Corey Ribotsky is an Investment Thought Leader, leading a highly specialized investment management firm.

The Sunrise in the City Cocktail Party will take place at Three Sixty in Tribeca on May 16th. The evening is set to attract hundreds of New York business leaders, philanthropists and others to lend their support for Sunrise and to have an amazing night out in the City.

Celebrity Auctioneer John Oliver from The Daily Show will be there – and hopefully you will as well!

As would interest other hedge fund managers like Corey Ribotsky, Halestrap joined BlueCrest in January as a portfolio manager on the BlueCrest Capital International fund.

BlueCrest was first set up by Mike Platt and William Reeves in 2000 and now has $29.4 billion in assets. Halestrap’s move signals a trend that others are also seeing in the industry, with the move away from the banking industry and the move towards the growing hedge fund industry.

They expect the fund to close at the end of March and FCP plans to raise at least £6 million.

In a statement, Piers Denne, head of sales & marketing at Future Capital Partners, said “The success we have had with our previous Elara funds, and the appetite among investors for the diversified renewable energy strategy they adopt, is validation of our approach to the green investment sector. Launching Elara III will give investors another chance to benefit from the funds innovative strategy, and we have responded to investor appetite by increasing the capacity we can invest in underlying deals.”

For experts like Corey Ribotsky who make direct investments in public companies, it’s always interesting to follow the latest developments. The dream for these investors at the moment is for huge social media companies like Facebook to go public.  And that’s exactly what is set to happen given last month’s announcement that it has officially filed with the SEC to become public, known as FB.  It’s probably one of the –if not the – hottest IPOs of this year, although we still have 10 months left in 2012.  It’s tough to imagine a better competitor though than Facebook, given the direction in which social media is happening. 

The evening will include a cocktail hour, a three course dinner, entertainment, dancing and live and silent auctions.  100% of the money that is raised from the evening will help domestic animals in the Sanibel-Captiva and Lee County locations.

January 24th was then the Private Equity Day and focused on global macroeconomic environment issues with the keynote by Glenn Hutchins. The day was filled with discussions from Lord Stanley Fink, David Novak, Vindi Banga, High Langmuir and others. In the afternoon, they showcased two interactive segments. One, entitled “Behind the Blue” included Willy Burkhardt.

And with ihs efforts, the Team In Training program was born. LLS asked Cleland to replicate the idea that he had in 1988 in other locations, and he slowly created the Team In Training model.

Now, Georgia Cleland, that little girl who was given a 55% chance of survival, just finished her first half-marathon with Team In Training. And, thanks to her father’s idea, the Team In Training program has reached over half a million people who have trained in the last 23 years and has raised more than $1.2 billion in research.

Many believe, instead, placed stability as their number one priority. Many financial leaders, however, worry that people will squander away potential opportunities.

As John Hailer, president and CEO of Natixis Global Asset Management in the U.S. and Asia explained, “The pendulum may have swung too far in terms of risk aversion, causing individual investors to shun investment options that are designed to grow portfolios while minimising risk in volatile environments.”

Prior to starting Carrhae, Akay worked at SAC, which is a $14 billion Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund that was founded by billionaire Steven Cohen. Learn more about this venture.