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Money managers under the microscope
Morning Line-Up: Nikko buys DBS AM; US funds eye eurozone debt
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere:
US funds boost holdings in shaky European debt - Reuters
Hedge funds up 1.8 percent in October - HedgeWeek
Nikko AM to acquire DBS Asset Management - HedgeWeek
Cavendish fund inflows soar - Fund Strategy
2011 pivotal year for asset management industry says Skandia - Fund Strategy
Morning Line-Up: Madoff trustee sues HSBC; Allsopp returns to Africa
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere:
Fund tracker EPFR Global sold to Informa - Reuters
Madoff trustee sues HSBC for $9 billion in US court - Reuters
Allsopp tries again with Insparo Africa fund- FTfm
UCITS attract 46 bln euros in inflows for Q3 - HedgeWeek
HK official dismisses reports of hot money inflows - Reuters
In Stamford, the Diamondback Special is still on the menu
The hedge fund community is still shaken up over the FBI raids in Stamford, New York and Boston last week — but now that the excitement has died down, and hedge funds Level Global Investors and Diamondback Capital Mangement have said they are not “targets” of the investigation, will life ever be the same?
Some say the hedge funds have a long road ahead of them as they will have to fight against the reputation damage from the raids as they try to return to business as usual. But it appears they will have the support of their friends nearby:
Highbridge loves JPMorgan, but doesn’t want to move in
Glenn Dubin, co-founder of $27 billion hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management, says he feels lucky that when he chose to partner with a bank it happened to be JPMorgan Chase & Co. The bank emerged from the crisis as the strongest bank in the world, while hedge funds that had been connected to Lehman Brothers were left struggling.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Hedge Funds 2010 conference in New York on Thursday, Dubin said that he thinks JPMorgan is a great partner, but that Highbridge still values its independence and would never move from its offices on West 57th Street into the bank’s glitzy Park Avenue headquarters.
Morning Line-Up: Bluecrest, Pershing, Gartmore
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere:
California hedge fund manager settles SEC probe – Reuters
Hedge funds tapped rescue program – WSJ
Pershing Square funds up 3.5-4.9 pct in Q3 – WSJ
Gartmore tells 35 staff likely to lose jobs – source – Reuters
Senior staff exit hedge fund firm Bluecrest – source – Reuters
China’s first gold fund to boost demand for gold – Gold Prices
Turcan Connell launches absolute return fund – Hedgeweek
Morning Line-Up: CDS, TCI, Balfour
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere:
Hedge funds bet against euro, shirk CDS, in crisis – Reuters
Massachusetts regulator subpoenas Guidepoint Global – Reuters
TCI accounts reveal impact of financial crisis – FT
Hedge funds flock back to Asia – WSJ
Hedging breakdown drives investors to managed futures funds – WSJ
Balfour to launch £1 bln infrastructure fund – FT
New wave of hedge fund start-ups find life is tough – Reuters
What it takes to build a hedge fund
Fledgling hedge fund managers should expect sleepless nights, less time with their families, and intense competition for capital, as the industry has grown even more competitive after the financial crisis, according to Lars Kroijer, a former hedge fund manager who says he doesn’t think he would run a fund again.
Kroijer, who writes about his six years at the helm of the $1 billion London-based hedge fund Holte Capital in the recently published ”Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager” told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that new hedge fund managers are fighting an uphill battle to get enough capital to start their businesses, and you couldn’t start a hedge fund today with just three guys as he did in 2002.
Man and Lion
Man Group shares were down this morning after last night’s news that AHL dropped 1.76 pct last week, taking losses since Nov 1 to nearly 4 percent. Broker Oriel estimates this leaves AHL 8 percent off its high-water mark.
“November’s performance will disappoint those who expected AHL to string together a good run of investment returns. The company have blamed central bank interventions since the credit crisis for AHL’s poor returns,” Oriel said.
Morning Line-Up: Gartmore, Lehman/Nortel case, dairy bid, Ireland
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere:
Gartmore mystery stake-builder- FT
Lehman/Nortel pension UK court case – Reuters
Morning Line-up: CoE Vs News Corp, raided hedge funds, bonuses
News and views on the asset management industry from Reuters and elsewhere
Church of England against News Corp’s BSkyB takeover- FT
