Tiger Vet Establishing Multi-Manager VentureA Tiger Management alumnus who most recently ran the University of

Virginia’s $1.7 billion endowment is setting up a fund-of-funds operation.Michael Bills is eyeing an elite group of hedge-fund managers for the planned

fund, called Bluestem Partners. He intends to start trading the Charlottesville, Va.,entity in July with an undisclosed amount of capital. The fund — whose princi-pals include Tim Davis, a former hedge-fund analyst at the University of Virginia— expects to take in as much as $200 million of additional cash on Jan. 1, 2004.

Bluestem won’t disclose the identities of the funds that will receive its alloca-tions. But Bills’ membership in the fraternity of Julian Robertson’s prolific “Tigercubs” is expected to give him access to many of the industry’s top players.

For that reason, and because the University of Virginia’s endowment rakedin large profits and made heavy hedge-fund bets under Bills’ guidance, Bluestemwill probably have an easy time attracting investors. Bills initially joined Tiger

See TIGER on Page 6

Team Puts Finishing Touches on Arb FundThe former head of HBK Investment’s Japanese unit is getting ready to start a

global multi-arbitrage fund with three partners.Bill Park expects to start trading his Aviator Partners and its non-U.S. com-

panion, Aviator Overseas, on July 1 with $100 million. He and his partners willmanage the vehicles through their New York firm, Aviator Fund Management.

They will close the vehicle to new investors on July 1, but continue to acceptmoney gradually from the original investors. They expect to have $250 millionunder management at yearend.

Aviator aims to produce average annual returns of 12-15%, after fees equal to 2% of assets and 20% of profits. It has a minimum investment requirement of $1 million. The partners hope to distinguish themselves based on their expert-ise with various arbitrage techniques, shifting the firm’s capital among thestrategies and adding new ones as needed. Park, who worked as a portfolio

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Partners Shut Down Firm After Two DecadesDallas hedge-fund shop Regal Asset Management has shut down.The 19-year-old firm returned $300 million this month to investors in Regal

Trading Partners because partners Howard Rachofsky and Beau Purvis are retiring,said president Bill Ward, who is leaving the firm to start his own fund.

The managers decided to end their short-term trading operation after RegalTrading lost about 2.5% in 2002 — the first calendar-year loss it suffered sincea 4% drop in 1984, it’s first year of operation.

Ward plans to launch Headstream Value Partners on May 1, probably with $50million. Joining him will be Josh Smith, one of Regal’s top portfolio managers.Smith’s investments in small- and mid-cap value stocks generated averageannual gains of 23.5% during his eight-and-a-half years at Regal. Smith willserve as Headstream’s lead portfolio manager, although Ward will participate instock selection. Headstream will have more of a long bias than Regal. ❖

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Jason Huemer has left his post as chiefoperating officer at York Capital to joinSynthesis Asset Management, a $1 bil-lion fund-of-funds shop in New York.Huemer started at Synthesis on April15. Word has it he’ll spend some ofhis time there helping to build anoperation that will seed start-up fundmanagers. Huemer had been at York,an event-driven shop in New York, forthree-and-a-half years.

New York asset-management firmNeuberger Berman has lured BarbaraDoran from Selalu Partners, a hedge-fund marketing concern. Doran joinedNeuberger April 20 as an institutionalsales staffer selling the firm’s stockresearch to hedge funds. She reports to the head of Neuberger’s equity divi-sion, Jack Rivkin, who she once workedfor at Lehman Brothers. By jumping toNeuberger, she has given up her part-

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Macro Player Opens to OutsidersA U.K. firm is accepting outside capital for a global-

macro vehicle it has been incubating for the past 10 monthswith impressive results.

Emergent Asset Management eventually hopes to run $1billion via its Emergent Cosmopolitan Macro Fund, which itofficially launched last month with just $7.5 million of cap-ital. Since Emergent started trading the entity on June 1,2002, it has produced a net gain of 38.7%.

Going forward, chief investment officer David Murrin and

senior fund manager Fergus Murison —who are co-managingthe fund — will seek average annual returns of 20%, afterfees equal to 1.5% of assets and 20% of profits. EmergentCosmopolitan has a minimum investment requirement of$500,000, subject to the managers’ discretion.

The managers intend to hold four to six positions withineach of two to five strategies at any given time, making lever-aged investments in stocks, bonds, commodities, currenciesand derivative instruments.

Murrin, who helped start the firm in 1996, brings adiverse background to the fund. He briefly worked in oil

exploration in Papua New Guineabefore joining J.P. Morgan in 1986.While at J.P. Morgan, Murrin trad-ed a variety of products beforestarting the bank’s European mar-ket-analysis group in 1991. He leftthe bank in 1993 to start his ownfirm, Apollo Analysis. He is also amilitary historian.

