FEBRUARY 17, 2010
King Street Capital is on the verge of closing its flagship fund to new investments
6 HEDGE FUND PERFORMANCE
2 Boyer Allen Boosts Japan Exposure
3 Citadel Sets Up Offshore Macro Fund
3 Dawson Hires Consultant for Key Job
3 Shumway Alum Tees Up Vehicle
3 Liongate Rewarded for Good Behavior
4 A Resurgent Contrarian Adds Staff
4 Hayground Spins Off a New Fund
6 Tech-Stock Specialists Launch Fund
7 Drake Alumni Market Debt Vehicle
8 MF Global to Fill More Openings
THE GRAPEVINE
Former Highbridge Capital energy-stock
specialist Jennifer Pomerantz resurfaced
this month with plans to start a hedge
fund with backing from PioneerPath
Capital. At Highbridge, Pomerantz was a
profitable portfolio manager for the
firm’s big multi-strategy fund.
PioneerPath, the hedge fund-seeding
business of Citadel Investment, has
invested an undisclosed amount of capi-
tal in Pomerantz’s new firm, Surveyor
Capital. She is teeing up a long/short
equity fund focused on the energy and
natural-resources sectors, though the
timing of her launch isn’t clear.
Two former Octavian Advisors investment
staffers who left the New York special-sit-
uations shop last year have landed new
jobs. Kevin Griffin, who headed Octavian’s
private-investment business, joined
Highbridge Capital in New York last
month. He is serving as Michael
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Fast-Growing King Street Might Cap Assets
after taking in more than $3 billion of fresh capital over the past 12 months.
At a time when most hedge fund managers were struggling with a mountain of
redemption requests, King Street’s overall assets under management jumped from
$15.8 billion in January 2009 to $19.2 billion last month. Perhaps it’s no wonder,
considering that the King Street Capital fund has never had a down year since
launching in 1995. In 2008, when hedge funds lost an average of 18%, the King
Street vehicle gained 2.5%. Last year, it returned 20.1%.
In a Feb. 5 letter to investors, the New York firm said it wants to “moderate the
future growth of the fund’s capital subject to developing market conditions.” One
investor said he was told that King Street doesn’t want to see overall assets under man-
agement exceed about $20 billion — suggesting the flagship fund could close to new
See KING on Page 8
Avenue Hires Larkin to Pitch Fund of Funds
Avenue Capital hired marketing executive John F. Larkin last month to raise
additional capital for a small fund of funds the firm manages alongside its better-
known single-manager vehicles.
Larkin, an alumnus of Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, joined as managing direc-
tor and global head of business development for the multi-manager fund, Avenue
Strategic Partners. Launched in November 2007, the vehicle has $216 million
under management.
Hiring someone of Larkin’s stature suggests the New York firm, which managed
$19.5 billion overall as of Nov. 30, is serious about expanding its multi-manager
business. Founded in 1995 by Marc Lasry and his sister, Sonia Gardner, Avenue is
known as a distressed-debt manager that invests primarily via hedge funds and
private equity vehicles.
Most recently, Larkin was in charge of marketing alternative investments across
See AVENUE on Page 4
DE Shaw’s Oculus Investors Finally Get Paid
D.E. Shaw has nearly finished paying back investors who sought to redeem
from its flagship Oculus fund at the height of the financial crisis, wrapping up the
process sooner than expected.
Like many other fund operators, Shaw was besieged with redemption requests
amid the financial-market turmoil of late 2008. In response, the New York firm
imposed investor-level “gates” that limited withdrawals from both D.E. Shaw
Oculus and a sister fund, D.E. Shaw Composite, to 12.5% of a shareholder’s cap-
ital per quarter. At that rate, Shaw was expected to take until late 2010 to finish
paying redeeming investors.
But last month, Shaw told Oculus investors it was lifting the gate and would
be able to fully repay them this month.
