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Hedge funds bet China is a bubble close to bursting | Jan 17/11 |
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The world is looking to China as a springboard out of recession - but
some hedge funds are betting the country's credit and growth levels cannot
be sustained.
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Financial Services Technology Leader James "Skip" Smith Joins Confluence as VP of Product Dev. | Jan 14/11 |
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(PITTSBURGH, PA – January 12, 2011)
Confluence, a global leader in investment management data automation,
today announced that industry veteran James "Skip" Smith has joined the
company’s...Read more |
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Soros Bets the Farm | Jan 14/11 |
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An agriculture company backed by the billionaire
George Soros on Thursday filed to go public in an offering of more than $400
million.
The company, Adecoagro, based in Luxembourg, but with extensive farm holdings
in Sou...Read more |
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Don't Bank on Hedge-Fund Gold Rush | Jan 14/11 |
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One sign the financial world may be returning to normal: Hedge-fund start-ups
in 2010 reached the highest level since the boom, with 715 new funds launched in
the first nine months of the year, according to Hedge Fund Resear...Read more |
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AUSPICE CAPITAL ADVISORS NAMED ONE OF ALBERTA VENTURE MAGAZINE'S FAST GROWTH 50 | Jan 14/11 |
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Alternative Investment Firm
Ranks High in List of Alberta’s Fastest
Growing Companies
Calgary, Alberta (January 13, 2010) – Auspice Capital
Ad...Read more |
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How to Bet On the Apocalypse | Jan 13/11 |
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With
fish and birds (sort
of) mysteriously dying and 2012 a mere 358 days away, insurance companies
are ratcheting up their bets that the end-times are upon us. The New York
Times' Azam Ahmed
reports that "catastr...Read more |
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Barclay Hedge Fund Index gains 2.88% in December | Jan 13/11 |
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Hedge funds gained 2.88 per cent in December and are up 10.86 per
cent in 2010 according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.
“After two years of strong gains, close to 64 per cent of the hedge funds
that...Read more |
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Beta 2 Outperforming Hedge Funds | Jan 13/11 |
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Beta 2 Limited, a forex investment boutique, compare their
performance and the returns for their clients against Hedge Funds in 2010.
in
quarter four alone our clients were up between 4.4% and 27.9%
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PINNACLE FUNDADMINISTRATION EXPANDS NORTH AMERICAN SERVICES WITH NEW VANCOUVER OFFICE | Jan 12/11 |
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Charlotte,
NC, January 4, 2011
–Pinnacle Fund Administration (“Pinnacle”), a provider of full service fund
administration services to onshore and offshore alternative investment vehicles,
today announces that it has ...Read more |
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Hedge funds positive in December, says Credit Suisse LAB Index | Jan 12/11 |
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Returns for Credit Suisse's LAB Liquid Indices suggest that hedge
funds experienced positive performance in December according to Jordan Drachman,
Head of Research for Alternative Beta Strategies at Credit Suisse.
"The...Read more |
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Regulatory requirements are biggest challenge for hedge fund CFOs, says SEI survey | Jan 12/11 |
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While the economy remains a concern, hedge fund CFOs say
addressing new regulatory requirements and meeting evolving investor
expectations are the biggest challenges for 2011, according to a poll by SEI.
The poll, conducte...Read more |
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Currency Hedging Strategies for Canadians Investing in U.S. Stocks | Jan 11/11 |
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Investing in foreign stocks inevitably carries certain risks besides the initial
risk of the investment. One of the most important factors to consider when investing
internationally is the currency or forex risk involved in th...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Deposits Reach Nine-Month High on Risk Appetite, TrimTabs Says | Jan 11/11 |
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Hedge Funds' Returns Beat Global Equity Markets in 2010, Eurekahedge Says | Jan 11/11 |
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Hedge Funds Gain 1.7% in December, Reach Two-Year Peak | Jan 11/11 |
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Hedge Funds Almost Double Bullish Gas Bets on Cold Snap | Jan 10/11 |
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Hedge
funds almost doubled bets on gains in natural gas as futures climbed to the
highest level since August on forecasts for colder-than-normal weather.
The funds and other large speculators raised their net-long positions,...Read more |
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Carlsberg chief calls for hedge fund crackdown | Jan 10/11 |
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The chief executive of Carlsberg has called for a crackdown on hedge
funds and other speculators and warned that the world's biggest brewers
could have to hold spare capital to cope with commodity price volatility.
