Horizon Cash Management saw assets under management grow by 27% in the first quarter of this year to USD 2 billion. Diane Mix explains why hedge fund managers are making increased use of Horizon's cash management services.

Michael Roczinski outlines the cost benefits to hedge funds using the Eurex platform and highlights recent additions to the product range.

Robert Milroy, chief investment officer of fund of hedge funds manager Corazon Capital, says that having cut its ties to the fallen Dawnay Day group, the firm is planning to expand its geographic reach and target new platform-based institutional and retail distribution channels, with a target of reaching assets under management of up to USD6bn.

Shaun Port, chief investment officer at fund of hedge funds manager BDO Stoy Hayward Investment Management, says the firm selects managers with a unique, often contrarian perspective, and usually with depth rather than breadth of focus, but only if they are supported by an organisation robust enough to survive and prosper.

Paul O'Reilly describes the extensive knowledge of convertible markets, which feeds into IIU Asset Strategies' consistently strong results

Brad Cole discusses the strategy and investment processes driving the Tellus Natural Resources Fund, focused on commodities and natural resources.

Beach Horizon co-founders Alan Goulding and Dr Paul Netherwood outline the investment ideas and strategies that define Beach Horizon

Chris Jones outlines Key Asset Management's investment thinking and range of funds of hedge fund investment strategies

Edward Horner outlines the investment process and stringent risk management procedures driving Eden Rock's investments in asset based lending strategies.

Tim Haywood outlines the strategies and thinking behind Julius Baer Investments' range of hedge funds

Ian Cadby outlines Ermitage's manager selection process and outlines the strategy of its Japan Absolute Fund

Charles Barnick, CEO, Anthony Gibson, Investment Manager & Ken Lewis, Senior Investment Manager, discuss Coronation's investment approach

David Walsh discusses the ideas and strategies that drive performance at Appleton Capital Management

Philippe Bonnefoy highlights the investment strategy and manager selection criteria for the Cedar Fund

Julian Mayo outlines the strategy and thinking behind the development of Charlemagne Capital's suite of emerging market funds

Virginia Reynolds Parker outlines the strategy and thinking that drives Parker Global Strategies in its search for investment opportunities around the world

Barbara Rupf Bee was appointed Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Republic Investments Limited (HRIL), the HSBC Group's dedicated fund of hedge fund investment adviser, in September 2005, replacing Paul Dunning.

Edward Horner outlines the investment process and recent developments at Eden Rock Capital Management, which focuses on asset-based lending funds.

Brett Hellerman, co-founder of Clinton Group, discusses the emerging manager seeding fund he has launched with MassMutual Insurance.

Virginia Reynolds Parker examines the management of risk in FoHFs and outlines a range of issues central to the concerns of managers and investors.

Arié Assayag outlines the thinking and strategy behind the global development of SGAM AI hedge funds and funds of funds business, plus forthcoming launches.

Kevin Arenson, CIO & CEO, and Harry Wulfsohn, Director, of Stenham Advisors Plc, outline their products, strategy and investment philosophy.

London-based Chaser Capital launched its first currency fund on 14 February. David Lavers outlines the fund's strategy and investment process

Tushar Patel outlines the strategic thinking that is driving the development of GAIM Advisors' growing range of index-based funds of hedge funds.

André du Plessis discusses a wide range of topical issues and outlines the background and strategies at the USD 9 billion institutional asset manager.

Andrew Bourne, Chief Executive, and Alan Thomas, Legal & Compliance Advisor at Bourne Financial, outline their services for start-up hedge  funds.

Dexion Capital plc has successfully completed the third major fund raising for its London-listed closed ended fund of hedge funds, Dexion Absolute Ltd. (DAB-AUM 240m GBP). Robin Bowie outlines Dexion Capital's strategy and plans for new products.

In 2002 the two Geneva-based private banks Lombard Odier & Cie and Darier Hentsch & Cie merged to form Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie. Daniel Penseyres outlines LODH's hedge fund investment strategy.

The Maga Smaller Companies Fund Limited is being launched on 1 April by London-based Gibbs Tyser Capital Management Limited (GTCM). Claire Griffiths outlines the background and investment strategy of the new fund.

