Institutional Hedge Fund Investor Database Released

August 31st, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian Hedge Watch Inc. (CHW) presents its 8th annual World Alternative Investment Summit Canada (www.waisc.com), taking place September 14-16, 2009, at Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

June 28th, 2009 LONDON - Headstart Fund Ltd, Headstart Advisers Ltd, an FSA-regulated hedge fund adviser and Mr Najy Nasser, its Chief Investment Officer, today announces they have settled their dispute with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to Headstart's historic involvement in market-timing from which it disengaged in September 2003 prior to re-focusing on its other trading strategies. This will allow Headstart to concentrate on its core business as an investment adviser to offshore hedge funds and expand the business with the launch of new funds.

June 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - - 40% of institutional investors think the market bottom is behind us In a recent survey of 127 institutional investors, TheMarkets.com found that nearly 40% of those surveyed think that the market has already rebounded, hitting its bottom earlier this year. This number signals a swing in optimism from a similar survey in March, in which 17% of respondents indicated they expected the bottom before the end of the first half of the year.

June 21st, 2009 HONG KONG - The India Capital Fund (ICF), a long-term absolute return fund, returned 44.8% in May, net of all fees, vs. a gain of 36.5% in dollar terms for India's Sensex index.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Awards held in association with HFMWeek magazine Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) has been awarded the Fund of Hedge Funds Administrator of the Year award at the inaugural HFMWeek Service Provider Awards, held in London in May. The awards recognise companies that have outperformed their peers during 2008-2009 and demonstrated financial progress, growth and genuine innovation.

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - Butterfield Fulcrum, a leading independent administrator for the alternative investment industry, has been named Best Single Manager Administrator at the inaugural HFMWeek European Service Provider Awards. Butterfield Fulcrum beat out five other firms in the category on the basis of "financial progress, growth and genuine innovation." The award recognizes the successful management of Butterfield Fulcrum's merger and praised the unified company for not losing sight of the importance of client service, while continuing to invest and expand, opening new offices and investing in new products and services.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - Man Group, the alternative investment management business, today announced its results for the year ended 31 March 2009. In a video interview Peter Clarke, CEO, talks on the group's results and the outlook citing recent funds flows and fund performance.

May 4th, 2009 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - dms Management Ltd. (dms), the largest management firm in the Cayman Islands focused on serving the hedge fund industry, recently penned an article, "Fund governance: size matters", for the financial industry publication Hedge Fund Manager Week's Cayman Report 2009.

April 21st, 2009 NEW YORK - In a survey of 160 institutional investors, 85% of those surveyed expect that the market will bottom out before the end of the first half of 2010, with the majority of those expecting the bottom in the second half of 2009. The survey, reaching investors in 20 countries, was conducted by TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of research, estimates and workflow solutions to institutional investors worldwide.

April 13th, 2009 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - SEI to provide fund outsourcing services for new Middle Eastern property fund SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC) today announced that it will be expanding its outsourcing services for Geni Capital LLP ("Geni") to support Geni's partnership with AREIT Management Limited and the newly launched Geni GCC Commercial Real Estate Opportunities Fund. The Fund will target investments across the Gulf Cooperation Council ("GCC") States.

April 27th, 2009 Nearly 20 pct of Asia hedge funds close since '08HONG KONG — Almost 20 percent of Asia's hedge funds closed shop since the start of 2008 as a wave of investor redemptions and sharp losses amid the financial crisis took a heavy toll on the region's once high-flying industry, a new survey said Monday. At least 129 funds were shuttered in 2008 and 17 more in the first quarter of 2009, a study by London-based AsiaHedge magazine said.

August 25th, 2009 Calif. hedge fund manager pleads guilty to fraudLOS ANGELES — The founder and manager of two Beverly Hills hedge funds has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. Bradley Ruderman pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of wire fraud, two counts of investment adviser fraud and a misdemeanor count of failing to file income taxes in 2007.

April 29th, 2009 EU lays out new rules for hedge fundsBRUSSELS — The European Union is proposing new rules extending oversight for the euro2 trillion hedge fund and private equity fund industry. The European Commission says the new rules will require registration for funds managing more than euro100 million of assets — covering just 3 percent of hedge fund managers dealing with 9 percent of assets in EU-based funds.

June 29th, 2009 UK fund manager settles US market-timing caseWASHINGTON — A London-based hedge fund manager and its chief investment officer have agreed to a nearly $18 million settlement resolving U.S. regulators' allegations that one of its funds defrauded U.S.

June 2nd, 2009 AP sources: 2 Boston hedge funds closing downBOSTON — A pair of unrelated Boston-based hedge funds managing a total of more than $1.3 billion separately told investors Tuesday they're shutting down and returning investor cash because of recent disappointing performance. Letters from Raptor Capital Management and Noble Partners LP that were obtained by The Associated Press say both firms plan to revamp their investment strategies and eventually offer new funds.

September 4th, 2009 Questioning Madoff on the phoneThe new report by the inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission on the agency's failure to detect Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud over 16 years is packed with disclosures and tantalizing details. Here, for example, is a snippet of a phone conversation in December 2003 between Lori Richards, then the director of the SEC's inspections office, and Madoff.

April 30th, 2009 Calif. fund manager's assets frozen in fraud caseLOS ANGELES — A federal judge has frozen the assets of a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager accused by the Securities Exchange Commission of duping investors out of $38 million. The injunction issued by U.S.

June 30th, 2009 Madoff 'feeder' Merkin parts with art troveNEW YORK — A hedge fund manager being sued over his role the Bernard Madoff scandal is selling off $310 million worth of art. Financier J.

August 25th, 2009 Hedge fund gets Creative Loafing's 6 alt-weekliesTAMPA, Fla. — A New York hedge fund snapped up the Creative Loafing newspaper chain during a bankruptcy auction Tuesday and promised to keep its six free alternative weeklies running as normal.

April 30th, 2009 SoCal fund manager has assets frozen in fraud caseLOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Wednesday froze the assets of a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager accused by the Securities Exchange Commission of duping investors out of $38 million by misleading them about his funds' performance, the commission said in a statement. U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank's injunction also prohibited Bradley L.