Murison has held high-levelpositions in the global capital-markets groups at J.P. Morgan,HSBC and Tokyo-MitsubishiInternational, where he workedmost recently as the head of allsales and trading activity. He istrained as an accountant and spe-cializes in bonds, as well as inter-est-rate and currency derivatives.

Emergent Cosmopolitan is thethird fund for Emergent AssetManagement, which is 10%owned by Toronto-Dominion Bankand has never sought outside cap-ital before. The firm currently runs$40 million. Its oldest fund,Emergent Alternative, has producedan average annual return of 11%over the last four years by follow-ing an emerging-markets macrodebt strategy. Emergent Ballistic, anemerging-markets macro equityfund, has returned a cumulative68% over the last two years. ❖

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JP Morgan Preps Registered VehicleJ.P. Morgan Chase’s alternative-investments unit is gear-

ing up to start trading an SEC-registered fund of funds atmidyear.

The J.P. Morgan Atlas Global Long/Short Equity Fund, man-aged by senior analysts Mihir Meswani and Aamer Zahid, willattempt to outperform Morgan Stanley Capital International’sMSCI World Index by allocating money to 12 to 20 hedgefunds.

Atlas Global has a minimum investment requirement of$2 million. Investors must pony up at least $100,000 for eachadditional installment.

The number of multi-manager funds that are registeredwith the SEC is growing rapidly. Many are trying to reachindividual investors who want the extra disclosure thatcomes with registration. But some public hedge funds areseeking pension-fund investors whose holdings of unregis-tered investments are limited by law. ❖

Swiss Firm Touts New Marketing UnitA financial-services firm in Geneva is seeking hedge-fund

clients for a marketing business that it just launched.The five-year-old firm, called Sphinx Consulting, is partic-

ularly interested in representing long/short, global-macroand convertible-arbitrage funds. It’s primarily interested inentities that produce the consistent returns favored by itsSwiss institutional investors.

Sphinx’s plan is to represent just one fund in each strate-gy. In exchange for its services, it will charge an up-frontretainer and will take a cut of the annual management andincentive fees applied to the capital it places with its fundcustomers.

The new venture is headed by Edward M. Karr, Sphinx’scapital-markets manager. Two other Sphinx employees cur-rently work under him, and the firm may hire additionalstaffers for the effort.

Sphinx performs a variety of services for its clients,including accounting, trustee, private-banking and asset-management work. To avoid conflicts of interest, it won’trecommend its hedge-fund clients to its asset-managementcustomers. ❖

Manager Seeks ‘Mutual-Fund Timers’Weston Capital Management has rejiggered its two-year-old

Wimbledon Timing, a vehicle that allocates money to so-called mutual-fund timers.

The Westport, Conn., firm recently added two unidenti-fied funds to the Wimbledon portfolio. Until it made thoseadditions, Weston was funneling all of the portfolio’s capitalto just one mutual-fund timer. It’s seeking to allocate moneyto other hedge-fund managers who whip money amongstock and bond mutual funds, as well as cash positions,

based on market conditions.Wimbledon is emphasizing managers who invest in over-

seas funds, as opposed to vehicles that trade only U.S. stocks.Such mutual-fund timers often plow money into interna-tional funds just as the stock market closes in the U.S.,attempting to exploit the impact overseas.

Wimbledon Timing currently has more than $21 mil-lion under management. Weston believes the vehicle’s sizewill more than triple in the near future, based on thechanges it made on April 1. ❖

Investorforce Briefs Brokers on MarketingInvestorforce’s newest side business is quickly gaining

steam.In January, the Wayne, Pa., company started advising bro-

kerages on how to market hedge funds to investors withoutrunning afoul of regulatory restrictions. The service hasalready attracted five clients, whose staffers are receivingbasic product-and-sales training, including an explanationof the strict marketing limits for hedge funds.

The initiative has also helped Investorforce get its foot inthe door for other consulting services, such as helping onebrokerage find a new manager for a fund of funds it is strug-gling to run on its own.

Brokerage houses need such consulting, in part, becausetheir employees need to learn the basics of hedge funds asinvestors increasingly clamor for the investment vehicles. It’sno coincidence that Investorforce started offering the servicethe same month that the National Association of SecuritiesDealers instructed Wall Street players to take better steps toensure that they’re selling hedge funds to investors with suf-ficient levels of sophistication.

