Aspect Capital and Henderson Global Investors are among five new hedge fund managers who have committed to the Hedge Fund Standard Boards standards, bringing the total number of signatories to 58.
The new signatories also include Amber Capital UK, Krom River Investment Management (Cayman) and North Asset Management.
Amber Capital focuses on event-driven opportunities, investing primarily in equities and selectively in other areas of the capital structure. Founded more than eight years ago, Amber had assets at 1 May 2010 of $740m and the firm has offices in New York, London, Paris and Milan.
Aspect Capital Limited is a systematic alternative asset manager with offices in London, Greenwich and Hong Kong. The company was established in 1997 by Anthony Todd, Martin Lueck, Michael Adam and Eugene Lambert and manages $3.6bn for institutional clients. Aspect became a signatory to the Standards on 1 January 2010.
Henderson Global Investors (Henderson) is wholly-owned by Henderson Group plc, with $93bn under management at 31 December 2009. The groups first hedge fund was launched in 1999, and Henderson now runs approximately $3bn in hedge and UCITS III absolute return funds. The strategies encompass Equity Long/Short, Equity Quant Market Neutral, Credit Long/Short, Systematic Global Macro and Multi-Strategy.
Krom River Investment Management is a Cayman based multi-commodity fund manager with offices in Zug, Switzerland. It invests in a wide range of commodities through exchange-traded futures and options, using a combination of macro and fundamental research, as well as technical analysis. The fund was launched in July 2006 by Christopher Brodie.
North Asset Management is an alternative asset management company based in London and founded in 2002. Its flagship fund, the MaxQ Fund, is an uncorrelated alpha macro fund which invests in a broad spectrum of assets including global fixed income, foreign exchange and equity markets.