For many shareholders, however, the accelerated payment schedule was too
little, too late. Investors are still annoyed that the multi-strategy firm restricted
See SHAW on Page 6
February 17, 2010 Hedge Fund ALERT 2

alone. Investment giant BlackRock includes Japan among its

Boyer Allen Boosts Japan Exposure “strong convictions” for 2010. Martin Currie, a $19 billion
Boyer Allan Investment Management is betting big on Japan. hedge fund operator in Edinburgh, is out raising fresh capital
Even as many other investors remain skeptical about Japan’s for its Japan fund, which currently has $274 million of assets.
growth prospects, the London firm has a “strong conviction” “On Japan, there’s a tug-of-war going on between pes-
that Japanese equities remain significantly undervalued. simism and optimism,” said Jean Keller, chief executive of 3A,
Accordingly, the $355 million Boyer Allan Pacific Fund is Banque Syz’s fund-of-funds business. “Investors have a
increasing its allocation to Japan, reversing a three-year trend. dichotomous view. They either love it or hate it — there’s no
At the same time, the firm is trying to raise additional capital middle ground.”
for a dedicated Japan fund that currently has just $20 million Boyer Allen, which manages $750 million overall via five
under management. Asia-focused hedge funds, believes that valuations for
Boyer Allan’s view may be contrarian, but the firm isn’t Japanese stocks are, on average, at their lowest point since the
country’s financial crisis of the
early 1990s. “At the very least, we
think that Japanese equities are an
attractive trading opportunity
from here,” the firm said in a recent
investor presentation.
But Boyer Allen also sees a real
possibility for a sustained bull mar-
ket in Japan. That’s because the
newly elected Democratic Party is
working hard to stimulate domes-
tic demand. Investors, meanwhile,
are still valuing Japan as though
corporate profits will remain
depressed.
In any case, the real test for
Japan-focused managers will be
attracting capital, which has been
difficult since 2006. “There’s a huge
amount of interest, but not a flood
of money,” said Boyer Allan chief
executive Roger Denby-Jones, a
Goldman Sachs alumnus. “People
Reach for deeper liquidity: SIGMA X have said, ‘I can see why this could
work, but I’d like to wait for the
first 10% rise in equities before
committing,’” Denby-Jones said.
The Boyer Allen Japan fund rose
5% in 2008 and 4% in 2009. Its best
year was 2005, when it gained 45%.
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Citadel Sets Up Offshore Macro Fund
Citadel Investment is marketing an offshore version of its
year-old global-macro fund.
The Cayman Islands entity began trading two weeks ago with
about $7 million. The U.S.-domiciled Citadel Global Macro Fund
has raised about $140 million since setting sail in early 2009.
The Chicago firm, headed by hedge fund icon Ken Griffin, is
actively marketing both the domestic and offshore vehicles in a
bid to drum up interest in the global-macro strategy. Citadel
manages about $12 billion overall.
Overseeing the global-macro funds is London-based portfo-
lio manager Kavey Alamouti. He also manages the global-macro
book for Citadel’s flagship multi-strategy funds — U.S.-domi-
ciled Wellington and offshore Kensington. Overall, Citadel has
about $1 billion of global-macro investments. Before joining
Citadel last year, Alamouti worked at Moore Capital in New York.
Citadel’s global-macro funds are among a handful of single-
strategy vehicles the firm decided to launch at the end of 2008,
after Wellington and Kensington suffered severe losses and the
firm suspended redemptions from the multi-strategy funds. ❖
Dawson Hires Consultant for Key Job
As he continues his search for a new partner, fund manag-
er Jonathan Dawson has bolstered his firm, Dawson Capital, by
tapping veteran stock picker Jedd Bonnem.
Bonnem, an alumnus of Perry Capital and his own Cadmus
Capital, joined Dawson’s Southport, Conn., firm Feb. 1 on a
consulting basis. While Bonnem has told some market players
that he isn’t looking for a full-time position, others see the con-
sulting gig as an audition for a job as Dawson’s partner. Russell
Herman, Dawson’s former partner, left the firm last year after
telling investors he was shutting the firm’s main vehicle,
Southport Millennium Fund, in the wake of severe losses.
Dawson is now trying to rebuild a firm that has shrunk dra-
matically since the financial crisis. Assets under management
have fallen from a peak of just over $3 billion in early 2008 to
around $450 million today. Dawson Capital continues to man-
age other long/short equity vehicles under the Southport ban-
ner, with most of the firm’s 25 employees working in a New
York office.
It’s unclear exactly what role Bonnem is playing as a con-
sultant to Dawson. After a stint at Richard Perry’s hedge fund
firm, Bonnem left in 2002 to launch Cadmus Capital with
another Perry alumnus, Chris Vulliez. Bonnem shuttered the
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firm in early 2008 after assets under management, which once
topped $1 billion, had sunk to about $20 million.
