News

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  Man Group starts fightback with AHL and FRM moves

  24 May 2012

• New credit launches line up as JPM loss roils volatile markets

  24 May 2012

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  Frontier EM specialist Insparo targets new markets with hiring of BlueBay man Walsh

  24 May 2012

• Tiber rolls out successful proprietary trading strategies to investors

  24 May 2012

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  Financials specialist Tenax launches €250m credit vehicle run by former BofA man Guy

  24 May 2012

• Pictet builds fund range with Agora and Kronos equity vehicles

  24 May 2012

Features

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  Loan manager Avoca spreads its wings with moves into credit and convertibles

  24 May 2012

  Fast-growing but low-profile €6 billion loan manager Avoca has embarked on a major drive to diversify its asset management platform with a series of high-level hires and additions to expand the business into the related areas of long/short credit funds, convertibles and structured credit

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  Business as usual for rebranded CapeView

  24 May 2012

  Ex-Trafalgar Asset Managers founder Theo Phanos and his team are exploiting opportunities, dislocations and synergies with their focus on European credit and long/short equity through the firm’s well-performing Recovery and Azri vehicles

Industry Analysis

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  French platform Emergence seeds Eiffel IG credit fund, eyes more investments in 2012

  24 May 2012

  Government-sponsored initiative to develop the asset management industry in France is attracting attention from other countries too, with the seeder already receiving some 80 applications from alternative investment managers in France

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  Challenging time for administrators in a changing hedge fund landscape

  24 May 2012

  Administrators are facing widespread challenges and pressures at a time of slow growth in the hedge fund industry and increasing demands on administration providers from regulators, managers and investors

Profiles

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  Major seed commitment from Grosvenor takes Nightscape Capital to the next level

  24 May 2012

  Ex-Sandelman and Citadel manager Nick Stukas secures $75 million investment from $20 billion US fund of funds group for his well-performing credit and capital structure strategy

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  Urwick embraces high-conviction plays and low net exposure with relaunched UC global equity fund

  24 May 2012

  Long/short financials specialist Richard Urwick is building a strong track record for a reworked version of his global equity strategy, with a broader investment remit and incentives for investors to commit long-term capital

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  JP Morgan adds long/short tech strategy for experienced Europe Dynamic team

  24 May 2012

  Having hit capacity with their long-running Europe Dynamic Long Short Fund, Jon Ingram’s equity team at JP Morgan have rolled out a new long/short fund focused on European and global technology stocks

Performance

• April volatility hits long/shorts, May looks worse

  24 May 2012

• Global, EM equity managers struggle in changing markets

  24 May 2012

• Indices down a bit in April as volatility picks up

  24 May 2012

• CTAs and commodity strategies beat the retreat again in April

  24 May 2012

• Losers outweigh winners in volatile macro space

  24 May 2012

• Jabre tops fallers in a mixed bag for multi-strategy

  24 May 2012

• Mixed returns in event-driven see several stumble

  24 May 2012

• Eclectica bucks trend in flat month in credit

  24 May 2012

• Even GSA posts loss as equity market-neutral and quant funds stutter

  24 May 2012

Events

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  EuroHedge Summit 2012 report: Challenges abound as industry leaders come together in Paris

  24 May 2012

  The message coming out loud and clear from the annual EuroHedge Summit in Paris in late April was a simple and stark one: after two bad years out of the last four, the pressure is on hedge funds to deliver for investors, in what could be a pivotal time for the industry as a whole

• Keynote speaker: Persio Arida – BTG Pactual

  24 May 2012

  High-growth perspective on the world

• Keynote speaker: Kyle Bass – Hayman Capital Management

  24 May 2012

  Straight-shooter aims at best and worst

• Panel session: Transparency and hedge funds: Shifting standards to a new paradigm

  24 May 2012

  Transparency: what’s good for investors?

• Panel session: Regulation: The good, the bad and the downright stupid

  24 May 2012

  Coping with the tidal wave of new regulations

• Stream session: Start-ups, seeding and capital raising

  24 May 2012

  Securing seed capital and making it work

• Keynote speaker: Guillaume Rambourg – Verrazzano Capital

  24 May 2012

  Inside the mind of a marathon runner

• Panel session: CTAs: What is the future(s)?

  24 May 2012

  CTAs and the complexities of correlation

• Stream session: Equity market neutral and quant strategies

  24 May 2012

  The beauty of being ‘boring’ in equities

• Panel session: Credit/distressed/event – The big opportunity?

  24 May 2012

  Playing across the liquidity spectrum

• Panel: Volatility and tail-risk strategies

  24 May 2012

  Profiting from volatility and tail-risk events

• Panel session: CEOs

  24 May 2012

  CEOs: dealing with a world of change

• Panel session: Investors

  24 May 2012

  Are investors getting what they want?

• Panel session: Macro

  24 May 2012

  Macro: where next in the crisis cycle?

Comment

• Time to deliver in a make or break year for the industry

  24 May 2012

  “The hedge fund industry is like a luxury brand. We charge a premium price and that means that you have to deliver a premium product”

Data

• EuroHedge league tables – April 2012

  24 May 2012