Alternative Market Briefing
Man Investments opens office in the Netherlands
Crosby`s Apollo launch no fix as assets at Forsyth have tumbled
Fund profile – Horizons Global Contrarian, the `old school` hedge fund, made 6.6% in October
Institutions – LCP: Pension schemes to continue hedge fund exposure in the long term
Activist News – HF Davidson Kempner launches proxy fight to oust Sun-Times Media Group board, CEO
… And Finally – New York dog (!) drives van into coffee house
From Kirsten Bischoff, Opalesque New York: One firm looking to take advantage of the opportunities in the credit space is Onex Credit Partners (OCP), who, in December 2007, launched its second strategy, the OCP Senior Credit Strategy.
The Strategy, which is opened to outside investors, launched with $80m in assets, and Opalesque recently had a chance to speak with Sean Duff of OCP about the credit environment, the Strategy and the importance of permanent capital in meeting investment goals, which are targeted for a two-to-three-year time frame.
The OCP Senior Credit Strategy is managed by Michael Gelblat and Stuart Kovensky, who originally partnered in 2001 at John A.
BlueAlpha rolls out agricultural commodity trading strategy into a new fund, the PolarStar FundPortfolio manager Uys Meyer told Opalesque about BlueAlpha’s new launch.
BlueAlpha Investment Management rolled its agricultural commodity trading strategy into a new fund, the PolarStar Fund, last month with AUM of $9m.
Closures – Amsterdam`s Go Capital A.M. closes down hedge fund as AUM halved, plans new launch for January 09Opalesque received news from Peter Vermeulen, editor of www.inveztor.nl, of another Dutch hedge fund’s closure.
On November 17, Amsterdam based Go Capital Asset Management decided to close down the Global Opportunities hedge fund (Source).
Poll shows that most think there is a future for FoHFs, but perhaps if they came in a different formatBy Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque London: A poll on the future of funds of hedge funds was conducted at the GAIM conference on Funds of Funds in Geneva last week.
Daniel Penseyres, managing partner at Geneva-based Bedrock Alternative Asset Management, who moderated the electronic polling panel, remarked on his surprise by the relative optimism of the conference speakers, despite the expectation that AUM and revenues for the industry would fall sharply.
This article was authored by Rolf Majcen, Managing Director FTC Capital GmbH, Vienna, Austria, www.ftc.at.
Without a doubt, Cayman Islands has become the world’s most important hedge fund domicile but also several European jurisdictions, in particular Gibraltar, provide the services, infrastructure and operational flexibility which the international investor demands, within the framework of clear and carefully enforced legal guidelines, that are in tune with the requirements of the modern hedge funds industry.
Whilst the “registered investment fund” (Section 4 (3) of the Mutual Funds Law) is the most common structure that is used for setting up an alternative investment fund in the Cayman Islands, the “Experienced Investor Fund” (EIF) is Gibraltar’s premier vehicle for alternative investment strategies.
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How BRIC became Brazil:
Brazil-based hedge fund managers, fund of funds and family office believe the country is now getting ahead of the pack compared to its emerging market peers.
Brazil has enough foreign reserves to pay down all the public foreign debt. This is the first time the country is in such a condition.
In the last crisis in 1998, China was the only country which had sound fundamentals and they could maneuver their monetary policy to keep the country growing, despite the fact that all of the economies in the region were going down by 10% or 15% in GDP. Managers believe that this time Brazil has exactly the same characteristics.
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