Investorforce is known mostly for its analytics tools thatinvestors use to compare returns of traditional money man-agers and the Investorfoce database of hedge funds, former-ly known as the Altvest database. It also sells marketing serv-ices to money managers. ❖

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(Mil.) Aviator Partners/Aviator Overseas Domicile: U.S. and Cayman Islands ☛ SEE PAGE 1

Bill Park Aviator Fund Management, New York ir@aviatorfund.com

Global multi-strategy arbitrage

Prime broker: Morgan Stanley Law firm: Schulte Roth Auditor: PricewaterhouseCoopers

July 1 $100

Emergent Cosmopolitan Macro Fund Domicile: Bermuda ☛ SEE PAGE 2

David Murrin and Fergus Murison Emergent Asset Management, London 44-142-865-6966

Global macro Prime broker: Citigroup Law firm: Eversheds Auditor: Deloitte & Touche Administrator: Citco

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Chris Wolf, Kevin Wenck and David Gershon KingsGate Capital Management, San Francisco 415-908-8200

Life sciences Prime broker: Banc of America Law firm: Shartsis Friese Auditor: Rothstein Kass

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Headstream Value Partners Domicile U.S. ☛ SEE PAGE 1

Josh Smith and Bill Ward Headstream Asset Management, Dallas 214-890-8860

Long-biased Prime broker: Banc of America Law firm: Akin Gump Auditor: KPMG Peat Marwick Administrator: J.D. Clark

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Equity-analyst David Gruber is leavingLehman Brothers to cover healthcarestocks for Weiss, Peck & Greer’s WPG-Farber Fund. He will join the New Yorkfirm on Feb. 19 to help fill a void thatwas left when the fund’s managementteam followed co-manager DavidPresent, who departed to start his own

fund in April. The fund is now run byGerald Farber, who hired Gruber. Priorto joining WPG, Gruber was a seniorvice president in the equity-researcharea at Lehman for three years, focus-ing on medical-supply companies.

State Street Bank has tapped formerPershing executive Tony Patrelli to headits fledgling prime-brokerage business.Patrelli was previously responsible forthe prime-brokerage operation ofDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Pershing

unit, which Credit Suisse First Bostonabsorbed as part of its 2000 acquisi-tionof DLJ. State Street began

Schonfeld Alum Hiring for ‘Prop Trading’ FirmThe former top professional at trading powerhouse Schonfeld Securities wants

to hire about 10 senior portfolio managers and perhaps twice that many junior

analysts for a multi-strategy venture that he launched last month.

Through his firm’s Web site, Dmitry Balyasny refers to the vehicle he launched

on Jan. 2 as a hedge fund. But in one important respect, it more-closely resem-

bles a proprietary-trading operation. That’s because the firm, called BAM, runs

money for only a small group of principals, who unlike hedge-fund investors,

pay no performance fees.Word surfaced last year that Balyasny was planning a fund — originally thought

to be under Schonfeld’s aegis — and that he would run $300 million. Now operat-

ing on his own, he is believed to have at least that much capital.

Balyasny, a principal and the head trader at Chicago-based Schonfeld for fiveSee SCHONFELD on Page 4Instead of Selling, Shuman Names Successors

Fred Shuman, the founder of fund-of-funds firm Archstone Management, has

decided to offer ownership stakes to staffers of his highly regarded company.

The decision, announced to investors in a yearend letter, ends nearly a year of

speculation that the 61-year-old Shuman said he was seeking to sell the New

York multi-manager shop.During that time, Goldman Sachs was introducing Shuman to a host of

prospective buyers. But Shuman said he rejected bids from a number of undis-

closed financial institutions, choosing instead to award interests in Archstone to

long-time staffers Joe Pignatelli, Andrew Small and Dawn Goodyear. Pignatelli is the

firm’s chief operating officer, Small is its chief financial officer and Goodyear is its

administrative manager. The new ownership structure was effective last month.

Shuman is gradually transferring responsibilities and ownership interests See SHUMAN on Page 4 Felipe Splitting from $1 Bil. Sirios Partnership

Chris Felipe is ending his partnership in Sirios Capital Management, leaving

John Brennan in charge of the $1 billion hedge-fund operation.

Sources familiar with Sirios — who were surprised by the decision — have

been told that Felipe will leave in June to spend more time with his family.

Brennan will continue to run the firm, which the pair started shortly after leav-

ing Boston mutual-fund company MFS Investment Management in February

1999. At MFS, Felipe managed the $6.3 billion Massachusetts Investors Growth

Fund and the $1 billion MFS Strategic Growth Fund. Brennan oversaw the $2.2 bil-

lion MFS Capital Opportunities Fund.Boston-based Sirios has $650 million invested via a diversified long/short

entity domiciled in the Cayman Islands. A companion vehicle in the U.S.

accounts for the rest.Felipe’s departure follows a string of high-profile fund split-ups. Since last

year, big-name partners have separated from Intrepid Capital, Pequot Capital,

Bowman Capital and Galleon Capital. ❖

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2 Rich Multi-Manager Funds Get Richer 2 Trio Aims to Raise $50 Million 2 IRS Awaits Input on Stock Futures

3 Gleacher Lures Tremont Exec 3 Carlyle Staffs Up for Fund of Funds

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manager at HBK for five years, is the lead portfolio managerat Aviator. He’ll run the planned fund’s catalyst-driven andrelative-value volatility arbitrage investments.

