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Hedge Fund Groups With Most Capital from Institutions
Ranked by percentage of discretionary assets managed in (single manager) hedge funds worldwide for institutions as of June 30, 2015. Rank Manager % of worldwide assets institutional % of U.S. assets institutional 1 Black River Asset Mgmt. 100.0% 69.0% 2 Bridgewater Associates 100.0% 52.7% 3 Salient Partners 100.0% 100.0% 4 Nephila Capital 98.7% 18.7% […] Read more »
Tom Sandell Takes The Bermuda Reinsurance Route
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Sandell Asset Management Corp. recently sponsored the launch of Sandell Re, a Bermuda based reinsurance company that can invest in the firm’s global event driven investment strategy, which will be managed in a separately managed account with an investment objective substantially similar to Sandell Asset Management’s main hedge funds. […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Sidecars Disrupt Reinsurance Market
By Brian Schneider and Matthew Noll of Fitch Ratings The expansion of alternative capital sources within the reinsurance market is likely to contribute to lower returns on equity across the reinsurance sector and sustain the market’s M&A wave, particularly among Bermudan firms, says Fitch Ratings. Alternative sources of capital push the sector’s capitalization levels […] Read more »
The Big Hedge Fund Stories from 2011
Although individual news items can have can have historical significance (such as story 1 below) the effort here is more to point to the themes and trends at work in the hedge fund industry last year. Here are my top stories for 2011: Bruce Kovner 1. Big Name Retirements – two of the best known […] Read more »