In the wake of Herman’s departure, Dawson has been
searching for what would be his fourth partner since launch-
ing the firm in 1981. His first partner, Art Samberg, left in 1999
to form Pequot Capital, which shut down last year amid an
insider-trading investigation. Dawson’s next partner was
Anthony Giammalva, followed by Herman. ❖
Shumway Alum Tees Up Vehicle
Matthew Crakes, a former managing director at Shumway
Capital, is going solo with a hedge fund that would focus on
emerging markets.
Crakes has set up a firm, Greenhart Capital, and is target-
ing April 1 for the launch of a long/short equity vehicle. He
previously was an emerging-markets specialist at Shumway
Capital, an $8 billion fund operator founded by Tiger
Management alumnus Chris Shumway. Last month,
Shumway announced that Petershill Fund, a private equity
vehicle run by Goldman Sachs, had taken an 8% stake in his
Greenwich, Conn., firm.
Before working at Shumway Capital, Crakes was a sell-
side analyst at Merrill Lynch. ❖
Liongate Rewarded for Good Behavior
Fund-of-funds manager Liongate Capital has seen a sharp
rise in mandates from institutional investors, defying predic-
tions by some that pension plans and insurance companies
would steer clear of hedge fund investments in the wake of the
financial crisis.
Since December, the London firm has raked in some $400
million of investments, mostly from European pension sys-
tems, insurers in Europe and Asia and sovereign-wealth funds
in Asia and the Middle East. A handful of U.S. pension plans
also have written checks.
The investments bring Liongate’s overall assets under manage-
ment to $2.6 billion — and capital continues to flow in at a rate of
about $140 million per month. Roughly 70% of the firm’s asset
base is now institutional money, compared to 60% a year ago.
Many industry observers expected that pension plans and
other conservative investors would head for the hills following
the market debacle in late 2008. While some have, others have
selectively increased their investments in hedge funds, favoring
strategies and managers that treated limited partners well dur-
ing the downturn. Case in point: Liongate did not suspend
redemptions or otherwise clamp down on liquidity in late 2008
and early 2009, even as many other managers were hitting the
panic button.
“Investors are rewarding prudent navigation of risk through
a problematic period for the whole industry,” said Randall
Dillard, Liongate’s chief executive.
Most of the recent inflows have come from six institutional
players that have made direct investments in Liongate Multi-
Strategy Fund. ❖
February 17, 2010 Hedge Fund
A Resurgent Contrarian Adds Staff
After reversing severe losses, distressed-debt shop
Contrarian Capital is adding to its headcount once again.
Last month, the Greenwich, Conn., firm hired Mark
Crawley to help manage structured-product investments, and
trade-claims specialist Kimberly Gianis also came aboard.
Contrarian’s staff now numbers 53 — above its peak level prior
to the financial crisis.
The hires follow a difficult year when the firm lost several
key executives in the wake of sharp losses and heavy redemp-
tions. The flagship Contrarian Capital Fund lost 26% in 2008,
but came roaring back last year with a 42% gain. The fund rose
another 1.5% in January.
Assets under management also have begun to rebound.
After bottoming out below $2.6 billion in mid-2009, the firm’s
overall assets have risen to about $3.3 billion. Contrarian
peaked just over $5 billion in mid-2007.
Crawley previously was a director at hedge fund shop
Waterfall Asset Management of New York. Before that, he spent
seven years at financial consultant PentAlpha in Greenwich.
Gainis joined Contrarian from Deutsche Bank, where she spent
four years working on trade claims.
News of the hires was tempered by yet another departure.
Edward Scott, who joined 18 months ago to help Contrarian
with a private equity vehicle, left Jan. 29 for parts unknown.
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People familiar with the firm said it had second thoughts
about the vehicle after it struggled to raise capital.
Contrarian was founded in 1995 by three former Oppenheimer
staffers: Jon Bauer, Gil Tenzer and Janice Stanton. ❖
Hayground Spins Off a New Fund
The best-performing portfolio manager from Hayground
Cove’s long/short equity fund has been given a hedge fund of
his own.