In this interview Ian Cadby outlines how Liberty Ermitage doubled its assets under management in funds of hedge funds to over US$1 billion over the past year, and is now expanding into the North American market.

Now in its seventh year, London-based Winton has delivered consistently positive annual returns and an average annual performance of 21%. Founder David Harding outlines the factors behind Winton's success.

Goldmans Sachs operates one of the largest funds of  hedge businesses in the world . In this interview with Hedgeweek, Hugh Lawson outlines the scale of the business and its strategy in Europe.

Erik Jens, chief executive of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions, says the move into public ownership of its Dutch parent has reassured clients and even helped to win new prime brokerage business, and that the organisation is well placed to help hedge fund clients come through the current difficult market environment.

Jon Hitchon outlines recent changes at Deutsche Bank (DB) and reviews the key hedge fund trends tracked by the Global Prime Services business.

Andrew Collins outlines the global development of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions and also highlights some plans for 2006.

Sean Flynn outlines developments at UBS Fund Services, including the opening of a Toronto fund administration operation in 2006 to service the North American market.

Joost Lobler outlines the global development of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions, with funds under administration growing at over 40 per cent this year.

Peter Jones outlines the value-added S&P* fixed income securities evaluation services available to hedge fund managers and institutional investors.

Andrew Collins outlines recent developments at Butterfield Fund Services, including the appointment of a new Director of Marketing for Europe.

Nicholas Roe outlines the reorganisation of London-based Deutsche Bank's Global Prime Services unit, reviews key trends in 2004 and looks ahead at 2005.

Hideki Hashiguchi outlines recent developments in the Japanese hedge funds market, including the size and strategies of new fund launches and investor preferences.

Joanne Murphy, SVP Head of Sales, Asia-Pacific, Alternative Fund Services, HSBC, Hong Kong, outlines manager and investor trends in Australia.

Scott Epstein, Head of Alternative Fund Services at HSBC in San Francisco, and Jackie Tomecek, Director of Sales, outline West Coast investment trends.

London-based IG Markets is the broking subsidiary of IG Group. Tim Morris outlines IG Market's growing range of online trading services for emerging hedge fund managers.

Multi-manager Collins Stewart Asset Management has received an AA rating by Standard & Poor's for six funds of funds it manages. Kevin Boscher outlines the company's investment strategy and success with absolute returns.

Thaddée Tyl outlines the quantitative and systematic strategies that have shaped Rivoli Fund Management

Miguel Ramos Fuentenebro outlines the thinking behind Washington Square's recently launched innovative LSE-listed Carador CDO equity fund

Fred Siegrist provides a compelling insight into the thinking that underpins the investment processes at RMF, the asset management division of Man Group plc.

Asset managers and investors are starting to awaken to the potential offered by Africa after decades of misgovernment and economic stagnation. Mohammed Hanif, chief investment officer at Insparo Asset Management in London, says the firm's newly-launched Insparo Africa Fund offers investors currently underweight in the Middle East and Africa with focused exposure to an attractive if complicated region.

SVM Asset Management managing director Colin McLean says the SVM Highlander Fund he manages, which has returned an annualised 15.1 per cent since its launch in 1999, has avoided the problems of many long/short equity funds this year because it relies on long and short stock alpha rather a long bias or leverage to generate returns.

Mitsubishi Corporation invested USD39m last month to acquire a 19.5 per cent stake in Aladdin Capital Holdings, an alternative investment manager specialising in fixed-income hedge funds and collateralised debt obligations with USD17.5bn in assets under management. In this interview, Aladdin Capital chief executive Aminkhan Aladin explains why he believes the hedge fund industry is on the brink of another round of expansion.

Jay R Feuerstein describes Xenon Capital's 100 per cent systematic, short-term, multi-strategy, low-volatility approach

Christopher Lee outlines the re-structuring by CFM into multi-strategy and multi manager products producing much higher capacity and more diversification

Erich Bonnet speaks to Hedgeweek at length about ADI's current strategies and future plans

Oslo-based Dag Rosmo outlines Interkraft Capital Management's trading focus on the Nordic power markets and reveals plans to launch a new fund in 2006

Broadstone Fund Management, part of the Dublin-based Broadstone Capital Group, is preparing to launch two hedge fund strategies on the Irish Stock Exchange.

