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The Five Reasons Hedge Funds Underperform | Dec 10/13 |
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"The $2.5 trillion hedge-fund industry, whose
money managers are among the finance world’s highest paid, is headed for its
worst annual performance relative to U.S. stocks since at least
2005.
"The funds returned...Read more |
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Growth is the top strategic priority for 67 per cent of hedge funds this year, says survey | Dec 09/13 |
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As the hedge fund industry matures most managers are increasingly
focused on growth, according to EY's seventh annual survey of the global hedge
fund market.
However, the survey shows that while managers want to grow throug...Read more |
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The Hedge Fund Way: Pay More, to Get Less, and Be Unable to Access Your Money | Dec 09/13 |
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Another month, another marker that hedge funds are having an annus
horribilis: With returns of 7.1 percent so far this year, the industry is
badly trailing the broader market, where the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index
...Read more |
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AIMA announces new Chair and Deputy Chair of Investor Steering Committee | Dec 06/13 |
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AIMA, the global hedge fund association, has announced a new Chair and Deputy
Chair of the AIMA Investor Steering Committee (ISC), which features leading
institutional investors in hedge funds from around the world and underta...Read more |
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Hedge fund managers more bullish than investors: survey | Dec 06/13 |
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Institutional investors aren’t necessarily planning to
increase their allocations
As the hedge fund industry matures, most managers
are increasingly focused on growth, according to EY's seventh annual survey
of th...Read more |
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Asset flows: Investors pull from event-driven fund | Dec 05/13 |
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Managed futures funds take
inflows.
October was a strong month for
inflows into the hedge fund industry, with 80% of the Absolute Return hedge
fund strategies experiencing positive inflows. Investors continue to
fu...Read more |
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Hedge funds turn to "long-only" investing in bid to grow | Dec 03/13 |
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Dec 2 (Reuters) - Half of
hedge funds now sell products traditionally the preserve of
mainstream asset managers such as "long-only" strategies, a study shows,
reflecting how conservative investors have come to ...Read more |
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Gold Bulls Retreat as Prices Drop to Four-Month Low | Dec 03/13 |
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Hedge funds grew less bullish on gold for a fourth straight week, the longest
stretch since November 2012, as mounting concern that the Federal Reserve will
curb monetary stimulus sent prices to a four-month low.
The net-lon...Read more |
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Where a $6 Billion Hedge Fund Sees Opportunity | Dec 03/13 |
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Tiger Global Management, the nearly $6 billion hedge fund run by Julian
Robertson protégé Charles Coleman, employs an investment style that thrives on
technology-driven global consumerism. Browse through the fund's holdings in...Read more |
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The suspiciously simple strategy behind the “best performing hedge fund in history” | Dec 03/13 |
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With the poor performance of hedge funds—which
so far have lagged
behind benchmark equity indices in each quarter of 2013—it’s no
wonder a fund would be breathless in promoting its money-making results.
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Arrow Capital Management Inc. Completes Purchase of BluMont Capital Corporation | Dec 03/13 |
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Arrow Capital Management Inc. ("Arrow") is pleased to announce that it has
received all necessary approvals of applicable securities regulatory authorities
and that on December 2, 2013 it completed the previously...Read more |
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New hedge fund managers can score big gains, or losses | Nov 28/13 |
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Wealthy investors may get more bang for their buck if they invest with brand
new hedge fund managers, but they must also have a strong stomach to tolerate
potential losses, a study released on Wednesday shows.
Data from r...Read more |
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5 most popular stocks among hedge funds | Nov 28/13 |
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After the end of each quarter,
hedge funds
and other major investors disclose their long equity positions in stocks that
are publicly traded in U.S. exchanges. Our research has shown that investors can
significantly outperf...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Like ETFs, but in a Different Way | Nov 26/13 |
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Like a lot of professional investors, hedged funds like exchange traded
funds. However, the affinity for ETFs displayed by some hedge funds may come as
a surprise to some. That is to say hedge funds like to short ETFs.
“Hedge...Read more |
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Global Funds of Funds Currently in Market that will Seek Exposure to Asia | Nov 25/13 |
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Funds of funds have traditionally been a mainstay of the private equity
industry as it eases investors’ foray into the asset class. Funds of funds are
essentially seen as a less risky strategy for investors who are not as
ex...Read more |
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Funds lukewarm on commodities for 2014 | Nov 25/13 |
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China and slow global growth, but some are targeting platinum group
metals due to supply concerns.
Participants at the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit were
downbeat on gold, expecting prices to extend loss...Read more |
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Why hedge funds still manage to seduce | Nov 25/13 |
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Hedge fund investor Hugh Culverhouse Jr. says the $2.25 trillion industry was
an easier place for wealthy individuals to make money a decade ago.
Funds were smaller, returns were higher and managers did more to
cultivate ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Gold Bets Less Bullish as Paulson Holds | Nov 25/13 |
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Hedge
funds got less bullish on gold, cutting their net-long position to a
four-month low, before prices capped the biggest weekly retreat since September.
Net holdings in futures and options tumbled 20 percent to 44,291 co...Read more |
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Acceleration in Downtrend for Funds of Hedge Funds | Nov 21/13 |
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Eurekahedge has just published its annual review of funds of hedge funds. It
is difficult to find any good news in it.
