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Future of Offshore Hedge Funds Future of Offshore Hedge Funds After the Financial Crisis With a wave of new regulations aimed at the hedge fund industry, it's hard to predict what the state of the industry will be in a couple years.  I found an interesting article discussing specifically the future of offshore hedge funds.  It is likely that the regulation will include not only European or American funds but also cover managers or investors operating offshore, so offshore hedge funds are worrying over the new legislation as much as any other firm. “In the future, offshore funds and funds in general will differ ... Read Full Story

New York – (HedgeCo.net) – There is a growing trend in the investment management community. Hedge fund managers are crossing over into the traditional money management space of mutual funds. That is exactly what Greg Levinson of Schooner Investment Group did in early 2008. Levinson, a 15 year hedge fund veteran, launched the Schooner Growth and Income Fund (SCNAX) with the intention of bringing more sophisticated investment strategies into a mutual fund framework. The mutual fund structure has a lot of appeal to investors ; offering daily liquidity, full transparency, management fee only pricing, little to no leverage. Hedge funds offer sophisticated strategies, good ... Read Full Story

Hedge Fund Secondary Market Private Equity Looks to Buy Illiquid Hedge Fund Stakes Private equity firms are among the potential investors in the hedge fund secondaries market.  Some hedge fund investors are still worried about liquidity after being stuck with illiquid hedge fund investments during the financial crisis.  Now that the hedge fund industry and markets are recovering, buyout firms and other buyers are looking to purchase stakes in hedge funds.  The hedge fund secondaries market has expanded to several billion dollars a year and there are still a lot of investors interested in selling. Some niche firms are buying these stakes at discounted ... Read Full Story

New York (HedgeCo.net) – “Hedge funds performed as advertised in October—they hedged,” said Nadia Papagiannis, Morningstar alternative investment strategist. “Though the economy may be recovering, hedge fund managers appear positioned for a reversal.” However, hedge funds in the Morningstar Europe Equity hedge fund category had inflows of $847 million. Hedge funds following arbitrage strategies and buying distressed securities have enjoyed a tremendous year, as they continue to profit from assets acquired at fire-sale prices in late 2008. Profits are starting to narrow, however, as the discounts on assets are diminishing. Certain emerging market countries, such as China and Russia, posted significant gains, the performance ... Read Full Story

Free Hedge Fund Resources We gave away around 10,000 copies of our e-book before we started tracking the downloads, and since tracking started we have had 60,000 downloads of the Hedge Fund Blog Book. The book has served its first purpose, to land a book deal with Wiley to write a "real" book on hedge funds.  As I complete that project we are gearing up to completely re-do and expand this free e-book resource.  The next version will have decided sections to capital raising, starting a fund, growing a career in the industry, etc. Since we know another 60,000 professionals will probably download this ... Read Full Story