There are 61 hedge fund managers, worth £75m or more, in the list of Britain’s richest 1,000 people recently published by the Sunday Times. The list of the top 25 is given below. Alan Howard, who heads Brevan Howard, is Britain’s richest hedge fund manager, with a personal fortune of £1.5 billion, according to the […] Read more »
Hedge Funds to Step Up In LBO Market in Europe
Just like the private equity business, Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) activity is usually subject to a cycle related to that of the stock market with a lag. On top of that in Europe there used to be laid a secular growth in LBO volume, and a long-term trend towards a wider variety of buy-out financing […] Read more »
Through the Lag – Europe’s Leading Hedge Funds Add Investment Staff
>One of the ways of looking at the health of a hedge fund business is in staffing levels. Like many other businesses in finance hedge funds cut back on headcount in late 2008 and into 2009, and the cutbacks in London based hedge funds continued into 2010 (see this article for data on last year). […] Read more »