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December
China General Technology Investment Fund Management has unveiled the Environment Industry Fund
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Intech Investment Management has unveiled its Enhanced Global Equity strategy
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Nazca Capital has raised $167 million in a first close for its third fund
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Albert Ee is looking to launch a macro hedge fund in Singapore
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Ireland has introduced a law to make it easier for Cayman Islands-based hedge funds to move to Dublin
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SSgA wins mandate
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State of Wisconsin Investment Board to hire hedge funds
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UK asset manager, Jubilee Financial Products, has appointed BNY Mellon Asset Servicing.
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Mutual fund firm, Dreyfus Corporation, has unveiled a Brazilian equity fund, PR Newswire reports
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State Street announced today that it has further expanded its relationship with Illinois-based Calamos Investments.
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Jackson National Asset Management has appointed Mellon Capital Management.
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Hedge fund firm, Osiris Partners, has floated a long/short hedge fund.
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Swiss alternative assets manager, Partners Group, has closed its secondary fund at its hard cap of $3.63 billion.
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Stanford University has pulled $5 billion of private-partnership interests from the auction block.
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TMX Group will create a clearing house for repurchase agreements.
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Marlin Equity has raised $650 million for its institutional private equity fund
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The Teachers Retirement System of Texas has committed $150 million to a CLSA Capital Partners’ fund
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Hermes Fund Managers has bought London-based asset manager, Sourcecap. Sourcecap will form part of Hermes’ multi-boutique platform alongside hedge fund, BPK.
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Hong Kong fund of hedge funds firm, Infiniti Capital, is planning to set up a $200-400 million film fund.
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Nomura has been approved as a CDS clearing member of ICE Clear Europe, effective immediately.
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has been appointed by Standard Life Investments. RBC Dexia will offer global custody, investment administration and shareholder services to the firm’s Australian-domiciled fund.
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India-based Religare Private Equity will launch an Asia fund of funds
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Ex-Nuon trader, Fredrik Adolfson, is looking to launch an energy fund on January 18 with Adapto Advisors.
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FaithShares Trust has set up three exchange traded funds (ETFs) for Christian investors.
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The UK government has named two fund-of-fund managers for its UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF).
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Northern Trust has appointed Fifi Ting to its asset management unit in Hong Kong. Ting will serve as Asia-Pacific head of sales and client service for Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI).
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The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) is seeking alternative asset managers for predetermined allocations.
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Goldman Sachs has obtained licenses from Malaysia’s Securities Commission to set up fund management and advisory operations in the country.
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Property group, Lend Lease, is launching a $400 million private equity fund In Australia. The Lend Lease Real Estate Partners No 3 Fund will invest in distressed assets in Australia.
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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has set up a US Community Investing Index strategy.
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Grupo Nacional de Chocolates has appointed BNY Mellon. The latter will serve as depositary for its American depositary receipt (ADR) programme.
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Centrecourt Asset Management is setting up a distressed/credit opportunities fund. The CAM Distressed/Credit Opportunities Fund is Centrecourt’s third fund.
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Euroclear Bank and the newly created Shanghai Clearing House have signed today a Memorandum of Understanding as the basis to build a close co-operative relationship.
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Hedge funds' pain won’t all have been in vain, for the industry has found that managed accounts are potentially the way forward to better client relationships and higher fees
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Two former hedge fund managers at SAC Capital Advisors and Pequot Capital Management are starting their own firm next month.
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Merchant Capital has rolled out an Ucits III umbrella structure. The Irish-domiciled structure will speed the time to market for new Ucits funds.
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Gatehouse Bank and DDCAP will launch a fully Shariah-compliant Structured Trade Finance Fund in early 2010.
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Barclays Capital is seeking regulatory approval to launch equities trading for the first time in over a decade in the domestic market.
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Charteris Treasury Portfolio Managers is looking to set up a gold fund. The move is an effort to capitalise on the next phase of the gold bull market, which it expects to continue until 2019.
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Legg Mason affiliate, Batterymarch Financial Management, believes that emerging market corporate earnings will continue to deliver on the upside in 2010.
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Lone Star Funds has raised over $1.2 billion for two of its funds. The Lone Star Fund VII has secured almost $500 million, while the Lone Star Real Estate Fund II has received $725 million.
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Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has added seven firms to its list of emerging and minority/women-owned broker dealer list for equity trading.
