Longship Capital Management Launches Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund:Fund of Fixed Income Hedge Funds
New York, NY (ContentDesk) February 3, 2004 -- Longship Capital Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Provident Group, announced the launch of its Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund. The Fund was created for investors seeking to efficiently allocate capital to dedicated fixed income hedge fund strategies that employ limited leverage, placing it in the company of only a handful of competing products. Key objectives include the generation of low levels of volatility and achievement of its target returns irrespective of interest rate trends.The Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund targets returns in excess of 12% per annum and a standard deviation of less than 4.0%. The underlying fund managers were identified in April 2002 and analyzed over a 20-month observation period.
During this pro forma period, the Fund placed in the top 20th percentile of nearly 300 fund of funds and in the top 4th percentile on a risk-adjusted basis, as identified by HFR.
In 2003, the Fund produced a pro forma return of 12.05% with a standard deviation of 2.11%.The Fund is a globally diversified vehicle currently deploying capital to several sectors including US Mortgage and Asset-Backed, High Yield, Distressed Debt, Emerging Markets Arbitrage and Local Currency Debt. The Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund is managed by a team of senior fixed income professionals drawn from Lehman Brothers and Columbia Asset Management. Longship's Chief Investment Officer, William Wadden, is a 20-year veteran fixed income portfolio manager who previously had oversight responsibility for $4 Billion in Collateralized Debt Obligations issued by Columbia and was a senior portfolio manager at Stein Roe & Farnham and Harris Trust. Other Investment Committee members include Steven Carlson, Todd Jorn, and Jim Roper, former Managing Directors with Lehman Brothers who headed several businesses including Global Emerging Markets Debt, the Global Hedge Fund Group, Mortgage Trading, Fixed Income Research and Asia Fixed Income Sales. Mr.
Wadden commented from Longship's New York headquarters: "We are excited about launching the Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund after nearly two years of analysis, manager screening and due diligence. The Longship team strongly believes that the Fund provides investors with uncommon access to the broad diversity of strategies that comprise this asset class while simultaneously managing the complex array of risks that face fixed income investors."Provident Group is a specialized investment bank founded in 1998 which is focused on fixed income alternative assets, fixed income asset management and providing investment banking services including M&A, corporate finance and advisory to middle market clients.For more information on the Longship Multi-Strategy Debt Fund please contact:
InvestorsChris Betz - Managing Director212.742.1840 e-mail protected from spam botsMark Bishop - Managing Director212.742.1871???e-mail protected from spam botsJim Roper - Managing Partner212.742.9176???e-mail protected from spam botsFund ManagersWilliam Wadden - Chief Investment Officer212.601.2414???e-mail protected from spam botsFor More information on Provident Group:Steven Carlson - Managing Partner212.742.1852???e-mail protected from spam botsTodd Jorn - Managing Partner212.742.9177???e-mail protected from spam bots.
GLOBAL ASSET ALTERNATIVES LLC RELEASES SUMMARY AND COMMENT ON SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION REPORT ON HEDGE FUNDS
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October 22, 2003 It's been less than a month since the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) released its long awaited staff report "Implications of the Growth of Hedge Funds."
Global Asset Alternatives LLC, an Atlanta firm which specializes in creating and executing investment strategies in real estate, hedge funds and private equity has released a "Summary and Comment" on the SEC report that is available to the media and investors.An intense investigation of the hedge fund industry began in earnest several months ago, when the SEC considered the overall risk associated with hedge fund investments.
"This investigation was borne of their concern that hedge funds were being offered...
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Smarsh Inc. Introduces Hedge Fund Email/IM Archiving Solution, Archive InSite?
Smarsh Inc., a privately held global provider of technology solutions for the financial services industry, announces the launch of a new version of its archiving solution designed specifically for small to mid-sized hedge funds, Archive InSite. The new solution satisfies the need for hedge fund managers to follow future hedge fund record retention requirements. A bundled package of services, Archive InSite allows compliance officers, and other authorized administrators to utilize all products in the Smarsh Inc. Web Compliance Toolkit. Administrators will now have access to Email and IM archiving, anti-spam and virus protection, encryption, and a host of other provisions which have been designed specifically for hedge fund compliance.
Financial managers now have a definite digital trail of all electronic communication, providing a fail safe and fully searchable archive which complies with new hedge fund regulations. Furthermore, Archive InSite has also been engineered to easily...
Smarsh Inc. Introduces Hedge Fund Email/IM Archiving Solution, Archive InSite?
