Hedge Funds

The reliance on alternative investments led investors and allocators to pinpoint small, niche private equity managers, short-trading hedge funds and global private debt funds as key areas to capitalize on with the goal of yielding outsized returns.

Plan terminated a domestic small- to mid-cap equity firm and redistributed assets to its existing managers.

An education system in the South approved commitments to a new hedge fund manager and an existing real estate firm within its endowment at its December board meeting.

The plan disclosed ten commitments totaling almost $1 billion at its board meeting last week.

One will head the firm’s hedge fund solutions business and the other will oversee special situations.

A university in the Great Lakes region will consider making a venture capital commitment and hedge fund investment within its long-term portfolio at its board of regents meeting today.