Energy Hedge Fund Center

Florida-based asset management firm Stonehenge Capital Management (SCM) announced Monday that its new direction-neutral hedge fund strategy called Forward Curve Realignment (FCR) resulted in strong returns one month after its launching. FCR returned 0.3 percent in its first month of trading during one of the most turbulent market conditions, SCM Manager Steven Michael said. FCR, ... Read More

Former JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) trader Damien Bombell, who left when the bank closed a unit that bet on commodities last year, started a hedge fund to invest in metals, grains and energy. The Strand Global Macro Fund began investing this year with money provided by Bombell and his partners, he said in a ... Read More

A sell of in the commodities markets has caused a number of large commodity-focused hedge funds to suffer stiff losses. Whereas many of these hedge funds were once considered top-tier, recent losses have pushed them into the bottom of the industry performance-wise. Among the commodities leading the sell off were gold, crude oil, copper and ... Read More

By Laurence Fletcher and Tommy Wilkes LONDON | Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:54am EDT (Reuters) – A sharp sell-off in commodity markets in the past few weeks is wreaking havoc with the track records of some of the biggest-name funds in the sector, many of which now languish near the bottom of the $2 trillion ... Read More

By Laurence Fletcher LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – David Murrin and Susan Payne, the UK-based husband and wife hedge fund team accused by one U.S. thinktank of fuelling and exploiting a global commodity crisis, are to split the two businesses they founded together after agreeing to separate. Murrin, a former oil company geologist well known ... Read More