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Alternative Investment News Announces its Nominees for the 4th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards; John Meriwether, of JWM Partners, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
New York, NY (ContentDesk) April 19, 2006 -- Alternative Investment News, a newsletter published by Institutional Investor News that provides weekly coverage of the global alternatives market, today announced the nominees for its 4th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. The awards recognize the hedge funds, funds of funds, endowments, foundations, and corporate and public pension funds that have made significant impacts on the hedge fund industry over the past year. Nominees and winners are selected by the editorial staff of Alternative Investment News. Winners will be announced and honored at an annual dinner and ceremony on June 28, 2006 at Gotham Hall in New York City. John Meriwether, of JWM Partners, will be honored with Alternative Investment News Lifetime Achievement Award.This years award categories and nominees are as follows:Emerging Manager:KGR CapitalPershing Square Capital ManagementSandelman PartnersShooter Fund ManagementSquare Capital ManagementHedge Fund Launch:Convexity...
Alternative Investment News Announces its Nominees for the 4th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards; John Meriwether, of JWM Partners, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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Energy Hedge Fund Center Announces New Online Seminar: Investment Opportunities in the Energy & Environmental Value Chain: Hedge Funds, VC and Private Equity
Houston, TX (ContentDesk) March 14, 2006 -- The energy hedge fund center, LLC (EHFC) is to conduct a new online seminar on April 18th, 2006 on Investment opportunities in the energy and environmental value chain: hedge funds, VC and private equity. The seminar will take place at 1pm EDT.Over the last two years, the energy industry has literally been transformed into the hot investment sector. Today, with high and volatile energy commodity prices impacting everyone, energy is in the news headlines 24/7. On a daily basis, new investment opportunities in the energy industry are offered in the form of energy or natural resource-specific mutual funds, electronically traded funds (ETFs), income and royalty trusts, Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and, other vehicles. Yet these new vehicles only scratch the surface of the potential returns available in the alternative investment universe via energy and environmental hedge funds.
In this Phone & Web seminar, the authors of the new...
Energy Hedge Fund Center Announces New Online Seminar: Investment Opportunities in the Energy & Environmental Value Chain: Hedge Funds, VC and Private Equity
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How Do I Find the Top Mutual Funds?
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All investors are looking to find the top mutual funds for investing their money. We all want to know where our money will grow the fastest and be the safest. But sometimes it can seem overwhelming to sort through all the options available to sort out which are really the top mutual funds for us.
The first step in sorting out the top mutual funds and determining the best place to put your money is to identify your investment goals. This includes assessing the level of risk you're comfortable with as well as how you need your money to work for you. For example, if you're getting close to retirement, you probably are not comfortable with a highly aggressive and risky mutual fund, even if it is one of the top mutual funds in terms of performance.
Instead, you'll be likely to want to find one of the top mutual funds that are low risk and safe; even if that means that you may earn a lower rate of return on your money.
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Web Seminar: ?Hedge Funds:The Next Wave in Energy Trading? (Tuesday, October 5, 2004 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm Eastern)
Global Change Associates and Utilipoint have completed the first study on energy hedge funds entitled "Hedge Funds Enter the Energy Trading Space."
The authors of the study have identified over 200 hedge funds active in the energy space and will offer a web seminar to present a concise overview of how hedge funds are impacting trading in energy markets. The entrance of energy hedge funds in commodity trading is new, and they are bringing both liquidity and more price volatility to the global energy markets. Their presence is accelerating the financialization of energy markets. This seminar will be based on the current research of Global Change Associates and Utilipoint International representing the first ground breaking analysis of what hedge funds are doing in the energy space.
Get up to speed in one hour and a quarter on what is really happening in energy markets for oil, gas, power, and coal trading today.
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Web Seminar: ?Hedge Funds:The Next Wave in Energy Trading? (Tuesday, October 5, 2004 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm Eastern)
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Finding the best plasma tv
Plasma televisions are one of the hottest products on the market today. But with so many retailers, how do you know where you can get the best plasma television? Here are some things you should know before you before you commit yourself to the purchase.Firstly, deciding where to buy your best plasma television is not as easy as it may sound. You will need to think about where you will go- will it be a traditional store, located around the corner, or will you get a better deal at an outlet store...
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Anycarhire.com Car Hire David Against Goliath
In the United States, the car hire industry is a highly competitive $19 billion per year market. And yet prices are still relatively reasonable. Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Rental, Hertz, National, and Thrifty are all familiar names, and many (especially Hertz and Avis) are aggressively marketing their cars as they begin to see their market share eroded by independents. www.anycarhire.com has been formed by some of the best specialists...
Anycarhire.com Car Hire David Against Goliath
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Financial Planners Get More Clients With New Certification
Financial planners are getting new clients from a seemingly unlikely market sector: U.S. federal government employees. "Federal employee benefits programs are very complicated. Only the best trained financial planners are able to service this market," says Judy Snow, founder of Federal Employee Benefits Specialist, Inc. (FEBSI) (http://www.FEBSI.com) and developer of the Certified Federal Employee Benefits Specialist (CFEBS) training and certification...
Hedge funds Financial Planners Get More Clients With New Certification
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