Investors

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  Maryland State could double allocation with Albourne

  02 Feb 2012

• Ohio Highway Patrol to offer Pinnacle $10m natural resources allocation

  02 Feb 2012

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  UK’s Camden shortlists five for March

  02 Feb 2012

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  Multi-strategy manager Arrowhawk closure hits Kentucky Retirement

  02 Feb 2012

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  Global macro implementation starts at CalSTRS

  02 Feb 2012

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  New York City swells commitment to minority firms

  02 Feb 2012

• Permal, EnTrust to manage Massachusetts water funds

  02 Feb 2012

• Trafalgar House ups macro to protect against volatility

  02 Feb 2012

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  Kodak de-risks with liquid SMART Alpha seeding

  02 Feb 2012

• Boston restarts FoHF search for $60m mandate

  02 Feb 2012

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  Standard Pacific and Indus make it onto Michigan State’s roster

  02 Feb 2012

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  Illinois Teachers adds $150m allocation to Pine River

  02 Feb 2012

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  Sacramento goes direct with Grosvenor

  02 Feb 2012

• Finland’s Ilmarinen set to top up hedge fund holdings to former level

  02 Feb 2012

• Nippon Life keeps portfolio stable

  02 Feb 2012

• Korea Teachers prepares $600m in direct allocations

  02 Feb 2012

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  TfL looks to expand alternatives book

  02 Feb 2012

News

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  Deutsche, FRM and IMQubator all pitch stakes in the race to discover tomorrow’s talent

  02 Feb 2012

• Private Advisors readies first registered investment company FoHF

  02 Feb 2012

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  Stenham continues to favour global macro strategies

  02 Feb 2012

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  Hermes BPK Partners unveils new CTA-focused managed account platform

  02 Feb 2012

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  FRM takes global hedge funds to Brazil with Itajubá venture

  02 Feb 2012

• SEC files civil injunction against Kapur’s ThinkStrategy Capital

  02 Feb 2012

• Cantor absorbs Cadogan under its wing

  02 Feb 2012

• Goldman decides to shutter London-listed FoHF vehicle

  02 Feb 2012

Industry Analysis

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  Inflows hit $17bn in 2011 as investors shelter from market turbulence

  02 Feb 2012

  Annual mandate tally shows snapshot of increasing investor appetite, says InvestHedge

Profiles

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  San Bernardino mixes FoHFs and funds for tailored alpha overlay

  02 Feb 2012

  Alternatives are a core strategy to meet future pension benefits at SBCERA, which at 65 is not yet ready to retire

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  Alternative Investment Group plans to keep on the same tack

  02 Feb 2012

  At a time of great uncertainty, many consultants see the 15-year old Alternative Investment Group as something of a ‘safe’ choice

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  THEAM sets up drawing board as investors’ architect

  02 Feb 2012

  BNP Paribas Investment Partners launches strategic foray into growing investment solutions market

Performance

• RIC-Watch: SkyBridge Multi-Adviser Hedge Fund Portfolios

  02 Feb 2012

• Stalwart GMS funds battle to stay above water in 2011 after extremely tough final quarter

  02 Feb 2012

• Volatility in the eurozone leads to poor returns in equities

  02 Feb 2012

• Aurora registers stake in Tze’s Azentus, contains fallout in December

  02 Feb 2012

• Asia Pacific suffers most in a difficult year

  02 Feb 2012

Comment

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  FoHF consolidation: buy-out or lift-out?

  02 Feb 2012

  If investors are no longer buying products with verifiable track records, just how are investors supposed to know how to pick a good adviser?

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  Should investors send their dragons back to their lairs?

  02 Feb 2012

  The ability of hedge fund dragons to vaporise this year may leave institutional investors sceptical of the long term power of the magic of the dragons

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  Will 2012 be better? It needs to be

  02 Feb 2012

  Unlike in late 2008 – there is not (yet) any wide-scale sense that the industry is facing an impending tidal wave of redemptions

Mandates

• Institutional mandates: December 2011

  02 Feb 2012

  Guide to current hedge fund mandates

Data

• InvestHedge league tables January 2012

  02 Feb 2012

• Top 10 funds by strategy over the past 3 months

  02 Feb 2012