100 Women in Hedge Funds Awards

100 Women in Hedge Funds is today presenting their 5th Anniversary event, Raising Capital: Keys to success and new trends in the industry, in Stamford, CT. The event is hosted by UBS Investment Bank and All Bar None.

The speaker, Bill Brown, UBS Head and Chief Investment Officer, will discuss the role of raising capital for hedge funds and the challenges in the current environment. The invited speakers have experience in successfully raising capital for hedge funds and knowledge of the market.

100 Women in Hedge Funds offers events in numerous cities across the globe. On May 2 they are hosting an Inaugural Networking Event in Geneva and also coming up is the inaugural 100 Women in Hedge Funds London Gala, which will be held June 13, 2007 at the Royal Courts of Justice, London for benefit of The Prince's Trust.

Hedge fund managers Gay Huey Evans of Tribeca Global Management, and Michael Hintze of CQS, will be honored the Gala.Huey Evans will receive the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' European Industry Leadership award. Huey Evans is President of Tribeca Global Management (Europe), Citi's Alternative Investment's hedge fund platform. She has helped build out Tribeca into a premier multi-strategy hedge fund platform within Citigroup.

Hintze, who is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CQS, will receive the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' European Effecting Change award for his philanthropic activity. Hintze established CQS in 1999 and the firm, one of the largest hedge funds in Europe, now manages over US$6 billion. Over the last several years, the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation has made awards to educational and health programs, and the Arts, including The Prince's Trust, The Prince's Foundation, Trinity Hospice, The Evelina Children's Trust, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Sculpture Galleries, the Vatican Museums' Pauline Chapel and the University of Sydney.