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Netflix Short Was Hedge-Fund Manager Whitney Tilson's Biggest 2010 Loser | Jan 07/11 |
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b Whitney
Tilson, co-founder of hedge fund T2 Partners LLC, said
Netflix Inc. was his biggest loser in 2010, less than a month after the
movie-rental company’s chief executive officer publicly asked him to stop
betting ag...Read more |
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Next Life: From Hedge Funds to Oysters | Jan 07/11 |
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Jeff Northrop left Exis Capital Management and started New York Oyster Co. to sell the harvest from his family's Connecticut oyster beds When he left the New York offices of Exis Capital Management, Jeff Northrop
thought he was ...Read more |
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Merger arbitrage hedge funds poised for rich pickings in 2011 | Jan 07/11 |
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There is strong consensus among merger arbitrage
hedge fund managers that 2011 will be a banner year for the strategy.
Merger arbitrage funds returned a modest 4.3% on average in 2010, according
to data provider Hedge Fund R...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Seen Doing Better as Volatility Lessens | Jan 06/11 |
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This will be a better year for hedge funds, with the prospect of less market
volatility than in 2010, according to Randall Dillard, the chief investment
officer at Liongate Capital Management LLP, a fund of hedge funds, the Fi...Read more |
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Agecroft sees tailwinds for small and mid-sized hedge funds in 2011 | Jan 06/11 |
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Reduced competition from large hedge
funds and fewer investors on the sidelines should help small and
mid-sized managers capture a greater share of inflows in 2011, according
to Agecroft Partners.
Hedge fund ...Read more |
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How The Huge Currency Hedge Fund FX Concepts Delivered Stellar Returns In 2010 | Jan 06/11 |
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FX Concepts' Global Currency Program - a $3.2 billion currency hedge
fund - earned returns of 12.53% last year by focusing on selling the
coin of nations whose central banks pumped the most cash into the
financi...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Inside Tips Are Like Paying for Sex | Jan 05/11 |
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Snippets of secretly taped conversations from the U.S. government’s latest
hot case ring with a certain familiarity.
“The service we provide is, you know, whatever you’re looking for,” a newly
charged criminal defendant says...Read more |
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The Incredible Shrinking Fee | Jan 05/11 |
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A price war is slashing expenses to the bone on index-tracking
exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. And that suits Harold Evensky fine.
"It's great," says the Coral Gables, Fla., financial adviser, who makes those ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Increase Bullish Crude Bets to Four-Year High | Jan 04/11 |
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Hedge
funds raised bullish bets on crude oil to the highest level in more than
four years on speculation that futures will climb as the U.S. recovers from the
deepest recession since the 1930s.
The funds and other large sp...Read more |
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Gibraltar - an attractive proposition for the hedge fund industry | Jan 04/11 |
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1 January 2011 was a key milestone in Gibraltar’s fiscal history. On this
date the new Income Tax Act came into effect and completed the territory’s 14
year transition from ‘tax haven’ to mainstream European financial services...Read more |
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Porsche wins $2 billion U.S. hedge fund suit's dismissal | Jan 03/11 |
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A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by 10 hedge fund groups accusing
German automaker Porsche SE (PSHG_p.DE)
of cornering the market in shares of Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE),
resulting in more than $2 billion of damages...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Extend Gains, but Insider Probe Swirls | Jan 03/11 |
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Hedge funds notched another run of gains in 2010. But as the year closed, a
wide-ranging insider-trading investigation spooked the industry and cast a cloud
that will loom in the months ahead.
Journal Report
Read th...Read more |
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Hedge funds offered weak returns in 2010 | Jan 03/11 |
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Hedge funds often claim to offer strong returns that are not correlated with
broader markets, but in 2010 many failed on both of those counts.
That failure came in large part because hedge funds cannot make as many bets
w...Read more |
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Bermuda updates investment fund regulation | Dec 31/10 |
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The aim of the Amendment Act is to align “the regulatory framework for funds and fund administrators more closely with the requirements that exist in other regulatory legislation in Bermuda, while ensuring that the framework overa...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Projects: Epic Louis Armstrong Bio | Dec 31/10 |
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Good news for music lovers and art investors, film producers Oley Sassone and Bill Badalato are seeking hedge fund financing for a major motion picture based on the young life of Louis Armstrong, entitled Black & Blue.Total bu...Read more |
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New Arrest Made in Expert Insider Trading Investigation | Dec 30/10 |
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There has been another arrest in the government's ongoing investigation into the alleged links between hedge fund firms and insider information furnished by third-party expert networks. Winifred Jiau, 43, was arrested Tuesday at h...Read more |
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Smaller Asian Hedge Funds Shunned Despite Big Gains | Dec 30/10 |
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Size does matter, when it comes to Asian hedge funds looking to raise capital. Investors continue to give overwhelming preference to larger hedge funds over small hedge funds. But many small hedge funds like The Thai Focused Equit...Read more |
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Hedge fund managers turn extremely bullish on US equities | Dec 29/10 |
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About 46% of the 92 hedge fund managers
the firms surveyed in the past week are bullish on the S&P 500,
while only 19% are bearish.