Stavros Loizou, chief executive of Lewis Charles Securities, says the Lewis Charles Abu Dhabi Property Fund, to be launched early next month, aims to use so-called cash deals involving unleveraged property to take advantage of huge imbalances between supply and demand forecast for Abu Dhabi over the next three to five years.

David Michelson, an advisor with Three Arch Investors, says the California Distressed Land Fund, which is being launched by sponsors and managers with experience of the last US residential property crisis in the 1990s, is perfectly placed to capitalise on the ongoing fall in the value of real estate to more affordable levels.

Simon Glossop, partner and chief investment officer at CF Partners, a London-based environmental finance firm specialising in carbon advisory and trading, explains why the firm is launching a carbon emissions hedge fund in November to exploit pricing inefficiencies and dislocations in carbon markets.

Charlie Metcalfe, chief executive of First State Investments, says the First State Media Fund has embarked on a fresh round of fundraising after investing virtually all its initial commitments on a diverse range of musical copyrights, and argues that media and entertainment assets tend to be more resilient than other sectors in times of recession.

Jerry Haworth examines the factors and investment thinking that have driven the significant performance of New Zealand-based 36 South's strategies in recent years.

Todd Voigt, manager of Cohen & Steers' Global Real Estate Long-Short strategy, which differentiates itself through bottom-up fundamental research combined with top-down thematic views, says the lack of history and research by other investors in the global real estate markets result in extremely attractive investment opportunities.

Manuel Alejandro Dopazo, managing director of London-based investment manager and corporate advisor Fincere, says that despite the recent impact on emerging markets of global financial turbulence, the world's developing economies are well placed to continue to build on their growth of the past few years.

Michael Wexler discusses the strategies and opportunities that are driving the Maple Leaf Macro Volatility Fund

Robert Macrae outlines the thinking and strategies that go into the Arcus Japan Fund

Kyle McKay outlines the investment discipline that is driving the performance of Leeward Hedge Funds' long/short North American equity fund

Andreas Rialas highlights the ideas and vision behind Argo Capital Management's emerging markets-focused funds

BDT Investment Management co-founders Henry Thornton and Rob Brewis outline the investment thinking that will drive their new BDT Invest Asia Fund

David Baker highlights the investment ideas that are driving the performance of Baker Steel's Genus Natural Resources Fund

Diego Wauters outlines the working of Coriolis Capital Limited, which focuses on strategies for the insurance/reinsurance sector

Ian Lancaster unveils the strategies and ideas that go into the working of the Stockbridge Fund

Paul Sloane, who researches and recommends global insurance and diversified financials stocks as co-manager of the Martin Currie Absolute Returns Fund - Global Financials, argues that the key to overall performance in the sector will be to what extent the real economy gets hit and how quickly mainstream credit - as opposed to exotic asset classes - deteriorates.

Barings' head of alternatives Paul Graham discusses the investment strategy that underpins the Baring Emerging Market Absolute Return Fund, which was launched in September.

Principal Tim Seymour outlines the investment thinking and processes that are driving Red Star's performance in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Ramiz Hasan and Simon Donne outline Invicta Chikara Japan Fund's focus on delivering consistent returns with an equity long/short approach

Dino Fuschillo, Lead Manager, outlines the strategy and investment process that underpins the performance of Martin Currie's European-focused fund

Michael Sonenshine outlines the thinking behind the New Europe Fund managed by MT Thaler, whose principals are based in London and Prague

Dino Fuschillo outlines how discipline of process, buy and sell decisions, and a focus on stock-picking are being using to generate results for his European fund

Dino Fuschillo outlines the strategy and investment process that underpins the performance of Martin Currie's European-focused fund.

Tim Gascoigne has nine years experience in the hedge funds industry and joined HRIL in 1996 after spending three years as an equity researcher and member of the strategy team with Mercury Asset Management.

Frederic Desage-Bonnet outlines the thinking behind the F&C Citrine Fund, which was launched in May 2004.