On Feb. 1, the New York alternative-asset manager
launched Raido Fund with about $50 million from the firm’s
partners. At the helm is Mark Soloway, one of three portfolio
managers working on the flagship Hayground Cove Capital
Partners Fund. That vehicle has about $300 million under
management.
Soloway has been with Hayground since chief executive
Jason Ader founded the firm six years ago. Prior to that,
Soloway was an equity analyst at Bear Stearns. Last year, his
portfolio gained 33%, net of fees, following a 22% loss in 2008.
Soloway takes concentrated positions in highly liquid stocks.
His new fund offers quarterly liquidity with no lock-up period.
Hayground Cove and its affiliates have about $3 billion of
assets under management. In addition to hedge funds, the
assets include real estate, an equity stake in a bank and a hotel
business in India. ❖
Avenue ... From Page 1
the Americas at Deutsche. Prior to that, he was co-head of
third-party distribution at Citigroup Alternative Investments.
Avenue’s fund of funds draws on the firm’s expertise in ana-
lyzing and acquiring distressed and illiquid securities. It tar-
gets hedge fund managers that invest in distressed and high-
yield debt, the equity of companies undergoing restructuring,
event-driven situations, private lending and trade claims,
among other strategies.
The vehicle is managed by Robert Russell, a former portfo-
lio manager at Harvard Management. New England Patriots
quarterback Tom Brady is a general partner in Avenue Strategic
Partners.
Avenue is among a number of large hedge fund managers
that operate funds of funds on the side. Citadel Investment,
Man Group and Moore Capital also have launched multi-man-
ager vehicles in an effort to diversify their revenue streams and
broaden their investor bases. ❖
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quarter.
Tech-Stock Specialists Launch Fund The funds’ offering memoranda permit the firm to erect
Two veteran technology-stock analysts are marketing a gates. It exercised that option in late 2008 in order to retain a
long/short equity fund they began trading this month from a war chest large enough to exploit an anticipated rebound in
newly established firm in San Francisco. the market.
San Francisco Investment Management launched SFIM Founded in 1988 by David Shaw, the firm’s overall assets
Opportunities Fund with about $5 million of friends-and-fam- under management fell to about $27 billion in January from
ily money. Partners Dane Lewis and Andrew DeSomma are now a peak of $36 billion in 2008.
trying to raise outside capital. Despite investor nervousness, the Oculus fund finished
Both Lewis and DeSomma hail from large San Francisco 2008 with a 7% gain, compared to an industry-average loss of
hedge fund shops. Before launching SFIM last year, Lewis was 18%. Last year, Oculus gained 9%. It is about flat for 2010. ❖
an analyst at the $1.5 billion Crosslink Capital. DeSomma pre-
viously worked at the $1.3 billion Artis Capital.
The two met while working at boutique investment bank
Robertson Stevens, which raised capital for technology start-
ups during the late 1990s. After the tech bubble burst, the Hedge Fund Performance
San Francisco firm was shuttered in 2002 by parent Jan. 2009
FleetBoston. ❖ Return Return
(%) (%)
BENCHMARK INDICES
Millennium Alum Markets First Fund S&P 500 -3.60 26.46
Event-driven manager Ironsides Partners is marketing its Russell 2000 -3.73 25.21
MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australia, Far East: net) -4.44 27.75
debut hedge fund after running money for Israel “Izzy” Barclays Aggregate Bond 1.53 5.63
Englander’s Millennium Management for the past three years.
The Boston firm, founded in 2007 by ex-Millennium port- Barclay/Global HedgeSource -0.28 24.12
1,900+ funds (unweighted)
folio manager Robert Knapp, started trading Ironsides
Opportunity Fund last month with less than $50 million. The CogentHedge -0.88 16.48
fund will be showcased by Goldman Sachs’ capital-introduc- 3,100+ funds (unweighted)
Arbitrage -0.01 26.94
tion team at an emerging-managers conference Goldman is Event-driven 1.06 26.66
hosting on Feb. 24 in New York. Fixed income 0.76 20.77
Knapp ran an event-driven book for Millennium from 1996 Long/short -0.90 21.83
to 2006. At Ironsides, he has focused on four main strategies: Global macro -0.83 7.17
closed-end fund arbitrage, emerging markets, natural Multi-fund -0.66 9.99
Sector -0.86 33.98
resources and distressed debt. Between Millennium’s account Trading -2.44 0.88
and the new hedge fund, Ironsides has $50 million to $100 Regional -0.68 27.14
million under management. ❖
Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index 0.17 18.57
400+ funds (unweighted)
Shaw ... From Page 1 Dow Jones
withdrawals even though it invests largely in liquid securi- Hedge fund strategy benchmarks
Equity long/short -0.28 4.88
ties, including futures and options, and had enough cash on Event driven 0.70 15.54
hand at yearend 2008 to support most of the redemption Merger arbitrage -0.06 8.31
requests.
