Hedge Funds and CTAs

Tokyo-based Sparx Group may launch an infrastructure and renewable energy fund, anticipating opportunities as Japan seeks to wean itself of nuclear power.

Chicago-based Castle Creek Arbitrage has opened an office in London as it increases its focus on European debt opportunities.

His ill-fated foray into hedge fund management is apparently no big deal for Peter Thiel.

His long-sought-after divorce with Elliott Management dragging on, Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh has found a new source of funds to continue making movies.

Goldman Sachs has launched a hedge fund seeding fund, with plans to raise about $1 billion.

The new fund, managed by Kent Clark in New York and Ali Raissi in London, has already made its first investment, handing $100 million to a new hedge fund founded by veterans of SAC Capital Advisors and TPG-Axon Capital Management. The new fund plans to invest in between seven and nine other hedge fund startups.

John Paulson recently apologized to his investors about his funds' awful performance this year. But at least one client has nothing to complain about.

Legendary hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has joined the UCITS III bandwagon.

Mendon Capital founder Anton Schutz is joining forces with investment banker Mark Cohen and former People’s United Financial CEO Philip Sherringham to launch a hedge fund focused on banking industry M&A.

Marc Mezvinsky, who married the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last year, will join forces with Bennett Grau and Mark Mallon. The three formerly worked together at Goldman Sachs' global macro proprietary trading desk, and are now raising money for their New York-based global macro hedge fund, Eaglevale Partners.

Masaru Koibuchi, formerly at Goldman Sachs, and Kazuho Suzuki, late of Mizuho Corporate Bank, have founded Edgebell Capital Co. in Tokyo.