risk-overlay mandate.
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Investec Asset Management has rolled out three Luxembourg-based Ucits III funds.
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Financier, Hugh Osmond, is looking to raise $804.4 million for a distressed asset fund.
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Atom Capital Management is planning to roll out a new Japan-focused hedge fund in March
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BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services has been appointed by Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG to provide fund administration and custody services for its Irish domiciled fund of managed accounts.
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Louisbourg Investments has selected an investor services provider.
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The average pension fund trustee will be looking at returns of 15%, while charity trustees will enjoy returns of around 19%.
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Veritas Asset Management is restructuring one of its absolute return funds
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Hennessee Group, a consultant and adviser to direct investors in hedge funds, has announced it was a good year for the industry.
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Legal & General Investment Management is looking to raise $1 billion for its third hedge fund
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New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, has raised about $2.5 billion for its thirteenth fund
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RBS has appointed Galen Moore as head of EDF market access product, Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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Riverside Partners has closed its fourth fund with $406 million, exceeding its target of $250 million.
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The equity market rally that began in March 2009 will continue in 2010, but the market’s rise will be less steep than last year.
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Lazard Asset Management has floated an actively managed mutual fund that targets infrastructure companies
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Penjing Asset Management and Asia Alternative Asset Partners have entered a joint venture to raise investment capital for start-up hedge funds
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The Euroclear Board announced today that Tim Howell has accepted the board’s offer to become chief executive officer of the company.
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Custodians have always been serious about post-investment risks in local markets, but they need to use their knowledge and influence wisely.
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Onex, a Toronto-based buyout firm, will boost its stake in its latest fund by 60%.
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London-based DAR Capital Group will roll out its film funding business in the first half of 2010
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Two ex-PAI Partners executives are planning to jointly launch a new vehicle