By Staff Writers of Hedge Fund Insight, led by Simon Kerr Welcome to the second edition of The Hedge Fund Hot 100. As last year the aim is to capture what is emerging and trending and growing in the hedge fund industry. The absolute is interesting, and it is covered elsewhere in […] Read more »
Underlying Hedge Fund Managers used by Blackstone Alternative Asset Management
By Hedge Fund Insight staff Blackstone Group is tapping into the mass wealthy by teaming up with Fidelity as a distributor. Fidelity Investments is offering the Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund as part of its Portfolio Advisory Service. Already $1bn has been channeled into this mutual fund version of the Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund, which has […] 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 »