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Osmosis Investment Management has launched the Osmosis Climate Solutions ETF.
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Prime Rate Capital Management is to launch an Islamic liquidity fund, the first Shariah compliant liquidity instrument targeting a triple-A rating for the Islamic wholesale investment markets.
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Florida State Board of Administration (FSBA) is planning to award $500 million hedge fund mandates.
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Private equity firm, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, has raised over $1 billion for its first fund
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Japan’s Alternative Investment Capital (AIC) is planning to unveil a new private equity fund of funds
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Blacksquare Capital is planning to set up an absolute return multi-manager fund
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Scandinavian hedge fund manager, Brummer & Partners, is planning to launch a Bangladeshi equity hedge fund
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Instinct Capital has launched an event-driven opportunity fund
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Concerns about inadequate GP reporting, conflicts of interest, and fund terms and conditions will lead over three quarters of investors to refuse commitments to new funds
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Four Citigroup veterans have rolled out a hedge fund start-up
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TLG Capital, a frontier market fund, becomes the largest shareholder in the Swedish Ghana Medical Centre, a private health care provider located in Ghana
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Belay Partners London has hired Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services Ireland to offer administration services for its new hedge fund.
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GAM has enhanced its range of UCITS III funds to include a directional, highly liquid, emerging market debt and currency fund.
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Liontrust is seeking to launch four hedge funds next year.
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Macquarie Group is planning to roll out an infrastructure fund in South Korea.
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November
State Street announced today that it has been appointed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing services for approximately $300 billion in assets.
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Venture capital firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), is planning to raise about $400 million by March
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Africa is set to become a leading investment target for telecoms investors, as underlined by the latest data from the Altimo Index
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Prudential Real Estate Investors is looking to raise $501 million for a Mexican industrial property fund
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Paris private equity firm, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, has raised $373 million for its growth capital fund
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Standard Life Investments is planning to set up a $295 million pan-European recovery fund
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Jun Mihara is planning to roll out a $1.1bn fund to invest in Asian distressed assets
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London-based Financial Risk Management has launched FRM Principia, a range of fund of hedge fund products
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Vanguard today introduced seven bond index funds with ETF Shares featuring expense ratios of 0.15%.
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The private equity head of Global Investment House (GIH), Shailesh Dash, has set up an alternative investment firm.
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Oregon-based Harness Investment Management Group is rolling out a mutual fund. The Harness Absolute Return Fund is expected to start operations on December 31, 2009.
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JP Morgan today announced it has successfully signed up its 40th derivatives collateral management (DCM) client. The firm now has more DCM clients than any other major competitor.
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) will sell its custodian services business in Australia and New Zealand for an undisclosed amount.
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The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS), California, is planning to end its contract with Capital Guardian.
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RREEF, the alternative assets group of Deutsche Bank, is unveiling a German special fund. The European Core Recovery Fund will seek office and retail income-driven core assets across Europe.
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Central-Asia focused Sturgeon Fund has hired BNY Mellon as global custodian.
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The UK government has drafted a bill to prevent “abusive” short selling. The bill proposes to give formal jurisdiction to the Financial Services Authority to place “emergency restrictions” on short selling.
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Boeing is planning to invest about $1.7 billion in direct hedge funds next year
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Gartmore is launching a Japan absolute return fund that will use Gartmore’s Japanese long/short strategy AlphaGen Hokuto strategy
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Hedge fund manager, John Paulson, is looking to invest about $250 million in a new gold fund
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Norwest Venture Partners has raised $1.2 billion for its eleventh fund
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iShares has floated five new A-share exchange traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong. The funds will provide access to the CSI 300 index and will give a more focused exposure to sectors, including energy, financials, infrastructure and materials.
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Eaton Vance Management has set up a new taxable municipal bond fund.
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Hedge funds investing in emerging markets continued their recovery from 2008’s record losses, with the HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index gaining 11.8% in the third quarter, according to data released today by Hedge Fund Research.
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GlobeOp Financial Services has been selected by the Mereor Absolute Return Fund as its full-service fund administration provider.
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Old Mutual Asset Managers (OMAM) is to float a global bond fund on December 1.
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Shuaa Capital Saudi Arabia has got approval from the Capital Market Authority (CMA) for three Shuaa funds.
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Investor DailyOptiMix has appointed Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM). CAAM is the exclusive global inflation-linked bond manager for the multi-manager.
