A once-discreet hedge fund has posted its own version of a lonely hearts message on the internet, saying it would like to meet people to buy parts of the business and provide it with extra working capital.

Shane Rodgers, managing director of Signal Capital Management, posted a message on an industry website today seeking an "investor or a trader" to take a "small ownership stake" in the multi-strategy hedge fund firm adding that it was seeking another to provide a "small amount of working capital".