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ING Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund, ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund and ING Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund Declare Quarterly Distributions

ING Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund, ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund and ING Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund Declare Quarterly Distributions

Aberdeen acquires Credit Suisse fund arm

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Russia gets its first nanotechnology venture capital fund

(Nanowerk News) The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies will create the first venture capital investments fund, the assets of which will be used for the innovative projects’ financing. According to the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the fund will be formed as a closed-end mutual risk (venture) investment fund. The total amount of the fund will be estimated as 2 billion rubles (approx. $70 million), the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will raise money from the co-investors to the extent of 1 billion rubles. The management of the fund will be held by the Troika Dialog share holding.

ING Asia Pacific High Dividend Equity Income Fund, ING Global Advantage and

Premium Opportunity Fund, ING Global Equity Dividend and Premium Opportunity Fund, ING International High Dividend Equity Income Fund and ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund Announce Share-Repurchase Program

Hedge Fund Manager Acquires Long-only Fund Arm from Credit Suisse

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Hedge fund manager, Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, has entered into an agreement with Credit Suisse to acquire their £40 billion ($58 billion) long-only asset management arm, making Aberdeen the the UK’s largest listed fund manager.

Money-Market Fund Support Strains Fund Managers And Bank Sponsors

Once considered among the safest of investments, certain enhanced cash and money-market funds have joined the many that the global credit market downturn has affected as a result of declining net asset values (NAVs) in their underlying investments, according to a Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services report published today entitled, “Money-Market Fund Support Weighs On Fund Managers And Bank Sponsors.”

Madoff Exposure - Austria to run Bank Medici after Madoff damage, Hedge fund legend Steinhardt lost $2m through Ezra Merkin investment, UK pension fund faces GBP2m loss from exposure to Pioneer A.I., Hollywood star Kevin Bacon joins growing list of Madoff

Madoff Exposure – Austria to run Bank Medici after Madoff damage, Hedge fund legend Steinhardt lost $2m through Ezra Merkin investment, UK pension fund faces GBP2m loss from exposure to Pioneer A.I., Hollywood star Kevin Bacon joins growing list of Madoff victims, Cayman funds largely unaffected by Madoff affair

Banca Popolare raises EUR 750m for Eracle fund

Banca Popolare's Eracle real-estate fund has been fully subscribed by Italian and international institutional investors. The fund is believed to have raised around EUR 750 mln of equity according to news agency Reuters. Intesa Sanpaolo and Morgan Stanley acted as placement agents. The fund will be managed by Generali Immobiliare Sgr, an Italian asset management firm specialized in property funds.

HSBC creates $5 billion fund for businesses

LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings has created a $5 billion global working capital fund for small and medium-sized businesses to help them weather the credit crisis, the bank said on Sunday. One billion pounds ($1.47 billion) of the fund has been earmarked for customers in the United Kingdom, HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, added in a statement. Businesses in Hong Kong would also be targeted in the first phase of operations. The effects of the credit crisis mean that many businesses are finding funding hard to come by and relatively expensive despite cuts by central banks in benchmark lending rates. 'I am pleased that HSBC is using its financial strength to help our small business customers around the world by delivering this new $5 billion fund,' HSBC Group CEO Michael Geoghegan said in a statement.

HSBC creates $5 billion fund for businesses

LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings has created a $5 billion global working capital fund for small and medium-sized businesses to help them weather the credit crisis, the bank said on Sunday. One billion pounds ($1.47 billion) of the fund has been earmarked for customers in the United Kingdom, HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, added in a statement. Businesses in Hong Kong would also be targeted in the first phase of operations. The effects of the credit crisis mean that many businesses are finding funding hard to come by and relatively expensive despite cuts by central banks in benchmark lending rates. "I am pleased that HSBC is using its financial strength to help our small business customers around the world by delivering this new $5 billion fund," HSBC Group CEO Michael Geoghegan said in a statement.

HSBC unveils new $5bn global fund for SMEs

HONG KONG: Global banking giant HSBC has set up a $5 billion fund to help small and medium sized businesses get access to credit during the global financial crisis, the bank said. The fund represents money ‘over and above’ what the London-based bank would normally lend in the current business environment, and will be funded from its own resources, HSBC said in a statement. Such businesses in Britain will be able to apply for $1.47 billion of the fund, while those in Hong Kong will have access to 500 million, the bank said. The rest of the cash will support firms in other markets across the world. “This is a difficult time for business in many economies,” Michael Geoghegan, HSBC’s Group CEO, said in the statement issued Sunday. “Customers are rightly looking to see how banks can help.

Credit Suisse to retain fund of funds operation

Aberdeen is to take over Credit Suisse’s Global Investors business, its fund management arm, for Ł250m in June, subject to shareholder and regulator approval. But Credit Suisse’s fund of funds operation will not be included in the deal. The acquisition involves the long-only product range including fixed income, money market and equities – which has Ł40 billion in assets under management – but excludes the multi-manager arm. Therefore co-heads of the fund of funds range will continue to work for Credit Suisse.

The Supervisory Council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies approved the project on establishing the first closed-end mutual fund

The partner for this project was selected by the Corporation among the leading Russian business schools. It is the Moscow Management School SKOLKOVO, which will raise the 1 billion rubles adding to the fund's chartered capital. The total fund amount will reach 2 billion rubles. The Managing Company of the fund will be Troyka Dialog.

UBS fund invested $1.4 billion with Madoff: paper

A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

UBS fund said to have invested $1.4 billion with Madoff

A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion (934 million pounds) with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

UBS fund said to have invested $1.4 billion with Madoff

GENEVA: A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion (934 million pounds) with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

Linux Fund and gEDA Project partner to raise funds to boost gEDA/PCB usability

December 15th, 2008 - Linux Fund is pleased to announce that it has begun fundraising to enable gEDA Project developer DJ Delorie to enhance gEDA's flagship open source PCB layout program "PCB". This work will significantly upgrade PCB's usability and utility for electronics designers and educators, making it an attractive open source alternative to commercial PCB design tools. gEDA/PCB joins the VectorSection DWG interpreter project as part of Linux Fund's growing open engineering and hardware initiative.

Linux Fund and the Gnash Project partner to raise funds to support RTMP streaming media

December 15th, 2008 - Linux Fund is pleased to announce that it has begun fundraising to enable Gnash project developer Sandro Santilli to bring Real Time Messaging Protocol support to this open source Flash player. This project will enable users to enjoy streaming video from a number of popular web sites and the open source Red5, Cygnal and Dimdim servers. The Gnash/RTMP project joins the LiVES video editing project as part of Linux Fund's growing open media initiative.

UBS fund invested $1.4 billion with Madoff - paper

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

UBS fund invested $1.4 billion with Madoff: paper

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

HSBC survey: Fund managers positive on equities

KUALA LUMPUR: Fund managers foresee a potential upside to equities but hold mixed views on bonds and cash in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest HSBC survey of global fund managers.

UBS fund invested $1.4 billion with Madoff -paper

GENEVA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A Luxembourg-based fund run by Switzerland's biggest bank UBS invested $1.4 billion with Bernard Madoff, the U.S. fund manager accused of running a $50 billion fraud, Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said on Sunday.

Mutual fund inventor may face charges

BRUCE Bent, inventor of the money-market mutual fund, and his New York-based company may be charged by federal regulators with violating securities laws in the collapse of its US$63-billion Reserve Primary Fund.

GLG to buy fund management unit of Societe Generale

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm GLG Partners is to buy the UK fund management unit of French bank Societe Generale to diversify its business, as the hedge industry faces up to large-scale investor withdrawals.


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