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New York Hedge Fund Launch: Spiegel’s Long/Short Stanphyl Fund
New York-based limited liability company Stanphyl Capital GP, LLC (Stanphyl) has launched a long/short equity hedge fund. The new hedge fund, Stanphyl Capital Partners, LP., launched earlier this month out of NYC. Managing member Mark Spiegel reported the current AUM at $2M. The Strategy – Stanphyl runs a highly concentrated (three to ten “best ideas”) [...]
Dyment Joins UBS as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution
Global wealth management giant UBS has appointed John Dyment, president and founder of $9 billion Greenwich hedge fund, Shumway Capital Partners, as UBS’s Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution. Based in New York, Dyment will be responsible for the management and development of UBS’s strategically important hedge fund franchise, with global functional responsibility for sales, [...]
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“Top-tier Republican Donor” Backs NY Same Sex Marriage
A group of three hedge fund managers, Paul E. Singer, a “top-tier Republican donor,” Steven A. Cohen and Clifford S. Asness have decided to back, financially and otherwise, the establishment of same-sex marriage in the state of New York, the New York Times reported. Some comments in the Times include: – “An unexpected source: a [...]
AIMA Launches Brazil Hedge Fund Initiative
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has launched an initiative to engage with the Brazilian hedge fund industry and announced the appointment of a local representative, Michelle Noyes of BRZ Investimentos. “The maturity and sophistication of the Brazilian hedge fund industry has been noted internationally, and what is clear is that there is not only [...]
Estate Planning with Hedge Fund Performance Allocations (part one)
As the economy improves, advisors have experienced a reemergence of hedge funds and hedge fund managers are again focused on their performance allocations as an optimal asset to engage in tax-efficient wealth transferring. Further, the recent (and potentially temporary) increase in the federal gift tax exemption from a previous $1,000,000 to now $5,000,000 per individual, [...]
9th Annual Midwest Benefit for Hedge Funds Care
Midwestern hedge fund managers and other alternative investment industry members will be meeting for the 9th Annual Midwest Open Your Heart to the Children Benefit on May 19th in Chicago, Illinois In support of Hedge Funds Care, a global non-profit organization that works to prevent and treat child abuse, the gala will be held at [...]
Rock Creek Group President Awarded the 100 Women in Hedge Funds U.S. Industry Leadership Award
Non-profit organization, 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), announced that Afsaneh Beschloss, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Rock Creek Group, will be awarded the 100WHF U.S. Industry Leadership Award at its 2011 New York Gala, to be held at Cipriani, 42nd Street, in New York. Each year, the organization honors a woman whose professional [...]
Nanostart Launches Nanotechnology Fund in Russia
Nanotechnology hedge fund investor, Nanostart AG, is launching a new fund in Russia The Kama Fund First, together with the Russian company RUSNANO and the Governor of one of the Top 10 most innovative regions of Russia, Perm. Just west of the Ural Mountains. “We have systematically investigated the Russian nanotechnology scene”, said Marco Beckmann, [...]
Ontario Mega-Quarry Riles Up Local Farmers
A group of protesters yesterday passed the half-way mark of their 5 day, 119 kilometer march against Highland Companies in opposition to it’s new Canadian mega-quarry plans. The group of residents, farmers and representatives have been walking with signs and flags saying “Stop the Quarry,” since a rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto last Friday. The project is backed [...]
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