Hedge Funds and CTAs

The Asia-focused firm’s Gemini Fund manages almost 14 times more today than it did at the beginning of the year, growing from $7 million to $96.2 million.

London hedge fund 36 South Capital is consolidating its offerings and moving all of its funds’ domicile to Ireland.

As 2011 approaches, we caught up with some industry experts to ask them what they thought next year has in store for the world’s financial markets in general, and hedge funds in particular.

The namesakes behind oil and gas hedge fund Nanes Balkany Partners are splitting up.

Forced to shutter his hedge fund in the face of mounting redemptions last year, Alson Capital Partners founder Neil Barsky is returning to his first love.

Clients of Level Global Investors will have an extra month to think about whether they wish to remain such. The New York-based firm, one of three hedge funds raided as part of the Justice Department’s insider-trading probe, said investors will have until the end of next month to file redemption requests.

Harbinger Capital Management’s new permanent capital vehicle has found itself the target of litigious, unhappy investors.

Alan Kahn, an investor in Harbinger Group, has sued the acquisitions company over Harbinger’s plan to transfer its stake in Spectrum Brands Holdings. Under that plan, Harbinger Harbinger Group is “vastly overpaying” for the stake, Kahn alleges.

The co-founder of GoldenTree Asset Management is retiring.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued seven people for defrauding investors of some $34 million.

Hedge fund American Pegasus and three former top executives have settled charges that they used client assets to create a “pervasive” web of conflicts of interest, with themselves at the center.