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Hedge fund flows up 2.29% in May, says GlobeOp | May 16/11 |
Hedge fund flows, as measured by the GlobeOp Capital Movements
Index, were up 2.29% in May.
“After last month’s pause, investors continued their steady return to the
hedge fund market,” says Hans Hufschmid, chief executive of...Read more |
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Hedge funds have $100 billion still locked up | May 16/11 |
Despite assurances to the contrary, a segment of hedge funds still has as
much as $100 billion locked up and won't allow redemptions.
Most hedge fund managers that stopped all redemptions or put illiquid
assets into eme...Read more |
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Hedge funds talk about what comes after managers go | May 13/11 |
Hedge fund managers may feel invincible in private, but in public some are
talking about what will happen to their firms after they are gone.
"I am one of 16 partners at Maverick and if I should get hit by a bus, then ...Read more |
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Hedge fund inflows swell to 9-mo high | May 13/11 |
Hedge funds last month enjoyed their biggest monthly net inflows since
August, as investors backed managers to profit from increasing market
volatility, indicative data from GlobeOp Financial Services (GO.L)
shows.
The ...Read more |
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Big hedge funds reveal their likes and dislikes | May 13/11 |
* Many like energy companies
* E*Trade, Transocean, El Paso, precious metals also eyed
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
LAS VEGAS, May 12 (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers are known to be secretive,
but this week several opened up ...Read more |
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Investors Shifting to Cash From Commodities | May 12/11 |
Global investors have tempered their optimism about the U.S. and world
economies and plan to put more of their money in cash and less in commodities
over the next six months, a Bloomberg survey found.
Almost 1 in 3 of those ...Read more |
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Study: Hedge Fund Size & SEC/Investor Lawsuit Costs | May 12/11 |
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Large hedge funds with over $10 billion in assets
under management (AUM) typically purchase $40 million or more in professional
liability insurance coverage, nearly 200% more than medium funds between ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Management & Professional Liability Insurance; Are Costs Really Declining? | May 12/11 |
It is an absolute certainty that more and more
hedge funds of all shapes and sizes are buyers of liability insurance
protection. This is mostly due to increased due diligence on the part of the
investor base and mandates to ...Read more |
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SEC to Raise Threshold for Hedge Fund and Private Equity Fund Investments | May 11/11 |
It will soon become just a little harder to get past the velvet rope…
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its plan to
raise certain dollar thresholds that would need to be met before investment
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Largest Hedge Funds Buy More, Pay Less for Protection Against SEC and Investor Lawsuit Costs... | May 11/11 |
New York-based Insurance and Risk Management Advisory Firm
Releases Benchmark Study on Typical Amounts of E&O/D&O Insurance Coverage
Purchased by Emerging, Medium and Large Hedge Funds
White Plains, N.Y. - May 9, 2011...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Post Inflow of $15.7 Billion (0.9% of Assets) in March; Investors Favor Emerging Markets | May 11/11 |
Hedge Fund Managers Remain Downbeat on U.S. Equities but
Continue to Lever Up; Nearly Six in Ten Managers Do Not Expect Fed to Tighten in
2011
New York, NY – May 9, 2011 – The hedge fund industry posted
an inflow of $15.7 b...Read more |
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Commodities fund loses $400 mln in oil slide -report | May 09/11 |
* Clive Capital, commodities HF, hit hardest -report
* Down 8.9 percent after oil price drops -report
NEW YORK May 8 (Reuters) - Clive
Capital, the world's largest commodity hedge fund, lost more than $400 million
due to...Read more |
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Top Hedge Fund List sees Assets jump by 24% in 2010 | May 09/11 |
The Top Hedge Funds in the United States saw their US Equity assets jump by over
$35.3 billion during 2010, representing a 24% increase in assets. Collectively,
the top 10 hedge funds on the list managed $182.1 billion at the ...Read more |
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ARROW HEDGE REBRANDS AS ARROW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT | May 09/11 |
• C$1.2bn AUM asset
manager expands its’ horizons to European market with joint
venture
• Significant lessons
should have been learned by the industry; transparency and
capital protection are absolutely key
&nb...Read more |
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What’s the point of benchmarks? | May 06/11 |
At worst, benchmarks are an
accident waiting to happen
Most institutional investors have
been shoe-horning hedge funds into their portfolios with long-only tools and
a few have started to wise up to the fact that benc...Read more |
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Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index up 1.44% in April | May 06/11 |
New York (HedgeCo.net) – The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index
finished at 1.44% in April, up from -0.08% in March. The index stands at +2.62%
year to date.