Hennessee Hedge Fund Advisory -0.50 24.85
Oculus had $8.8 billion of assets at yearend 2009. D.E. 1,000+ funds (unweighted)
Shaw Composite, which targets more illiquid investments,
continues to gate investors, paying them a percentage each HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average -0.78 19.44
4,900+ funds (unweighted)
HFRI Fund Weighted Composite -0.71 20.03
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The fund allows investors to withdraw quarterly with notice

Drake Alumni Market Debt Vehicle of six months. However, limited partners can opt for an expe-
Two former Drake Management portfolio managers are dited 30-day notice period if they’re willing to forfeit 10% of
pitching institutional investors and seeding firms on a debt- the amount withdrawn. The managers are charging a 1.5%
focused hedge fund they launched last month. management fee and 20% performance fee.
David Hinman and Raymond Zucaro began trading SW Hinman ran the global-credit business at Drake, a hedge
Global Credit Opportunity Fund with only a couple of million fund and long-only manager that closed its doors last year
dollars they raised from friends and family. Their goal now is after suffering huge losses during the credit crisis. Before that,
to find a few large investors that would allow them to quickly he spent 10 years at Pimco. Zucaro ran Drake’s emerging-mar-
ramp up assets under management. ket portfolio. They both left the New York firm in July 2009.
The fund is being managed via SW Asset Management, a Drake, which peaked at $11.5 billion under management in
Newport Beach, Calif., firm Hinman and Zucaro founded late 2008, is in the final stages of unwinding its flagship Drake
last year. The vehicle invests in the debt of emerging-market Global Opportunities Fund, which fell nearly 57% from late
companies, primarily in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 2007 through March 2009. At this point, the fund is mainly
but also in Africa and the Middle East. In its first month, the running money for Drake’s founders, Steve Lutrell and Anthony
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MF Global to Fill More Openings
Trade-execution and clearing firm MF Global is on a hiring
spree, looking to scoop up hedge fund veterans to fuel the
expansion of its U.S. equities derivatives business.
The New York firm began interviewing hedge fund profes-
sionals last month to fill openings on a new equities and deriv-
atives trading desk. Kumaran Vijayakumar, a former Bank of
America executive who last month took the reins of MF
Global’s U.S. equity derivatives business, is looking to hire 6-10
sales staffers and traders.
Matthew Shatz, head of electronic trading services, includ-
ing high-frequency trading, is also hiring. He’s looking to fill
three positions on his team, after adding David Richter and
Michael Forsythe on Jan. 4. Like Shatz, Richter and Forsythe
recently came over from MF Global rival NewEdge, a Paris
clearing and brokerage firm jointly owned by Calyon and
Societe Generale.
MF Global, formerly known as Man Financial, is one of the
largest brokers of futures and options. It began expanding its
equities derivatives business last year. The firm also has brought
on several new professionals in its fixed-income group in hopes
of winning Federal Reserve approval of its application to serve as
a primary dealer of U.S. government securities. Those steps are
being made as the firm seeks to add more hedge funds and other
types of institutional investors to its client roster.
Peter Forlenza, global head of equities, said the firm will
hire more people as MF Global expands its businesses in
Europe and Asia. Forlenza, former global head of equities at
Bank of America and co-founder of New York hedge fund
operator OutPost Investment Group, joined MF Global in
October. ❖
King ... From Page 1
investments any day.
At the same time, the firm told investors it was tweaking
the fund’s liquidity terms. Previously, the fund permitted with-
drawals of up to 25% of overall assets per quarter. Now, King
Street is switching to an investor-level limit of 25% per quar-
ter. That means investors can withdraw up to 25% of their cap-
FNENU
ital every three months — regardless of the total volume of
redemptions for that period.