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Connecticut is seeking an investment manager for a $1.1 billion stable value fund.
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The positive inflow trend continues for European investment funds €149 billion net inflows to September.
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Robert Frey, ex-managing director at Renaissance Technologies, is rolling out a fund of hedge funds.
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Fidelity Mutual Fund has set up a diversified domestic equity fund.
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Jupiter has rolled out its North American Equities Sicav.
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Kotak Mahindra has unveiled an infrastructure focused fund for European retail investors.
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Nestle has hired Northern Trust for a global custody mandate. The latter will offer global custody for two of Nestle’s cross-border pooled funds.
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CalPERS is looking to renegotiate parts of its agreement with Apollo Global Management.
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GAM has expanded its range of UCITS III funds to include an onshore version of its successful global macro interest rate and currency strategy.
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ICAP and GreTai Securities Markets enter into strategic partnership to offer onshore US government bond trading in Taiwan.
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Emotional Assets Management & Research has set up its first fund
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Butterfield Fulcrum, an alternative fund administrator, has won the mandate to provide third-party administration services to Flintlock Capital Asset Management.
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GLG is looking to float five absolute return funds into the U.K. market
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Venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, has closed its eighth fund at $400 million
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Mayhew Asset Management has set up a global timberland fund
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QInvest, along with Fortis Bank Nederland, will launch a $200 million Islamic ship financing fund
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The European Union is planning to enforce pay restrictions on hedge fund managers and private-equity firms.
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Hong Kong-based alternatives investment firm, Galaxy Asset Management, is planning to launch its third hedge fund.
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Swiss firm, Gottex Fund Management Holdings, has received an unsolicited offer for its listed London fund
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Funds-of-hedge funds manager, Liongate Capital Management, has set up an office in Dubai
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Fubon Financial Holding has inked a private equity joint venture with two state-run Chinese companies.
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J.P. Morgan has been appointed by emerging markets manager Greylock Capital Management to provide private equity fund administration.
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Real estate private equity firm, Lone Star Funds, is looking to raise $20 billion.
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The U.K. should create an onshore regulated hedge fund sector, according to Paul Myners.
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There is rising concern over the degree of “clustering” among UK equity income funds, according to Standard & Poor’s Fund Services, in its latest review of the sector.
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BNY Mellon has been named fund administrator by Tribridge Investment Partners.
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Bursa Malaysia has introduced Direct Market Access (DMA) for the equities market.
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Hennessee Group, a consultant and adviser to direct investors in hedge funds, announced today that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index declined -0.50% in October.
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Invicta Capital is planning a $500 million fund targeting construction and operation of biomass combined heat and power plants in Scotland
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Private equity firm, Lime Rock, has raised $410 million for its second fund.
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A former head of commodities research and fund manager at Tudor Investment is looking to set up a commodity hedge fund
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Asset manager, Neuberger Berman, is setting up a new commodity futures fund in Europe
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The New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF) has invested $200 million in a Hellman & Friedman private equity fund
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Asia-focused hedge funds continued to build on strong gains posted in the first half of 2009, with the HFRI Emerging Markets: Asia ex-Japan Index returning nearly 9% in the third quarter, according to data released today by Hedge Fund Research.
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RBC Capital Markets has hired Mike Bass as a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income & Currencies, Asia (non-Japan).
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Scipion Capital, the African hedge fund manager, has launched a mining fund which allows investors to capitalise on the recovery of the junior mining and natural resources sector in Africa.
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Spanish exchange, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), is planning to set up a trade repository for the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets,
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Activist investor, The Children's Investment fund (TCI), has shut down its Asian operations.
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The AIMA has reiterated its support for the registration of hedge fund managers in the US and for the reporting of systemically relevant information by larger managers.
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Johannesburg-based private equity firm, EVI Capital Partners, has rolled out two alternative investment funds, for a total of $800 million
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The CEO of QuantZ Capital Management is setting up his own hedge fund, HedgeCo.net reports
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Tyrus Capital, the hedge fund set to be launched on Monday by former Deephaven manager Tony Chedraoui, has raised more than $800m
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Property and finance group, Mill Group, is looking to start an $823 million residential property in London and the south-east
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October
RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by Keel Capital AB as custodian, domiciliary agent, administrative agent, registrar and transfer agent.