“After a downturn mid-month, the Dow Jones Credit Suisse...Read more |
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Hedge funds up 2.2% in Q1, says Dow Jones Credit Suisse HFI report | May 05/11 |
Hedge funds, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge
Fund Index, were up 2.2% in the first quarter of 2011, posting positive
performance in each month of the quarter, according to the latest hedge fund
industry revi...Read more |
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Silver, Gold Futures Dropping as Soros Reported to Have Sold | May 05/11 |
Silver futures fell, heading for the biggest three-day drop since 2008, and
gold also retreated amid a report
Soros Fund Management LLC sold precious-metal assets.
Soros Fund Management sold some holdings because of a reduc...Read more |
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AlphaNorth Asset Management Launches New Mutual Fund: AlphaNorth Growth Fund | May 05/11 |
AlphaNorth Asset Management (the "Manager") is pleased to announce that it has
filed a preliminary simplified prospectus for a new open-ended mutual fund:
AlphaNorth Growth Fund (the "Fund"), a class of s...Read more |
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Team Work at Hedge Funds | May 04/11 |
There is no such thing as a perfect hedge fund – we are all trying. So in my
role as a consultant to hedge fund portfolio managers (PMs), I am usually
carrying out remedial work in some dimension. Sometimes it can be about the...Read more |
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How the Fund of Fund Industry is Evolving | May 04/11 |
If you believe the trade press, then you probably think that the fund of
hedge funds (FoHFs) industry is in its death throes. We are all familiar by now
with the headlines (covered in a recent post) as well as the statistics:
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A short cut to global wealth clients | May 04/11 |
The hedge fund industry has been marked by fundamental changes in
the attitudes and preferences of investors over the past three years. High new
worth clients whose hedge fund investments experienced drawdowns in 2008 have
b...Read more |
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Small hedge funds gaining bigger slice of institutional money | May 03/11 |
Performance potential of emerging managers is getting attentionMore
pension fund chief investment officers are taking a close look at small
hedge fund managers in an ever-widening search for diversified alpha
sources...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Gas Bets Climb to Three-Month High in Futures: Energy Markets | May 03/11 |
Hedge
funds increased bullish bets on natural gas to the highest level in three
months on smaller- than-expected stockpile gains and speculation that reduced
nuclear output will spur demand for the power-plant fuel.
The ...Read more |
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Regulation runs the risk of hitting all the wrong targets | May 03/11 |
Bankers lecturing the world about
systemic risk and the perils of ‘shadow’ banking may strike most people as
taking the mickey. But to hear Alan Greenspan pontificating about there
being no need for any new financial re...Read more |
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Warren Buffett Versus Hedge Funds | May 02/11 |
At the Berkshire Hathaway annual investor meeting today, Warren Buffett
updated a wager he made several years ago with a hedge fund, among the Oracle of
Omaha’s least favorite animals in the financial zoo. The hedge fund manag...Read more |
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Hedge funds increase bets dollar will decline | May 02/11 |
Hedge funds increased their bets against the dollar to a massive $28.6bn
(£17.1bn) in advance of Ben Bernanke's historic first press conference as
chairman of the Federal Reserve last week.
The sum held in short positio...Read more |
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How Will Osama Bin Laden’s Death Affect Markets? | May 02/11 |
Late Sunday night, televisions and websites around the world declared that
President Obama would be making an important statement shortly.
The President’s statement turned out to be that America’s most wanted
terrorist, Osam...Read more |
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Institutional Investor Themes: Real Assets | Apr 29/11 |
A few weeks ago I published my
Top 5 Institutional Investor Themes
on Business Insider. Number one on the list was an increasing allocation to
real assets driven in part by an uncertain inflationary outlook. Sinc...Read more |
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Estate Planning with Hedge Fund Performance Allocations (part one) | Apr 28/11 |
New York (HedgeCo.net) – By hedge fund specialist law firm Holland & Knight
partner Bradley M. Van Buren.
As the economy improves, advisors have experienced a reemergence of hedge
funds and hedge fund managers are again f...Read more |
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New York dominates hedge fund industry | Apr 28/11 |
London, while commanding the European hedge fund industry, manages only half
of the hedge fund assets of New York
New York manages by far the most hedge fund assets compared with other cities
in the world, with London in a di...Read more |
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James Burron Appointed Chief Operating Officer of AIMA Canada | Apr 28/11 |
TORONTO,
April 27 /CNW/ - Gary Ostoich, Chair, Alternative Investment Management
Association - Canada, is pleased to announce
the appointment of James Burron, FCSI, CAIA, as Chief Operating Officer of AIMA
Canada. The app...Read more |
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Algorithmics launches risk reports optimized for hedge funds | Apr 27/11 |
London, New York, Toronto, April 22nd 2011 - To help hedge funds meet new
demands from regulators and investors, Algorithmics, the leading provider of
enterprise risk solutions, today announced the launch of Algo Risk Repo...Read more |
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SEC halts fraudulent Beverley Hills hedge fund and wealth management business | Apr 27/11 |
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency
court order to shut down a Beverly Hills, California hedge fund and wealth
management business targeting retirees, university professors, and members of
the Ch...Read more |
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Hedge fund launches up 51%, says PerTrac | Apr 26/11 |
New York, NY - April 20, 2011 - PerTrac, the leading provider of analytics, reporting and communications software for investment professionals, announced the release of its latest industry study, Sizing The 2010 Hedge Fund Unive...Read more |
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Hedge funds up 0.12% in March, according to Dow Jones Credit Suisse HFI | Apr 26/11 |
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index (HFI) posted
positive performance in March, up 0.12%, with five out of ten
strategies in the index posting positive performance for the month.
