Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
North Sound Motion Delivers Coup de Grace to Afplats Chairman
By Staff WriterLONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--North Sound Capital, a Greenwich-based hedge fund, has led a shareholders' revolt delivering the coup de grace to the non-executive chairman of African Platinum (Afplats), a small-cap mining exploration company listed on the Alternative Investment Market. At an extraordinary shareholders meeting Tuesday [July 25], shareholders voted to oust Charles...
July 31, 2006
Man Group Buys Controlling Stake in Eurex U.S.LONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--Man Group, the world's biggest hedge fund operator and a major futures broker, is buying 70% of Eurex's controlling stake in the U.S. Futures Exchange, currently known as Eurex US. It will pay $23.2 million in cash for the approximate 56% stake in USFE and inject $35 million in...
July 27, 2006
Protect Human Capital For Venture Capital And Private Equity FirmsSweat equity may be the financing vehicle of choice in most communities, but more and more professional insurance advisors are helping venture capital firms and ...
July 27, 2006
Protect Human Capital For Venture Capital And Private Equity FirmsSweat equity may be the financing vehicle of choice in most communities, but more and more professional insurance advisors are helping venture capital firms and ...
July 27, 2006
Protect Human Capital For Venture Capital And Private Equity FirmsSweat equity may be the financing vehicle of choice in most communities, but more and more professional insurance advisors are helping venture capital firms and ...
July 27, 2006
Protect Human Capital For Venture Capital And Private Equity FirmsSweat equity may be the financing vehicle of choice in most communities, but more and more professional insurance advisors are helping venture capital firms and ...
July 26, 2006
Going South for Alternative InvestmentsIn 2003, Barry Strudwick, a financial advisor based in Baltimore, Maryland, put together a partnership of 10 of his clients and bought a $1.75 million, 350-acre swath of land on the Pacific coastline of Costa Rica.