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A former Franklin Templeton executive, Jeff Everett, is launching a Canadian-dollar based hedge fund.
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Closed-end investment manager, Ares Capital, will buy lender, Allied Capital, for $648 million in an all stock deal
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Swiss investment firm, Naissance Capital, is to start a fund that will invest in companies with a high number of women executives
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Apex Fund has unveiled its first private fund administration service in China.
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A survey published today by RBC Dexia Investor Services and KPMG shows how some of Europe's largest asset managers plan to capitalise on UCITS IV.
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Gennaro Pucci, a former trader at credit manager, Credaris, has launched a $100 million hedge fund.
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Nick Taylor, a former executive of Citadel Investment Group, is set to launch an Asia-focused hedge fund start-up
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London-based Investec Asset Management is floating an absolute return emerging markets currency fund
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London-based Investec Asset Management is floating an absolute return emerging markets currency fund
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Private equity manager, Anthony Correa, is looking to launch a Hong Kong-based hedge fund
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BlackRock believes that alternative assets will return to the radar screens of institutional investors.
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Hedge fund manager, John Meriwether, is gearing up to launch a new hedge fund.
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Asian hedge fund manager, PMA Capital Management, has set up a new hedge fund to invest in India.
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Spanish firm, Siitnedif SGIIC, has floated an Iberian equity fund.
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Direxion Funds is planning to set up a long/short mutual fund to invest in IPOs, spin-offs of local and foreign issuers and financial instruments that provide exposure to these IPOs.
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The private equity unit of JPMorgan Chase and Russia’s Interros Holding are planning to form a $1 billion investment firm
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BNY Mellon has been appointed as a provider of global hedge fund custody services by the Capula Global
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After four consecutive quarters of net withdrawals, hedge funds recorded a net asset inflow in 3Q 09.
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London & Capital has floated three new income funds in the U.K. retail market.
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It should be no surprise that the European Commission's
directive on alternative investment funds managers (AIFM) has been a source of major concern. Hugo Cox reports on its effects.
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Schroders launches Schroder Global Alternative Investor Access.
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Germany-based Aquila Capital is launching an alternative fixed income fund
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Hedge fund firm, Cadogan Management, will spinoff from Fortis Bank
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HSBC has launched its HSBC Ucits AdvantEdge fund of hedge funds
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Legg Mason Global Asset Management has set up a global multi-asset absolute return fund
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Lucidus Capital Partners has launched a high-yield debt hedge fund
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Impax Asset Management has appointed Allan McKenzie as chairman of its new Asian investment trust
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California-based firm Rogers Investment Advisors is planning to set up its second Asia-focused private equity fund
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Former GLG hedge fund manager, Georges Gedeon, has launched his own hedge fund in Paris
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Threadneedle Asset Management has named Kris Haber as head of its global hedge fund business in North America
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An emerging markets private equity firm, Actis, has closed an infrastructure fund at $750 million.
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The London Pensions Fund Authority fund, like many other funds, has suffered from the global financial crisis. However, the performance could have been worse but for its diversification strategy, writes James Norris
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The credit crisis has claimed a number of victims, including the theory of decoupling. Or has it? As resurgent emerging markets leave behind the arthritic developed economies, the debate has resurfaced, writes James Norris
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Andrew Baker, Chief Executive Officer of the
Alternative Investment Management Association discusses the AIFM directive
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Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), along with U.S. asset manager, New Castle, is planning to launch a range of hedge fund products.
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Credit Suisse Group is planning to launch alternative investment funds in Japan to attract the nation’s pensions money.
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Man AHL has rolled out a futures fund with the approval of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.
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RCM, the equity fund management unit of Allianz, is planning to roll out two new hedge fund products
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Impax, the AIM listed investment manager focused on the environmental sector, has announced its name will be changed to Impax Asset Management Group, subject to confirmation by Companies House
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Lisette van Doorn, chief executive of European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, is leaving the association to join ING Real Estate Investment Management Italy.
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September
BNY Mellon Asset Management’s subsidiary, Dreyfus, has unveiled two fund-of-funds.
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Northern Trust has recruited David Lester as head of institutional sales at its Canadian asset management unit.
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Northern Trust and Merlin Securities have entered into an agreement to provide Merlin clients access to Northern Trust's custody services.
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Ryan Bacher has joined Barclays Capital as managing director, head of Prime Services, Asia Pacific.
