BlueCrest Said to Hire DW Investment’s Heelan to Build ABS Group (SFGate)
BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, the $35 billion hedge-fund firm run by former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader Michael Platt, hired 
Hedge Fund Tipster’s Sister Settles With SEC (FINalternatives)
ThanhHa Bao agreed to pay $145,000 and to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years, the SEC said yesterday. Bao allegedly gave her brother, Tai Nguyen, confidential quarterly earnings information about medical-device maker Abaxis Inc., where she worked in the finance department. Her brother pleaded guilty last year to passing those tips to two hedge fund managers, Barai Capital Management founder Samir Barai and former SAC Capital Advisors analyst Noah Freeman.
Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index reports gains of 0.22% in February, 2.33% year to date (Opalesque)
The March issue of the Eurekahedge Report reveals that the hedge fund sector has more than $1.8tln under management and enjoyed positive returns across all regions in 2012 – with Asia ex-Japan as the best performing with 12.14% of gains. The performance update for February hedge funds finds that after a strong showing in January on the back of resurgent risk appetite and rallying markets, hedge funds delivered a more muted performance in February as risk aversion increased during the month. The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 0.22% during the month, outperforming the underlying markets which finished in negative territory. The MSCI World Index was down 0.07% in February.
Ennismore is Latest Hedge fund With a Cupid Love Affair (Value Walk)
London-based hedge fund Ennismore Fund Management, seems to think that Cupid PLC (LON:CUP)’s downward journey is not ending anytime soon. The fund reopened its short bet on April 3 after covering it entirely, and the negative position is now 2.22 percent of the online dating company. Cupid PLC (LON:CUP) has been surrounded by allegations of fake profiles which the company has denied vehemently but it seems as if Ennismore is not buying it. The company is a favorite short among hedge funds. Despite the stock’s rising performance and reaffirmation of stock ratings, Odey Asset Management seems undeterred in its short bet in Apr Energy PLC (LON:APR), which was increased yesterday from 1.39 percent to 1.85 percent outstanding shares.
Ex-Icahn’s Denner Said to Start Activist Health-Care Hedge Fund (Bloomberg)
Alex Denner, Carl Icahn’s former top health-care investing executive, is starting an activist hedge- fund firm called Sarissa Capital Management LP, according to three people familiar with the matter. Denner, 43, will begin Greenwich, Connecticut-based Sarissa by next quarter with a seed investment from Meritage Group LP, one of the people said. He will be joined by Mayu Sris, a former investment analyst at Icahn Associates Corp. from 2005 to 2010, as managing director at Sarissa and Richard Mulligan, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, as senior managing director, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
Blackstone, Canyon Capital, D. E. Shaw, Fortress and Goldman Sachs Among More Than Sixty Manager Nominees in Institutional Investor Magazine’s Hedge Fund Industry Awards (Houston Chronicle)
Institutional Investor magazine’s announces 65 manager nominees in 14 categories in its 11th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. The awards recognize the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, seeder firms, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, family offices, corporate funds, sovereign funds and public funds that stood out for their innovation, achievements and contributions to the industry in 2012, as well as Rising Stars of the industry whose individual accomplishments in, and contributions to, the industry make them standout among their peers and position them as future industry leaders. Investor nominees, Rising Stars and Lifetime Achievement and Outstanding Contribution award winners will be announced in…
