Five Biggest Managers from Alpha’s Europe Hedge Fund 50

NEW YORK January 25, 2006 -- Barclays Global Investors takes top honors as Europe’s biggest hedge fund manager, according to a new ranking published by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine. In Alpha’s Europe Hedge Fund 50, our third annual ranking of Europe’s biggest single-manager hedge fund families by assets, BGI moves up from fourth place in 2005 to No. 1 this year, with $13.0 billion in assets under management. The Alpha survey, released today in the magazine’s January/February issue, includes 50 firms — double the number in the previous year’s ranking.

Last year’s No. 1 managers, GLG Partners and Vega Asset Management, which tied with $11.1 billion in 2005, come in third and fourth, respectively, this year, with $11.1 billion and $10.6 billion in capital. New entrants to the list include HSBC at No. 5, with a total of $9.0 billion (which includes Sinopia Asset Management, with $8.5 billion, and Halbis Partners, with $500 million) and the Children’s Investment Fund Management U.K. at No. 15, with $5.0 billion in assets. The combined assets managed by the members of the 2006 Europe Hedge Fund 50 totaled $197.8 billion as of September 30, 2005.

Here are the five biggest managers from Alpha’s Europe Hedge Fund 50.

Ordered: Rank, Firm, Total capital ($ millions)
1, Barclays Global Investors, $13,047
2, Man Investment, $11,900
3, GLG Partners, $11,100
4, Vega Asset Management, $10,600
5, HSBC, $9,048

Alpha’s Europe Hedge Fund 50 provides each manager’s total assets under management as of September 30, 2005. These figures exclude funds of hedge funds, traditional long-only funds, dynamic money market funds and certain other types of assets. More details on the methodology can be found at www.institutionalinvestor.com/alpha

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