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Brazilian pension funds may sell nearly $39.1 billion of government bonds.
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Investec Asset Management has hired the founder and CEO of De Fay Asset Management
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Smith & Williamson is looking to alter the structure of its Enterprise hedge fund.
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Thames River Capital and Jupiter Asset Management are planning to launch offshore funds in the UK and European markets.
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Australia’s TWUSUPER has moved out of domestic listed property trusts (LPTs) to only target international LPTs.
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The Scotia Capital Canadian Hedge Fund Performance Index finished August 2009 up 2.42%.
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Investment firm, Oaktree Capital Management, will invest $1 billion for China Investment Corporation
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TradeStation has launched its new TradeStation Prime Services division.
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CCB International (Holdings) (CCBI) has set up its healthcare fund in Beijing
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Ex-Marshall Wace partner, Daoud Zekrya, is launching a long/short European equities portfolio
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ING Real Estate Investment Management (Asia) is looking to raise around $750 million for its second China-focused fund
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KKR Asset Management is appointing Lee Stern as a director, with responsibility for originating and structuring mezzanine investments
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Ex-Deephaven Capital Management fund manager, Tony Chedraoui, is planning to roll out a $500 million hedge fund
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J.P. Morgan and iSophis have launched a tool allowing hedge funds to manage their portfolios across multiple prime brokers.
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The Alternative Investment Management Association has welcomed the findings of a survey of its members.
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Private equity firm, Clearbrook Capital, and real estate adviser, DTZ, are launching a commercial property investment trust, Index Linked Properties
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The Danish teachers’ pension fund, Lærernes Pension, has invested around 7% of its assets in forestry
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The South East Asian Strategic Assets Fund has bought Babcock & Brown’s interest in the latter’s Asia infrastructure fund
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Deutsche Bank is offering six fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs) to investors in the UK for the first time
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Fortress International will be setting up a life settlement fund in Luxembourg, later this year
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ML Capital has launched an alternatives advisory service for managers, headed by Shane Norman, a former star fund manager with Rothschilds and authority on alternative investment funds
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BlackRock is launching a new hedge fund to provide investors access to its BlackRock UK Smaller Companies hedge fund
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Former Lehman Brothers veterans, Paul Penkett and Stephen Cheng are seeking more external investors for their Omnix Multistrategy Fund in Hong Kong
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About 30 bankers from Société Générale have quit to launch their own hedge fund, including Arié Assayag, head of the French bank’s $12.7 billion global hedge funds business.
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The Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGS Super) has reallocated $450 million.
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Scandinavia’s Procuritas has closed its fourth private equity fund at $203 million.
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Tiburon Partners is set to start a Green absolute return fund by October, Investment Week reports. The Ucits III-styled fund will be co-managed by Hexam Capital joint founder, John Payne
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Ascalon Capital Managers has set up a new boutique hedge fund
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UK hedge fund manager Cheyne Capital Management has unveiled it first Ucits III fund
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The Singapore unit of India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company is launching a fund of private-equity funds
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Dennis Lopez has joined AXA Real Estate Investment Managers as global CIO
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Bank of China is looking to set up a fund-of-funds, which will invest in hedge funds
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James Caan, owner of private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw, has teamed up with ING Real Estate Investment Management, to launch a UK commercial property fund
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BNP Paribas is planning to raise $300 million for a private equity fund in the Gulf Arab region
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Hedge fund, Carlson Capital, has appointed Jason Karp, former executive of SAC Capital Advisors, as co-CIO
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Special situations private equity firm, KPS Capital Partners, has added $800 million of capital to its KPS Special Situations Fund III
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Ark Fund Management and Redwood Asset Management are planning a merger
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The Employees Retirement System of Texas is planning to allocate $2.1 billion to private real estate, in the next five years
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August
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Ralph Leib, formerly senior investment strategist at Western Australian GESB fund, has quit to start his own global long/short hedge fund.
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Egypt's Beltone Private Equity and Sudan's Kenana Sugar Company have inked an agreement to invest up to $1 billion in developing agriculture projects.
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RBC Capital Markets has hired Marc Fleischman as head of Hedge Fund Sales, Europe.
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Dennis Gartman, economist and editor of the Gartman Letter, has launched his maiden hedge fund.
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GroFin has raised $170 million for its GroFin Africa Fund.
