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May 21, 2013
Rubicon, GLG and SAC alumni are launching their own funds, and market watchers say it is finally getting a little easier for experienced managers to get new businesses off the ground.
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January 23, 2013
Unlike the activist fund, the latest pool will target companies already planning strategic changes.
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January 17, 2013
Several veterans of Steve Cohen's firm are launching funds this year, and some have managed to start with significant assets despite the controversy surrounding their alma mater.
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January 13, 2010
Stuart Weisbrod, founder of the now-closed Merlin BioMed Group, recently formed Iguana Healthcare Partners and launched a long/short fund on Jan. 1.
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January 13, 2010
MM Capital, a New York-based volatility arbitrage manager, is going after European money and plans to launch a Ucits-authorised fund.
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January 12, 2010
DnB NOR Asset Management, Norway's largest investment management firm, has decided to make its first single-manager hedge funds comply with the Ucits directive.
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January 12, 2010
Managed futures shop Clearbrook Investments, looking to significantly increase its domestic investor base, is planning to launch an onshore version of its flagship Pan Am Fund and accept more capital via managed accounts.
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January 11, 2010
Tano Capital, the $250 million hedge fund and private equity firm founded by Charles Johnson, former co-president of Franklin Templeton Investments, has launched the Tano Global Hard Assets Fund.
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January 11, 2010
Arrow Capital Management, a $425 million event-driven shop in New York, has tapped Ivan Wanat as director of business development, a newly created position.
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January 08, 2010
Sandalwood Securities, the Roseland, N.J.-based $1 billion credit fund of funds, recently hired Mihir Meswani, formerly the director of public market managers at the $8 billion Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as part of a push to attract institutional clients.
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January 07, 2010
Miami-based Stonehenge Capital Management has launched its first pooled funds, giving investors access to a foreign-exchange strategy that was until now only available via managed accounts.
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January 06, 2010
Core Capital Management, a $50 million fund of funds firm based in Chicago, is preparing to launch its third fund, which will invest in hedge funds that profit from volatility.
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January 06, 2010
Former SAC Capital Management Portfolio Manager John Liu is looking to hire a China specialist to manage the second fund from his startup hedge fund firm, Han Capital Management
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January 05, 2010
Zug-based Anthea Art Investments will launch the Anthea 1 Contemporary Art Investment Fund in May, the first closed-end art fund to be authorised by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority.
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January 04, 2010
Orre & Nyberg Capital, the Stockholm-based hedge fund that rocketed to 123% returns last year in Radar, its flagship fundamental long-short equity fund, is contemplating the launch of multiple new funds.