The Managed Funds Association has announced a collaborative partnership with the London's Alternative Investment Management Association.
“I wouldn’t invest in U.S. assets today, but I would buy U.S. paper,” said Sam Zell, chairman of several REITS.
“This is probably one of the most exciting times [for REITs],” said Marty Cohen, co-chairman and co-CEO of Cohen & Steers.
A hedge fund manager testified that a Hollywood private detective once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
Equity REITs posted total returns, including dividends, of 1.4%, while all REITs were down slightly at 0.42%.
The hedge fund has agreed to buy a 50% stake in the New York-based credit specialist fund manager Ore Hill Partners.
The London hedge fund manager projects net management fee income to grow 15% from the year-ago period.
Assets managed in nearly 10,000 hedge funds totaled $2.16 trillion as of Dec. 31, estimated researchers at Credit Agricole Structured Asset Management in a new report.
In a period of market volatility and anxiety, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment firm is preparing to expand.
Hedge funds — facing forced margin calls and investment redemptions — are selling off wide swaths of their private-equity-type investments in search of cold hard cash.
One William Street Capital was founded by David Scherr, who worked for Lehman for 21 years.
During last year's fourth quarter, 288 new funds were launched and 154 funds were liquidated, according to HFR.
Carlyle group's David Rubenstein looks to help investors that suffered losses.
The New York-based hedge fund manager’s new public entity will be called has $11.5 billion in assets under management.
The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index rebounded in February, jumping 2.21% after January’s drop of 2.79%.
Despite a sinking stock market, investment research firm Morningstar Inc. is mapping plans to increase its product lineup in 2008.
Blackstone Group today announced fourth-quarter losses of $170 million, compared with a profit of $1.18 billion one year earlier.
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 1.4% in February but remains down 1.2% for the first two months of the year.
Hedge fund assets grew by only 10% in the second half of the year, marking the smallest half-year increase since 2002.
