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	<description>Emerging Manager Focus provides emerging managers in the alternatives, private equity, and institutional space with the latest news and investment strategies. Emerging Manager Focus, an online publication from Focus Point Press, features emerging managers who discuss how they are differentiating themselves across a variety of strategies in a competitive environment. Emerging Manager Focus also highlights consultants, institutions and other service providers in the space.</description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing in the Hedge Fund World: Will the Trend Continue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For hedge funds and others in the financial world data security is an important factor and key to survival. Emerging Manager Focus  spoke with a managing director at one of today’s well-known hedge fund tech providers about data security for hedge funds and the cloud computing phenomenon.]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Fund Giants Continue to Lead the Pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Valuation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some familiar names again graced a list of the top-10 open-end fund families in April. The list, presented by Chicago investment researcher Morningstar, showed that fund customers were once again lured to the top fund families.]]></description>
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		<title>To Expand, Perella Weinberg Partners Nabs Big Bank Execs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three high-profile executives of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have left the big banks to take on new positions at Perella Weinberg Partners.]]></description>
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		<title>Avista Capital Partners Confirms Latest Acquisition Underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buyout firm Avista Capital Partners is set to acquire Top-Co Inc., a designer and manufacturer of specialized casing cementing products used in the drilling and completion of oil, natural gas and geothermal wells.]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Firm Eagle Asset Management Finds Senior Vice President</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former BNY Mellon executive Kerry Anne Murphy was named senior vice president of institutional sales at Eagle Asset Management.]]></description>
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		<title>Equity Opportunities at Home and On the Frontier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its second quarter investment and economic outlook Bank of the West’s Wealth Management Group is advising investors to take a conservative approach to investing despite the recent gains in the U.S. markets. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oakmark Select Fund’s Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The co-manager of the Oakmark Select Fund is set to retire in July, so what does that mean for the fund and most importantly who will replace him?]]></description>
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		<title>Private Equity Firms in California Look to Hire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marlin Equity Partners and Caltius Equity Partners are both looking to take on new hires in the coming months.]]></description>
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		<title>William Blair &amp; Company Launches New Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Blair’s hedge fund of funds strategy team will be managing its new commodity fund – the William Blair Commodity Strategy Long/Short Fund. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gargoyle, RiverPark Present a Mutual Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gargoyle Hedged Value Fund L.P., which has a 12-year performance record as a hedge fund, has been converted into an open-end equity mutual fund, a RiverPark spokesman confirmed to Emerging Manager Focus.]]></description>
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