Ex-Trout Trading researcher Aaron Schindler spoke to Hedgeweek about the strategic thinking behind his Schindler Fund

Ben Helm and Alex McKnight, managers of the JB Convertible Bond Fund at Augustus Asset Managers, say the convertible bond market is now the most accessible market for capital-raising by corporates, which will lead to strong supply at relatively good valuations for investors.

John Tilney outlines the USD 180m Armajaro Commodities Fund, which soft-closed on 10 March 2005 and re-opened to new investors in October 2005.

Ross Hollyman, Investment Director responsible for UK and European equity mandates at GAM, discusses the strategy that underpins the new GAM Star Absolute EuroSystematic fund.

Peter Nicholas outlines the investment strategy and processes that drive EN Asset Management's Japan-focused fund

Conor O'Mara outlines the investment processes that drive the HSBC Global Technology Fund, which was launched on 1 September 2005.

The  Gartmore Global Equity Hedge Fund was launched on 1 March 2005 and is managed by Neil Rogan & Ben Walker. Current AUM (as at 31st July 2005) is USD 37million.

Veronika Hirsch, Chief Investment Officer & Lead Portfolio Manager of Canada's BluMont Capital, outlines the firm's investment approach, products and strategy.

Connective Capital Management portfolio manager Robert Romero says the Silicon Valley-based firm, which specialises in investing in the technology and alternative energy markets, has identified profitable short opportunities in consumer hardware and semiconductors and long opportunities in areas such as emerging energy infrastructure.

Gary West (photo) and James Inglis-Jones say the Liontrust European Long/Short Fund they manage has enjoyed solid growth this year amid the gloom for most hedge fund strategies by exploiting apparent contradictions: that more investment doesn't lead to more profit, but less investment can lead to greater profit.

Ezra Sun, manager of Veritas's Real Return Asia Fund, says that while Asia is set to suffer by proxy from the global economic slowdown, experiencing a reduction in domestic consumption and export growth, his fund's target return of around 15 per cent per annum is still achievable over the long term.

Farringdon Capital Management, founded in 2006 by Andreas Tholstrup and Bram Cornelisse, is an asset management firm specialising in fundamental long/short equity investing. In this interview, Tholstrup discusses the thinking behind the Farringdon Alpha One Fund.

Afsin Alp, a partner and portfolio manager with Meadowbrook Capital Management, says the Meadowbrook Beta Neutral Fund, which was officially launched to investors on July 1, has already demonstrated its uncorrelated performance characteristics by delivered its target return despite the recent turmoil in the markets.

Ken Murray outlines the single-minded concentration on financial stocks that lies behind the Blue Planet Global Financials Fund, which was launched in March 2006.

Paul Mulvaney highlights the trading and investment characteristics that are driving performance at Mulvaney Capital Management

Melissa Hill highlights the strategies and plans of Sabre Fund Management Ltd, including the launch of a higher risk/return version of its style arbitrage strategy

Stéphane Galzy discusses the current ideas and event-driven strategies on which IXIS European Events is focusing

Ricardo Maxit outlines Copernico's approach to exploiting volatility in Latin America, where a potential decrease in liquidity remains the biggest challenge

Ricardo Maxit outlines the central elements of Copernico's strategies that focus on producing consistent returns from the Latin American markets.

Tai Tam Capital's Hui-Wen Shiau and Jun-Tsiang Lam outline the thinking that is driving the investment strategy of their new Asian Global Macro Fund.

Adrian Owens and Andrew Snowball, managers of the JB Global Rates Hedge Fund at Augustus Asset Managers, say that as volatility subsides, they expect fundamental drivers to play an increased role as investors refocus on value and fundamentals.

Jason Gold describes Aurarian's investment strategy focused on unearthing and exploiting valuation inefficiencies in "under the radar" US equities.

Neil A Levy outlines Highpoint's investment processes and thinking on emerging healthcare and convergence opportunities

Geneva-based Eduard Seligman-Schürch outlines the background  and thinking  behind the launch of his new product, The Shearwater Fund

Michael Wexler, who founded Maple Leaf Capital LLP in 1992, outlines recent developments within the company's flagship volatility trading fund.

Dr. Stephen Dolbear outlines the strategy and investment philosophy that underpins the F&C Amethyst Fund, an equity volatility trading fund.