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S&P Hedge Fund Index Ends Flat Year on an Up Note
By Staff WriterNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Equity markets ended 2004 with a bang, but the noise provoked little more than a yawn from sleepy hedge fund strategies in the Standard & Poor's Hedge Fund Index. Despite returns for managed futures strategy of over 10% and U.S. long/short equity strategy returns over 6% for the...
January 04, 2005
Merrill Lynch Launches Registered FundNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Merrill Lynch & Co. has filed plans to offer its first hedge fund product to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Managed through ML's Investment Managers unit, the new Multi-Strategy Hedge Opportunities LLC offering is a fund of hedge funds with a minimum initial investment of...
January 04, 2005
Roye to Address MFA Seminar on Sound PracticesWASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--The director of the division of investment management for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul F. Roye, will address a Managed Funds Association seminar in New York on Jan. 12. This is the first in a series of sound-practices seminars the MFA has planned in order to educate its...
January 04, 2005
Guernsey Fund Totals Continue GrowthLONDON (HedgeWorld.com)--The number of funds in Guernsey grew by 15.5% during the last year, according to survey figures released by Fitzrovia International plc. The research company found that assets in funds domiciled in Guernsey total US$24.5 billion. Of that amount hedge funds account for US$16.5 billion, spread among 263 different...
January 03, 2005
BISYS Acquires Rothstein Kass Fund Administration BusinessNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--Rothstein Kass is selling RK Consulting, its fund administration affiliate with clients that include hedge funds, funds of funds and private equity funds,...
January 03, 2005
Fund Manager Goldstein Files Suit Against SECNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--The much-anticipated first lawsuit stemming from the Securities and Exchange Commission hedge fund regulation has been filed, with the claim that the agency...
January 03, 2005
November a Winner in Van IndexNASHVILLE, Tenn. (HedgeWorld.com)--Hedge funds had their best month of 2004 in November by the reckoning of the Van Global Hedge Fund Index, which gained 2.8%...
January 03, 2005
Tremont Studying Products with Longer Lock-UpsRYE, N.Y. (HedgeWorld.com)--Industry participants and observers expect that there will be many U.S.-based hedge fund managers who will take advantage of the exemption from the...