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Moody Aldrich Partners’ Harvest Fund Makes Seed Investment In Clearance Real Estate Equity Fund
Harvest Funds Management, LLC , an affiliated company of Moody Aldrich Partners, LLC announced today, the 26th of septembre, that it will make a strategic seed investment in the Clearance Real Estate Equity Fund, LP, a hedge fund with a global mandate and European focus managed by London based Clearance Capital, LLP. The agreement provides for a capital investment by funds managed by Harvest in the Clearance strategy, and ongoing advisory supp... [more]
Friends Provident International's new mirror funds can help shelter investors from global inflationary pressures and stock market and currency volatility
The implications of rising commodity prices, geopolitical risks, strong capital inflows into emerging markets and continued significant stimulus measures in the Western economies, create an uncertain backdrop for investors. Friends Provident International (FPI) is launching three new mirror funds that can help shelter investors from global inflationary pressures and continuing stock market and currency volatility. The addition of the PIMCO GIS... [more]
The performance of multistrategy hedge fund indices whose portfolios included illiquid strategies has been extraordinarily overstated
In a new study entitled "A Suggestion for Remedying the Overstated Performance of Non-Investable Hedge Fund Indices," EDHEC-Risk Institute examines whether the liquidity crisis that followed the Lehman collapse and significantly impacted the performance of hedge fund strategies (especially the strategies exposed to credit risk) has increased excess return or not. The study compares the excess returns of non-investable indices and those of their i... [more]
Moody Aldrich Partners and Wilshire Associates launch MAP Harvest Fund seeding platform
Moody Aldrich Partners (MAP) has reached an agreement with Wilshire Funds Management, a business unit of Wilshire Associates (“Wilshire®”) to assist in the development of its open architecture hedge fund seeding platform called MAP Harvest Fund. Drawing on its thirty plus years of capital markets experience, Wilshire will assist with key aspects of the platform including investment manager and operational due diligence, risk management, separate... [more]
Impoverished retirement for millions of UK pensioners
According to new figures from Partnership millions of pensioners will have to live on less than £10k per year – and the pensions' giants are not helping, warns specialist provider. Key findings: 1. 89 % of all personal pension funds are under £50k 2. 77% of all annuity transactions for sub-£30k funds 3. 23% of pensioners face abject poverty according to Partnership 4. Just 10% taking advantage of enhanced option 5. Majority of people st... [more]
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Stock gains turn hedge fund losers into winners
Last year's hedge fund losers may be turning into winners again. Several of the largest hedge funds that ended last year deep in the red, jumped to good starts in January, giving their wealthy investors ...
Legg Mason Launches Fixed Income Fund of Hedge Funds
NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Legg Mason Global Asset Management has launched Permal Hedge Strategies Fund ('the Fund'), a fixed income focused multi-manager, multi strategy fund of hedge funds, ...
Hedge Funds Try to Profit From Greece as Banks Face Losses
Hedge funds in New York and London are trying to profit from trading Greek government bonds as European banks brace for losses from a debt swap.
Church of England Defends Investments in Hedge Funds
The Church of England has more than doubled its investment in hedge funds over the last two years, but a spokesperson said the church never puts money into the notorious industry without "rigorous ethical criteria."
Hedge funds lock horns with IMF on Greek debt
Hedge funds are taking on the powerful International Monetary Fund over its plan to slash Greece's towering debt burden as time runs out on the talks that could sway the future of Europe's single currency. ...
China’s ‘Sunshine’ Trusts Miss Hedge-Fund Slump as Assets Triple
Wealthy Chinese investors are turning to “sunshine” private trusts, the prototypes of hedge funds in the communist nation, as the property market cools, stocks slump and bank-deposit rates fail to match inflation.
Northern Trust Offers New Fund of Hedge Funds Reporting Platform
Northern Trust has enhanced its offering to Fund of Hedge Funds clients with a new reporting platform which provides clients with better, more flexible access to key data elements.
PerTrac Portfolio Enables Hedge Fund Allocators to Perfectly Model Hedge Fund Terms and Conditions in Order to ...
PerTrac, the leading provider of analytics, reporting and communications software for investment professionals, today announced the latest release of PerTrac Portfolio, a software
US hedge funds capitalise on Lehman collapse
It may sound impossible but one of the best financial investments of the past three years has been a collapsed bank. And not just any bank but Lehman Brothers, the world’s biggest bankruptcy.
