Hedge funds
Louisiana Teachers to look for first hedge fund consultant
Louisiana Teachers' Retirement System next month will search for its first hedge fund consultant.
February 08, 2012 | 11:39 am
New Mexico Investment Council pares hedge funds of funds
New Mexico State Investment Council has “substantially completed” the consolidation of its hedge fund-of-funds portfolio, whittling it down 31% to $711.2 million.
February 07, 2012 | 04:08 pm
Spinner Asset Management to open long/short equity hedge fund to outsiders
Spinner Asset Management will open its second long/short equity hedge fund, Clover Street Fund, to outside investors on March 1.
February 07, 2012 | 02:41 pm
Hedge funds underestimating EU's will to force Greek losses
Hedge funds seeking to wring profits from a Greek debt restructuring are underestimating the will of policymakers to impose losses on them, according to investors who say trying to beat the...
February 07, 2012 | 10:42 am
Top 200 pension funds still carrying torch for alternatives
U.S. pension fund investors' love affair with alternatives is still alive, with investments in everything from private equity to real estate skyrocketing, Pensions & Investments' annual survey ...
February 06, 2012
CQS starts and immediately ‘soft closes' new fund
CQS (UK) launched its latest fund, CQS ABS Alpha Fund, with $140 million of assets and immediately “soft closed” the fund to new investors.
February 06, 2012 | 03:54 pm
Finisterre Capital to open long/short equity fund to outside investors
Finisterre Capital, a specialist emerging markets equity and debt hedge fund manager, announced Monday that it will open its first dedicated long/short equity fund to outside investors in the second...
February 06, 2012 | 01:43 pm
Institutional investors set to dump poor hedge fund performers
Institutional investors will be sharpening their scalpels in 2012, cutting managers that failed to provide what they promised: absolute return.
February 06, 2012
UTIMCO trustee urges endowment to hold gold hedge
Kyle Bass, the Dallas hedge fund manager, urged overseers of Texas' state university endowment, the University of Texas Investment Management Co., to stick with a $1 billion investment in gold...
February 03, 2012 | 09:54 am
North Carolina Retirement Systems to increase hedge fund investments
North Carolina Retirement Systems, Raleigh, will be searching for hedge fund managers in which to invest billions of dollars in new mandates.
February 03, 2012 | 04:06 pm
Eager Davis: Manager hiring volume flat; alts and real estate gain
U.S. institutional investment manager hires were down a mere 0.5% in 2011, but total dollars placed increased by 13%, with alternatives and real estate seeing the largest jumps, according to a report ...
February 03, 2012 | 04:01 pm
Legg Mason debuts Permal fixed-income hedge fund of funds
Legg Mason launched the Permal Hedge Fund Strategies Fund, a fixed-income hedge fund of funds, subadvised by its subsidiary, Permal Group.
February 03, 2012 | 03:24 pm
Colorado Fire & Police calls on Coatue Management for long/short equity
Colorado Fire & Police Pension Association, Greenwood Village, invested $34.5 million in a long/short equity hedge strategy managed by Coatue Management.
February 02, 2012 | 04:07 pm
Cook County Retirement Board picks 3 for hedge funds of funds
Cook County Retirement Board hired Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Diversified Global Asset Management and The Rock Creek Group to run three hedge fund-of-funds portfolios comprising 9% of...
February 02, 2012 | 01:47 pm
PEAK6 Advisors chooses UBS veteran as CEO-CIO
Joseph Scoby was named CEO and chief investment officer of PEAK6 Advisors, the investment management unit of PEAK6 Investments.