Also running the portfolio will be Koji Takasumi and EricWong. Takasumi was a co-portfolio manager and Japaneseequity-derivatives trader at KBC Financial Products in Tokyo.He will run Aviator’s statistical-volatility arbitrage invest-ments. Wong had been a convertible-arbitrage trader andco-portfolio manager at Angelo, Gordon & Co. in New York.He will manage the fund’s convertible-arbitrage and capital-structure arbitrage bets.

The firm’s fourth partner is Peter Sparks, a former infor-mation-technology project manger at Goldman Sachs. TonyTran, previously an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers, isAviator’s controller. ❖

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in 1986. He was serving as head traderwhen he left in 1992 to teach at theUniversity of Virginia. He returned toTiger as chief operating officer in 1996and remained at the firm until 1999.He remains one of three members onthe advisory board of Tiger alumnusSteve Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital ofGreenwich, Conn., and serves as fundliquidator for Tiger veteran AndreasHalvorsen’s New York-based VikingGlobal.

At the University of Virginia, wherehe worked as chief investment officerof the unit that manages the endow-ment from 2001 until January 2003,Bills ran $1 billion of hedge-fundinvestments — an amount equal to60% of the school’s investments.That’s the largest hedge-fund alloca-tion of any university endowment.

During the 2002 fiscal year, whichended June 30, Bills’ hedge-fund bets

paid off extremely well, producing a 7.7% return, after fees.Those gains offset losses among the university’s stock invest-ments, helping the endowment achieve a virtually flat returnfor the year.

The endowment also fared well against its peers.According to a Cambridge Associates survey covering resultsending Dec. 31, 2002, the University of Virginia’s one-yeargain of 0.3% and three-year average of 9.3% made it the topperformer in the group. The survey didn’t include theendowments of Yale University, Stanford University orRockefeller University.

Meanwhile, the University of Virginia is in the process ofselecting a recruiting firm to find a replacement for Bills. Fornow, his duties are being handled by Alice Handy, presidentof the Investment Management Co., the unit that runs theendowment’s money. ❖

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Brokerage Matchmaker TelephoneABN Amro Joe Young 212-251-3014Banc of America Peter Burrus 212-583-8656

Typhaine Zagoreos (Europe) 212-583-8742 Barclays Capital Rosemarie Lakeman 212-412-7669

Jamie Phillips (Europe) 44-207-773-9191Bear Stearns Bill Ullman 212-272-6473

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nership in Ridgefield, Conn.-basedSelalu. Her former partner, DonnaAnderson Schole, will continue to runSelalu.

Irv Kessler is rapidly building up hisnew hedge-fund firm, ProvidentAdvisors. The two-month-old Wayzata,Minn., shop already employs 12staffers, including eight analysts,traders and portfolio managers. Kesslerintends to add even more staff as heprepares to start marketing a fund toinvestors in early May. He expects tostart trading the vehicle on July 1.Kessler is best known as the founder ofDeephaven Capital Management, a $1.2billion multi-strategy hedge-fundshop. He left the firm in 2001, afterselling it to Knight Trading.

Sumnicht & Associates, an Appleton,Wis., firm that advises wealthyinvestors, has added two staffers. RobRiedle joined this month to head busi-ness development and provide finan-cial-planning advice to the firm’sclients. Sumnicht, which has $100million of its $300 million allocatedto hedge funds, also added Joe Schmitt

as director of tax and estate planning.Schmitt previously ran his own lawpractice in Green Bay, Wis.

Wealthy families are sticking withtheir hedge-fund investments, accord-ing to a joint survey by Naples, Fla.,fund-of-funds shop LJH GlobalInvestments and the Institute for PrivateInvestors, a New York-based organiza-tion of 300 rich families. Of the 71families that responded to the survey,37 said they planned to expand theirhedge-fund holdings this year. Theycurrently allocate an average of 18%of their portfolios to hedge funds,compared to 34% for stocks and 20%for bonds, the survey found.

Strategic Financial Solutions has addedthe MSCI Hedge Fund Indices to itsperformance-analysis software,PerTrac 2000 SE. MSCI, run byMorgan Stanley Capital International,tracks the performance of more than1,500 hedge funds. It represents the11th group of indices included in thePerTrac software, which allows usersto compare the performance andcharacteristics of hedge funds.

A University of Massachusetts researchcenter hopes by next year to startreleasing weekly hedge-fund perform-

ance updates. It would do so throughits Center for International Securitiesand Derivatives Markets, which over-sees the Zurich Alternative InvestmentPerformance Database of 2,500 hedgefunds and managed-futures vehicles.The center supplies data to variousacademics, Mar/Hedge (the formerowner of the database) and StrategicFinancial Solutions, which uses theinformation for its PerTrac 2000 SE.

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