“These bullish and bearish readings are the highest and lowest,
respectively, since the...Read more |
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Hedge funds suffer mild setback in November | Dec 29/10 |
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The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund
Index declined 0.8%, while the currency-hedged Morningstar MSCI
Composite Index dropped 0.1%. For the year to date through November,
these indexes have risen 6.1% and 7.2%, respectively. Bot...Read more |
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UCITS celebrates it's 25th birthday | Dec 29/10 |
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Twenty five years ago this week saw the
first formal adoption of the UCITS directive, since when it has gone
through two further incarnations, with a third, UCITS IV, due next July.
Leading the way in embracing UCITS has bee...Read more |
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UBS teams up with HFR to roll out UCITS-compliant ETF | Dec 29/10 |
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Swiss bank UBS AG has teamed up with US-based Hedge Fund Research,
a market leader in hedge fund analytics and indexation, to launch a
UCITS-compliant ETF. Based on HFR’s HFRX Index, which uses a UCITS III
methodology to cal...Read more |
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State Street Investor Confidence Index® for December 2010 | Dec 29/10 |
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State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State
Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today released the results of the State Street
Investor Confidence Index® for December 2010.
Globally,
Inves...Read more |
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All assets are illiquid | Dec 23/10 |
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Much of financial theory is built on the premise that markets are liquid for the
most part and that illiquidity, if it exists, occurs in pockets: it shows up
only with very small, lightly traded companies, emerging markets and...Read more |
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Volatile trading on hedge fund market likely to extend in 2011 | Dec 23/10 |
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Prices on the hedge fund secondary market remain volatile,
according to the latest data from Hedgebay.
A lack of price stability has been the recurring theme of 2010, evidenced
once again when the average trade price dropped...Read more |
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SEC charges hedge fund manager, trustees with running multi-million dollar offering fraud | Dec 22/10 |
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Scheme raised in US$34 million from investors in U.S., Canada
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil injunctive action
against the operators of two defunct hedge funds, which it claims conducted...Read more |
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Vision Capital Hedge Fund Reaches $32.8M | Dec 22/10 |
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A hedge fund sponsored by Vision Capital Advisors has
attained $32.84 million, according to an amended SEC filing.
Definitive Guardian Partners, LP debuted in May of 2009 with
$12.75 million, under the name Vision Guardian ...Read more |
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Toronto-Dominion Bank Close to Deal for Chrysler Financial | Dec 21/10 |
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Toronto-Dominion Bank is close to a $6.3 billion purchase of Chrysler
Financial Corp., the auto lender owned by Cerberus Capital Management LP,
according to people close to the matter. The deal, they say, could be announce...Read more |
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Hedge Funds May Skirt Direct Fed Scrutiny: Source | Dec 21/10 |
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The U.S. Federal Reserve does not believe any
one hedge fund can topple the financial
system and therefore the private pools of capital may
escape direct supervision by the central bank, an industry source fami...Read more |
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Two Arrested in $20 Million Hedge Fund Fraud Scheme | Dec 21/10 |
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New York Federal prosecutors have charged two more hedge fund hedge fund
managers with fraud, according to Courthouse News Services.
The 4-count indictment says that two New Jersey hedge fund managers, William
Shternfeld and ...Read more |
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Taiwan Offers Trove of Insider Data for Hedge Funds Seeking Trading Edge | Dec 20/10 |
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For technology companies, Taiwan is home to the biggest custom producers of
chips used in products like
Apple’s iPhone and
Dell computers. For hedge funds, it’s a cornucopia of confidential data,
leaked from chipmakers a...Read more |
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UBS and HFR launch ETF on HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index | Dec 20/10 |
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UBS and Hedge Fund Research have launched the UBS ETFs plc - HFRX
Global Hedge Fund Index SF, the first exchange-traded fund built on the
investable benchmark of hedge fund performance.
The ETF was listed on the Deutsche Boe...Read more |
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Jeff Vinik's Hedge Fund Turns to Index Tracking After Stock-Picking Gains | Dec 17/10 |
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Jeffrey N. Vinik, the hedge-fund manager whose stock selections have beaten
markets for the better part of two decades, has invested almost half of his U.S.
equity portfolio in passive index funds.
Of the $3.39 billion i...Read more |
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RBC Hedge 250 Index up 0.25 per cent in November 2010 | Dec 17/10 |
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The RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of 0.25 per cent in
November, bringing the year-to-date return of the index to 4.05 per cent.
These returns are estimated and will be finalised by the middle of next
month. The retur...Read more |
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