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For 15 years through 2005, Bill Miller’s investments handily beat stock market averages. But for the last two years, the market has handily pulverized him.
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The Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund and private equity firm, reported a quarterly loss on Thursday.
The chief executive of Citigroup, Vikram S. Pandit, finds himself in the position of having to restructure or make changes at the hedge fund he co-founded and that Citigroup purchased.
Many of the wealthiest hedge fund managers are lining up behind a seemingly unlikely choice in the presidential race.
International Equine Acquisitions Holdings is applying the lucrative lessons its founders learned on Wall Street to an industry that has proved inscrutable to many other successful businessmen.
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Newly-formed hedge fund shop Insparo Asset Management this week raised a $125 million fund to invest in Africa, which has become the favored new frontier for hedge fund and private equity managers alike.
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Hedge funds stormed back in April, returning almost 2% on average, according to HedgeFund.net.
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Investors aren’t the only ones heading for the doors at GLG Partners.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a settled civil action against Quogue Capital and Wayne Rothbaum, Quogue's managing member and owner.
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Pfäffikon, Switzerland-based currency specialist Quaesta Capital this month is unveiling a foreign exchange volatility fund, V-Pro.
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Sphinx Capital Corp, a British Virgin Islands-based private equity shop, is currently marketing a $100 million turnaround buyout fund, Sphinx Turnaround Fund, to invest in small and medium enterprises in Egypt.
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Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire Goodman Property Investors from the Goodman Group for an initial cash consideration of some GBP89m, boosting the assets under management of its specialist property investment division Aberdeen Property Investors by more than 42 per cent to around EUR30bn.
Three specialist fund administration firms have come together under the umbrella of Phoenix Fund Services to service the increasing number of UK-based managers running offshore traditional and hedge funds alongside their UK onshore platforms.
Denver, Colorado-based fund service provider Alps Fund Services has launched the AVS Listed Private Equity Portfolio for use by insurance companies in their variable insurance products, sub-advised by Red Rocks Capital, an investment adviser also from Denver that specialises in private equity products.
Client expectations of their wealth managers have changed significantly over the past decade, with the industry adapting product and service suites for a new generation of wealth creators.
Hedge funds gained on average 2.28 per cent in April, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based BarclayHedge, which reported that 16 of its 18 hedge fund sub-indices enjoyed positive returns for the month.
The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley Real Estate are the world's largest private equity real estate firms, according to the PERE 30, a new ranking of private equity real estate firms produced by Private Equity Real Estate magazine, part of the PEI Media group.
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