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FletcherBennett Group, a hedge fund consulting firm, and Invus Financial Advisors, an alternative investment manager in New York, have formed a joint venture to launch a fund of hedge funds (FoHF).
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GWM Institutional, a division of multi-family office GWM Group, has ventured into the hedge fund space with the launch of its first Ucits product.
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F Squared Investments, an investment management boutique, is targeting high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, particularly family offices, with its AlphaSector Indexes, a U.S. equity solution that invests solely in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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The ETF Store has formed a new asset management firm, Impetus Capital Management, to provide subadvisory services to high-net-worth individuals, institutional investors, and third-party investment advisors.
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Equinox Fund Management is targeting high-net-worth individuals, RIAs, and family offices to invest in its recently launched MutualHedge Frontier Legends Fund, a mutual fund with exposure to an actively managed portfolio of multiple managed futures.
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Hatteras Funds has named Brian Jacobs chief executive officer to work alongside founder and former CEO David Perkins.
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OM Investment Management, an investment and wealth advisory firm, has launched a hedge fund, OM Global Investment Fund.
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Rothschild has brought on an additional two bankers from UBS.
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Bill O’Neill, cio at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, is cautioning clients on equities as European investor confidence reaches lows not seen since last June.
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Royal Bank of Scotland’s Indian private banking arm has named Leena Gidwani as market head of its Western region.
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German private bank Berenberg Bank has unveiled an investment banking unit to tap into the Austrian and eastern European bond markets.
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Krusen Capital Management, a New York-based investment advisor to LionHedge Platform, a single and multimanager hedge fund and private equity platform, is targeting family offices, independent wealth advisers and high-net-worth individuals by charging low fees for access to top tier managers, Charlie Krusen, ceo, told PAM.
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Performance Trust Investment Advisors, a fixed-income investment manager subsidiary of Performance Trust Capital Partners, is looking to market its asset- backed securities portfolio to family offices, high-net-worth individuals and registered investment advisors (RIAs).
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GJ Investment Funds, an emerging manager from Flemington, N.J., is looking to target the high-net-worth and institutional segments.
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Prudential Capital Partners has completed fundraising for its middle-market mezzanine fund, dubbed Prudential Capital Partners III, and is targeting family offices to invest in it.
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Zug, Switzerland-based Anthea Art Investments will launch the Anthea 1 Contemporary Art Investment Fund in May—the first closed-end art fund to be authorized by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority.
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Orre & Nyberg Capital, a Stockholm-based hedge fund, is planning to launch a short-term directional trading fund, Radar Trading, to be managed by co-founder Jonas Nyberg.
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Encore Enterprises, a Dallas firm that buys, manages, finances and sells real estate, is launching the Encore Opportunities Fund II real estate fund.
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Royal Bank of Canada and Société Générale are seeing strong interest in principal-protected notes and call options linked to baskets of hedge funds.
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Madeleine Frowein, former head of marketing and business development at Ibis Management, has formed GAIA International, a third party marketing firm in New York.
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QTR Invest, an Amsterdam-based quant startup, has begun marketing its fund, focusing on high-net-worth money.
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San Diego-based Equity Based Services (EBS), a private equity firm that focuses on self-storage commercial real estate projects, has closed its fourth private equity fund at $8.35 million and is now investing.
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Michael Ruscetta, former co-head of Goldman Sachs' special-situations group in Toronto and senior staffer at Amaranth Advisors, has founded RCM Partners and launched its maiden hedge fund.
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Gene Fisch and Archana Sivadasan have co-founded FS Capital and are preparing to launch its maiden fund on Jan. 1.
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Stonehenge Capital Management, a Miami-based alternatives firm that offers access to its strategies via managed accounts, is preparing to launch a pooled fund with access to three different strategies.
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Zulauf Asset Management, a Zug, Switzerland-based hedge fund boutique, is preparing to become two separate shops.
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Hedge fund managers are seeing Asia-Pacific high-net-worth investors putting their money to work more readily than their U.S. and European counterparts and are focusing their marketing efforts on the region.
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South Korean asset manager Mirae Global Investments has set up shop in the U.S. and is considering launching mutual funds investing in Asia that will target ultra-high-net-worth individuals, said Timothy Hill, head of North American sales.
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Entertainment Capital Advisors (ECA) has launched in London to advise families looking to acquire companies in the entertainment sector, capturing the family office film financing trend.