Emerging Markets was the best perform...Read more |
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Eze Castle publishes hedge fund operations and technology study | Apr 26/11 |
Eze Castle Integration, Inc has released its 2011 Hedge
Fund Operations & Technology Benchmark Study of more than 220 hedge
funds and alternative investment firms. The study provides insight into
the operational decision...Read more |
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UCITS investors seeking Global Macro and Event Driven strategies | Apr 26/11 |
In its latest survey on the growing market for New UCITS
(NUCITS), ML Capital has seen that the largest growth in investor demand
this quarter, has been for Global Macro strategies, with 87 per cent of
respondents planning t...Read more |
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JP Morgan announces trade-matching functionality for the US Tri-Party Repo market | Apr 25/11 |
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has launched its
Repo Trade Matching Engine. This new functionality will enhance the
operating model of the US Tri-Party Repo market, in support of the May
2010 recommendations of the ...Read more |
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Jury Deliberations Set to Begin in Rajaratnam Case | Apr 25/11 |
Jury deliberations are expected to begin Monday in the
closely-watched insider trading trial of ex-Galleon hedge fund founder
Raj Rajaratnam.
The stakes are high for both sides.
The trial is a critical test of the gover...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Charity Party Goes Gaga | Apr 25/11 |
As this spring’s
annual round of hedge fund charity parties gets under way, the must-have
ticket, as usual, is the Robin Hood Foundation’s do. To be held May 9
at New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center, the gala is the
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Ontario Pension Abandons Nuclear Tech Buy | Apr 25/11 |
With Japan's nuclear disaster raising fears that the
global market for nuclear reactors will not be as robust as previously
expected, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has
abandoned its purc...Read more |
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Amaranth Trader Hunter Fined $30M | Apr 25/11 |
Here's a blast from the hedge fund past: ex-Amaranth Advisors trader Brian
Hunter was ordered to pay $30 million Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission. The $30 million fine is the largest civil penalty assessed ...Read more |
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Hedge funds see fewer exit requests in Apr-GlobeOp | Apr 21/11 |
* GlobeOp Forward Redemption index dips to 2.45 pct in April
* Data shows fewer investors applied to withdraw funds
* Sign of improving hedge fund investor confidence
LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) - Investor confidence in...Read more |
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Hedge funds oversee $2.02 trillion, hit new record | Apr 20/11 |
* Hedge funds manage $2.02 trillion -- HFR
* Level sets new record for industry assets
(Reuters) - Hedge funds are back and bigger than ever.
Fueled by fresh investor demand, these loosely regulated portfolios now
man...Read more |
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Average size of FoHFs falls by over half, says survey | Apr 20/11 |
The latest Preqin research shows that there has been a
significant decline in the number of hedge fund of funds managers with AUM of
between USD2bn and USD5bn, while those with less than USD250m in assets now
account for a l...Read more |
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Mixed month for hedge funds in March, says Edhec | Apr 20/11 |
In March, the stock market could not maintain the fast pace that
began last summer. The S&P 500 index remained stable (+0.04%) despite
continuously decreasing implied volatility (17.7%) over the past three months.
For th...Read more |
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Hybrid Funds Deluged by Record Cash as S&P 500 Swings Most Since Roosevelt | Apr 19/11 |
More money than ever is flowing to mutual funds that buy both stocks and
bonds, a sign that individuals are starting to return to equities during the
most volatile
bull market
since at least 1942.
About $18.6 billion was ...Read more |
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Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index up 0.12% in March | Apr 19/11 |
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index performance in March
has been confirmed as +0.12%.
Oliver Schupp (pictured), President of Credit Suisse Index Co, LLC, says:
"The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index fini...Read more |
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Hedge funds of funds set to reverse 2 years of declines | Apr 19/11 |
Hedge fund-of-funds managers may see a 0.89% rise in assets for the first
six months of 2011, to an estimated $910 billion, following two years of
asset declines, according to new analysis from researcher Preqin.Also,
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