Recent Hedge Fund Launches and Closings

Toscafund Launching UCITS III Fund this Month

Hedge fund Toscafund will be launching a UCITS III version of its mid-cap fund later this month. According to a recent Reuters article, the firm’s...

Farallon Loses Some Managers, Gains Others

Four senior stock managers at Farallon Capital Management have recently announced their departure from the hedge fund manager. According to Bloomberg,...

Hedge Fund Trends: Launches Outpace Liquidations, Incentive Fees Decline

For the first time since the financial crisis began, hedge fund launches exceeded hedge fund liquidations during the fourth quarter of 2009, according...

Top Goldman Hedge Fund Manager Starting Own Fund

Pierre-Henri Flamand, head of Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies, is leaving Goldman to start his own hedge fund, according to Bloomberg. Mr. Flamand...

Nevsky Capital to wind-down flagship Emerging Markets hedge fund

Nevsky Capital revealed to investors last week that it was going to close down its flagship $3 billion Nevksy fund in 12 months because its lead managers...

New Fund from Former D.E. Shaw and Satellite Pair

Scott Henkin, a former portfolio manager at D.E. Shaw & Co., has joined forced with Gabriel Nechamkin, co-founder of now-defunct Satellite Asset Management,...

Pirate Capital founder Tom Hudson launches Doubloon Capital LLC

Tom Hudson – well-known shareholder activist investor and founder of Pirate Capital - is gathering money to start new a new firm called Doubloon Capital...

Polygon Investment Partners veterans launch event-driven focused Black’s Link Capital Ltd

A team of seven former Polygon Investment Partners traders have launched Hong Kong-based Black’s Link Capital Ltd. The new firm is set to launch an...

Cheyne Capital plans Merger Arbitrage UCITS Fund

Cheyne Capital — a UK-based hedge fund firm — is planning a UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) fund that will...

Och-Ziff veteran Frank Yu launches Themes Investment Management

Frank Yu, a veteran of Och-Ziff Capital Management, has launched Themes Investment Partners, a new private equity firm that will concentrate on investment...

Nikko Asset Management to launch Green Fund with World Bank

Nikko Asset Management has recently announced its intentions to launch the Nikko AM World Bank Green Fund. The asset management firm, one of the largest...

Munsun Asset Management launches Munsun China Opportunity hedge fund

Munsun Asset Management, a China-based investment management firm, completed the launch of its first hedge fund on February 11th. The firm’s new Munsun...

Phibro LLC’s Andrew Hall launches Astenbeck Capital Management

CEO of Phibro LLC, Andrew Hall, has formed a new hedge fund group, Astenbeck Capital Management, to oversee outside funds. According to the Financial...

Quotient Investors Unveils New ESG Strategy

Managing Partners André Bertolotti and Julia Peter-Kerr of Quotient Investors sat down with Brandon Nickerson, director, to speak about their new fund...

D.E. Shaw & Co launches unit to invest in Distressed Side Pockets

Multi-strategy hedge fund manager D.E. Shaw launched a Portfolio Acquisitions Unit late last year to take advantage of other hedge fund manager’s desires...

Orchard Capital Partners launches Orchard Gemini

Teall Edds and Stuart Wilson’s Orchard Capital Partners, which spun-off from Stark Investments in late late 2009, launched the Orchard Gemini fund last...

Nautical Capital Management Unveils New Commodity-Based Strategies

Nautical Capital Management has recently announced the launch of its new commodities-based absolute returns strategies. According to the company, the...

Castle Hill Asset Management spins-off from Ignis and launches first Hedge Fund

Managers from Ignis Investment Management spun-off from the UK manager this month to form Castle Hill Asset Management. Castle Hill has concurrently...

Hornstein Partners Fund launches with $10 million

Edward Hornstein LLC launched its flagship hedge fund last month with approximately $10 million in assets under management, according to HedgeFund.net....

BlueCrest Capital Management to close off BlueTrend Fund to new investors

BlueCrest Capital Management LLP is planning on closing its $9 billion BlueTrend hedge fund to new investors if it surpasses $10 billion. According...


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