“This is about them managing their liquidity,” one investor
said, “but there are probably those who got stuck in 2008 who
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will like the changes.”
In a separate letter to investors, King Street also announced
that firm co-founder Brian Higgins once again would serve as
investment chief following the retirement next month of head
trader Kieran Goodwin.
King Street, which specializes in distressed-debt invest-
ments, has posted phenomenal performance and growth fig-
ures since the credit crisis began. Assets under management
have jumped by more than 50%, from $12.1 billion in January
2008 — catapulting the firm to the top ranks of hedge fund
managers globally. Since its inception, the flagship fund has
generated an average annual return of 15%.
Most other large hedge fund managers have seen their
assets decline sharply in the wake of severe losses in 2008.
Indeed, according to various estimates, the industry’s total
assets under management fell from just under $2 trillion in
2008 to around $1.5 trillion in late 2009.
Still, in the wake of strong gains last year, there are signs
that other big fund managers may limit or bar new invest-
ments. In December, Tudor Investment entered talks with
shareholders about returning some of their money after the
firm’s assets under management swelled to $9.4 billion. In a
yearend report, Morgan Stanley predicted that more “blue-chip
managers will once again close their funds to new capital” fol-
lowing a successful 2009. ❖
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Feb. 25 P.E. Fundraising From Family Off. & Wealthy Individuals New York Capital Roundtable www.capitalroundtable.com
Feb. 25-26 Emerging Markets Investor Forum New York Private Equity Intl. www.peimedia.com
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Patterson’s lieutenant on a new
corporate-credit fund that’s expected to
grow to $1 billion by yearend. Two weeks
ago, equity analyst Markus Homor joined
a new event-driven proprietary-trading
unit at Societe Generale in New York.
The unit is headed by Citadel Investment
alumnus Wayne Yu.
Sanem Tatlidil started last week as head
of investor relations for startup incuba-
tion firm Stride Capital of New York.
Tatlidil, who is a partner at Stride, previ-
ously worked at New York fund-of-funds
operator Archery Capital. Stride is headed
by Don Rogers, who has spent 15 years in
the hedge fund-seeding business, includ-
ing a stint at Skybridge Capital.
David Memmott left Morgan Stanley last
week to head the trading desk at ISI
Group, a New York broker-dealer that
caters to hedge funds, long-only man-
agers and pension funds. Memmott
spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, includ-
ing five years heading the equity-trading
desk. He is currently on gardening leave
until mid-April.
Jennifer Strickland, who formerly
worked in investor relations for HBK
Capital of Dallas, starts this week at $4.5
billion hedge fund shop BlueMountain
Capital of New York. She will handle
investor relations and sales, reporting to
BlueMountain co-founder Stephen
Siderow.
Michelle Sweda has rejoined UBS’ capi-
tal-introduction team in Chicago, where
she worked from 2005 to late 2008 before
taking a job at commodity-trading advi-
sor 2100 Xenon. She now reports to
Charlotte Burkeman, head of UBS’ cap-
intro team.
Researcher Dustin Cappalletto left Verition
Fund Management last month. The
Greenwich, Conn., multi-strategy firm is
now scouting for a replacement. Verition’s
chief, Nicholas Maounis, led Amaranth
Advisors before that firm collapsed in
2006 because of a bad bet on natural gas.
Suzanne Heske, who had been selling
Fidelity Investment’s prime-brokerage
services until Jan. 24, is now in the
recruiting business. She joined San
Francisco search firm Innovations PSI
this month. Heske has spent 15 years in
the financial-services business, primarily
in the hedge fund industry.
Bob Kulperger joined the hedge fund
team at third-party marketer Park Hill
Group last month. Kulperger is a princi-
pal in the firm’s San Francisco office. He
previously spent seven months in the
sales and marketing group of New York
hedge fund operator Fir Tree Partners.
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U.S. marketing at Toronto-based
Northwater Capital.
A slew of hedge fund operators —
including Caxton Associates, Davidson
Kempner, J.P. Morgan Asset Management,
Paulson & Co., Perella Weinberg Partners
and Third Avenue Management — are
considering a play for troubled
Blockbuster Video. Competition from
Netflix and digital video recorders has
eroded Blockbuster’s customer base,
forcing the sale of assets. But potential
acquirers believe the company still has
plenty of value left to salvage.

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