THE HEDGE FUND JOURNAL

Download Issue	MQ Absolute Return Strategies - Asia Issue 39, July/August 2008 Size isn’t everything. Assets under management at hedge funds investing in Asian strategies reached more than US$135 billion by the end of 2007, up from US$85 billion in 2005, according to data from Eurekahedge.

Download Issue	One Year On Issue 39, July/August 2008 At the start of last summer the credit crunch was a problem in one small part of the US mortgage market. A year on and the repercussions from the sub-prime crisis are still reverberating throughout the world’s financial markets. Despite notable failures - two of Bear Stearns structured credit hedge funds were an important catalyst in the credit market implosion - banks rather than hedge funds have borne the brunt of the fallout.

Download Issue	A Fundamental Look At China’s ‘A’ Share Market Issue 38, June 2008 China never seems to stay out of the headlines these days. And its high media profile is also focusing attention on the investment prospect it represents for global hedge fund investors.

Download Issue	Next Generation Order Management? Issue 38, June 2008 The need to deploy specialist technology solutions is one of the operational imperatives which hedge funds have been waking up to recently.

Download Issue	Augustus Asset Managers Issue 38, June 2008 Augustus Asset Managers Limited finds itself in a rather sweet spot. Having renamed itself after Rome’s first emperor and having assumed majority ownership from its former owner Swiss bank Julius Baer Group via a management earn-out in early 2007, the advisor to hedge, absolute return and traditional funds is overseeing more assets now than ever before, in markets rich with opportunities.

Download Issue	A New Era of Wealth Issue 38, June 2008 Juno Mother Earth is a hedge fund business with a very focused purpose: to provide investors with exposure to the booming global commodities markets without binding them to the characteristics of a directional/long only approach.

Download Issue	The Bank of New York Mellon Issue 38, June 2008 Can an asset manager with over US$1 trillion under management be described as a boutique? If the business in question is The Bank of New York Mellon, then the answer is yes.

Download Issue	Caliburn Capital Partners Issue 38, June 2008 Jeremy Rowlands and Chris Bouckley have been in the hedge fund business a long time. Along with Head of Fund Research Tony Morrongiello and COO Mike Ketley they now run Caliburn Capital Partners, a business founded in 2005. But their story in the hedge fund business goes back a lot further. In 1992, after 15 years in long only management and institutional broking, they founded Bayard Partners, a European equity hedge fund management company that was Morgan Stanley’s first non-US client in prime brokerage. The pair are clearly entrepreneurial businessmen as well as seasoned investment professionals.

Download Issue	Focus In the Eye of the Storm Issue 37, May 2008 “A lot of people define investors as value or growth. We are neither. We are time investors,” says Hugh Hendry, the co-founder and CIO of Eclectica Asset Management.

Download Issue	Changing With the Times Issue 37, May 2008 Martin Cornish was there when they sank the foundations of the European hedge fund industry. Cornish started dealing with hedge funds in the 1980s working in the tax department at Simmons & Simmons.

Download Issue	Focusing On The Cash Flow Issue 37, May 2008 Pierre Castela joined the Gartmore hedge fund team in April 2004, and it was his appointment that helped the firm to make the decision to launch AlphaGen Tucana. He held a number of positions at both Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg prior to managing his own hedge fund at Bryan Garnier Asset Management in London. He then moved to become an analyst at Kepler Equities in Paris, the position he held before he joined Gartmore.

Download Issue	Pequot’s Fundamental Take on Credit Issue 37, May 2008 Every three to five years some piece of the fixed income market blows up, and most people who have been in the market for 10 or 15 years or more see this as an entry point.” So says Steve Zamsky, a former credit strategist with Morgan Stanley. Zamsky is now a Managing Director with US hedge fund manager Pequot, and Head of its Credit Strategy.

Download Issue	A Flexible Approach to Risk Management Issue 36, April 2008 Last year was a wake-up call, if one was needed, that more hedge funds and their investors needed to be paying closer attention to their risk management capabilities.

Download Issue	Morley Fund Management: Shahid Ikram Issue 36, April 2008 The arc of Shahid Ikram’s career reflects the increasing sophistication of managing fixed income in an institutional context. He started as one of a team of four managing fixed income at Commercial Union (CU) in 1990. Today the Head of Sovereign & G7 funds at Morley, Aviva’s UK-based asset management business, is part of a cadre of 56 fixed income research and portfolio management professionals. Ikram himself has stayed put, but the firm has grown around him through takeover and merger (eg. General Accident, Provident Mutual and Norwich Union) such that parent company Aviva is the largest UK insurer and the fifth largest insurance group in the world.

Download Issue	Glenwood Issue 36, April 2008 The story of Glenwood is really the story of how a pioneer in Chicago’s nascent fund of hedge funds sector turned his start-up into an institutional-grade fund of funds, a firm that is now an integral part of one of the largest hedge fund groups on the planet. Frank Meyer, the pioneer in question, is certainly highly spoken of around the alternative investment community in Chicago.

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Size isn’t everything. Assets under management at hedge funds investing in Asian strategies reached more than US$135 billion by the end of 2007, up from US$85 billion in 2005, according to data from Eurekahedge.

China never seems to stay out of the headlines these days. And its high media profile is also focusing attention on the investment prospect it represents for global hedge fund investors.

The need to deploy specialist technology solutions is one of the operational imperatives which hedge funds have been waking up to recently.

Juno Mother Earth is a hedge fund business with a very focused purpose: to provide investors with exposure to the booming global commodities markets without binding them to the characteristics of a directional/long only approach.

Can an asset manager with over US$1 trillion under management be described as a boutique? If the business in question is The Bank of New York Mellon, then the answer is yes.

“A lot of people define investors as value or growth. We are neither. We are time investors,” says Hugh Hendry, the co-founder and CIO of Eclectica Asset Management.

Martin Cornish was there when they sank the foundations of the European hedge fund industry. Cornish started dealing with hedge funds in the 1980s working in the tax department at Simmons & Simmons.

Last year was a wake-up call, if one was needed, that more hedge funds and their investors needed to be paying closer attention to their risk management capabilities.