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Chicago-based Blue Horizon Asset Management has launched the Blue Horizon Global Equity Fund, a long/short equity strategy with a focus on international equity markets. 

Max Schmid has joined London-based Fortune Group as a managing director from City-Capital Corp., a London-based investment bank, where he served in the same capacity in its alternative assets subsidiary.

Halcyon Asset Management has grabbed its new finance executive from the sinking ship that is Bear Stearns.

Chris Hohn has demonstrated, time and again, that he knows how to fight fire with fire.

Hong Kong-based Permavest Investment has closed on a new private equity fund of funds with US$63 million in capital commitments.

Advent International has raised $10.4 billion for its sixth global buyout fund which the firm says is the largest mid-market buyout fund ever raised.

Rye Brook, N.Y.-based Kenmar has added to its portfolio of cleantech funds of hedge funds with the launch of a global agricultural and soft commodities fund.

The new offering debuted with some $50 million in assets and received a $100 million capital infuasion on March 1.

A listed fund of hedge funds run by Goldman Sachs may issue new shares, it said Friday.

It’s been easy come, easy go, for Clarium Capital Management this year. 

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pentagon Capital Management CEO Lewis Chester is guilty of scheming to defraud U.S. mutual funds.