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Surging Asian equity markets in the second quarter of 2009 contributed to the strongest performance in nearly a decade for Asia-focused hedge funds.
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Former Lehman Brothers Holdings banker, Edward Filippi, has raised $35 million for a hedge fund.
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Morningstar has reported good performance results for hedge funds in July.
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Macquarie and China Everbright are planning to raise $1.5 billion for two funds.
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Man Investments' seeding fund, RMF Global Emerging Managers, has invested $50 million in Hong Kong's Minerva Macro Fund.
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Mirae Asset Global Management has unveiled its maiden retail fund in Hong Kong.
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Man Investments' seeding fund, RMF Global Emerging Managers, has invested $50 million in Hong Kong's Minerva Macro Fund.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, CLSA and Hong Kong's First Eastern Investment are launching private equity funds in Shanghai.
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Hedge funds have returned to the levels of October last year according to research by Edhec, staging a remarkable recovery.
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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), Franklin Templeton and Julius Baer are planning multi-asset launches.
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The hedge fund manager Man Group, is selling its remaining 18.6% stake in MF Global.
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July
As part of a thought leadership series, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp sponsored the latest of Global Investor's Editorial Forums, to discuss the state of the FX markets after the credit crisis of recent months. Editor Caroline Allen, who chaired the discussion, wrote this report.
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Hans Stander at Henshaw Capital Partners, talks of "farmers" and "hunters" in African investment, and how that categorisation applies to the first Pan-African private equity fund of funds.
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June
A wave of regulation following the initial impact of the global financial crisis has targeted the alternative investment sector, and hedge funds in particular. The industry is mobilising to influence and deflect some of the measures. Caroline Allen reports
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The credit crisis has been followed by stock market downturns and a global economic slowdown. With credit spreads at historic highs and interest rates at record lows, investors are faced with some serious challenges but also some opportunities, writes James Norris
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The maturing shari'a compliant sector is now exploring more complex products, including hedge fund strategies.
Florence Eid explains how providers are tackling the challenge
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Employers may be hoping for an end to the turmoil in their balance sheets, but the problem of retaining and motivating staff is a continuing headache, writes James Norris
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Can stress testing and scenario analysis make a difference, asks Jem Tugwell, Vice President, Investment Manager at Odyssey Financial Technologies
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The asset management industry must embrace a new 'real world' risk model that treats risk in terms of loss, understands the difference between low correlation and effective diversification, and emphasises the importance of the near term over the long run, says Nick Macleod at Ermitage
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The credit default swap market has been at the centre of some of the biggest market traumas over the past year. Craig MacDonald looks at when the market will rebound and if recent clearing house initiatives could remove the cloud over its head
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Islamic alternative investment products have grown gradually in the recent past. Among these alternatives, hedge funds have proven to be the weakest link. Dr Humayon Dar investigates why hedge funds are so weak in this region and what alternative investment products are popular.
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The Bear Stearns collapse and subsequent acquisition by J. P. Morgan seemed a good fit for both firms at the time, both by design and by necessity. Craig MacDonald speaks to Andrew Jamieson about the integration.
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May
An appetite for risk in Eastern Europe
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April
Surging Asian equity markets in the second quarter of 2009 contributed to the strongest performance in nearly a decade for Asia-focused hedge funds.
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March
The Brazil based hedge fund manager, Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo was instrumental in the launch of hedge funds in Brazil. Ian Hall speaks to the fund about its high profile joint venture with Credit Suisse, how the fund has preformed and its role in Brazil.
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In the second in the series of isf IT road test features, Ian Hall speaks to EquiLend, Pirum and Loanet about the post-trade and trading services they provide. Using actual user feedback, we ask the hard questions.
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Sifting through the financial media, you will be hard pressed to not find an article relating to hedge fund losses, redemptions and possible regulation. But to gauge true state of this industry, you must speak to the ones who track the funds. Ian Hall speaks to leading hedge fund industry data provider, Hedge Fund Research's President, Kenneth Heinz about his outlook for the hedge fund industry and what the numbers really say.
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Removing mystery to realise returns
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The dollar is likely to remain the main beneficiary of the crises affecting the euro and the yen, reclaiming its status as a safe haven currency, writes James Norris
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Investors in the Middle East are coming to terms with plunging real estate markets, but many believe the shakeout will have a long term benefit of ridding the sector of an overly speculative element. Caroline Allen reports