The divergence of the paths since the Credit Crunch of the single manager and
multi-manager hedge fund bus...Read more |
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Alternative asset managers targetting retail investors: Fitch | Nov 21/13 |
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Private equity firms are going beyond HNW investors to
focus on the mass affluent
Alternative asset managers are expected
to ramp up their efforts targetted at retail investors, says Fitch
Ratings.In a re...Read more |
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Top 200 New York Area equity hedge funds surpass $670 billion in assets | Nov 18/13 |
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The Top 200 NY Metro Area Equity Hedge Funds recorded another strong quarter
with assets growing by $16 billion or 2.5% to $670 billion. The growth was
driven by strong performance at the top with 10 of the top 15 funds seeing...Read more |
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Hedge funds get USD4.1bn in September | Nov 18/13 |
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The hedge fund industry added assets for the third consecutive
month in September, taking in a net USD4.1bn, or 0.2 per cent of assets,
according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research.
This estimate is based ...Read more |
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AIMA announces Jack Inglis as new CEO | Nov 15/13 |
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London – 11 November 2013: The Alternative Investment Management Association
(AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association, has announced that Jack
Inglis will be the new CEO of the organisation.
Mr Inglis joins from ...Read more |
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Equity hedge and event driven managers outperform in October, says GAM | Nov 06/13 |
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October got off to a tentative start with investors focused on
the US debt ceiling impasse, according to Anthony Lawler, portfolio manager
at GAM.This issue was temporarily resolved by mid-month and
markets broadly ral...Read more |
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Apex Technologies selects Eze Castle Integration to Deliver Private Cloud Services | Nov 05/13 |
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Hedge Funds Care Canada Gala | Nov 01/13 |
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Hedge Funds Care Canada Gala Raises C$200,000 for Prevention and Treatment of
Child Abuse
Toronto ON November 1, 2013 – Hedge Funds Care
Canada is pleased to announce that this year’s
"Open Your Hearts to th...Read more |
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How to avoid high TERs from killing your fund | Oct 31/13 |
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The traditional route of setting up a hedge fund usually involves engaging in
a series of meetings with lawyers, fund administrators, accountants, prime
brokers and compliance professionals. As would-be managers tot up the dif...Read more |
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Maxim Group Selects SunGard for Increased Operational Efficiency | Oct 30/13 |
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Maxim Group, a full service investment banking and brokerage
firm providing services to hedge funds, investment advisors, family offices and
high net worth individuals has selected
SunGard’s VPM. Now live, the solution he...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Cut Brent Crude Net-Longs to Lowest in Four Months | Oct 29/13 |
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Hedge funds
and other money managers cut bullish bets on
Brent crude
to the lowest in almost four months, according to ICE Futures
Europe.
Speculative bets that prices will rise, in futures and options combined,
outnumbe...Read more |
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Rush to Hedge Funds Seen Courting Lame Returns: Credit Markets | Oct 29/13 |
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Debt investors are funneling 17 times more cash into
hedge funds
than into junk-bond funds that returned more in each year since the crisis,
heralding a shift from chasing yields to preserving cash as
interest
rates rise. ...Read more |
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Want returns? Choose alternative investments | Oct 24/13 |
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Everyone’s looking
for an edge. And for investors, that can mean choosing non-traditional
strategies and asset classes.
Managed futures, real estate, and timber funds were among the alternatives
explored during a panel sess...Read more |
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People alpha key to delivering returns, says Citi Prime Finance survey | Oct 23/13 |
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Hedge funds that invest more in people management tend to deliver
higher average returns than their peers, according to a study by Citi
Prime Finance.
Citi Prime Finance’s analysis of smaller to mid-sized firms with
between...Read more |
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IOSCO finds shortcomings with hedge fund survey | Oct 22/13 |
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Data limitations are preventing global regulators from making an assessment of the possible systemic risks posed by hedge funds, according to a report published Monday.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (...Read more |
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Madoff's Sons Cleared by U.K. Judge | Oct 22/13 |
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This past weekend, a British judge cleared
Bernard Madoff’s sons of wrongdoing regarding a case brought against the
men by the liquidator of their father’s estate in Britain.
Read: Madoff saga takes new twist in U.K.
Judge ...Read more |
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Investors resist hedge fund exodus despite U.S. debt worries | Oct 21/13 |
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Requests to pull money out of hedge funds dropped by a fifth in October as investors shrugged off fears that U.S. politicians might fail to end a stalemate on how to tackle a ballooning debt crisis, data on Friday showed.
SS&C ...Read more |
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Hedge fund managers spending heavily on compliance | Oct 18/13 |
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Global hedge fund managers are spending heavily to keep up with regulatory reforms, according to a recent survey.
New research released Thursday by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), along with the Manag...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Managers Making Significant Investments to Comply with Global Regulatory Changes | Oct 17/13 |
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London - 17 October 2013: A global survey of hedge fund managers reveals that they are making significant investments in their firms’ infrastructure to comply with new regulatory requirements. According to The Cost of Compliance, ...Read more |
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For hedge funds, debt crisis largely business as usual | Oct 16/13 |
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Hanging tough
seems to have been the right strategy for a good number of money
managers now that it appears a stop-gap deal to avoid a federal debt
default and reopen the U.S. government is on the verge of passing.
Hedge fu...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Closures Can’t Slow Retail-Merger Flurry | Oct 11/13 |
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FXCM Inc. (FXCM), the largest retail currency broker in the U.S., is leading
a wave of buyouts and mergers in this corner of the $5.3 trillion-a-day
foreign-exchange market as tougher regulation increases costs.
In the p...Read more |
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SOME KEY EU MARKETS ‘GOLD-PLATING’ AIFMD – AIMA/EY SURVEY | Oct 11/13 |
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London – 11 October 2013: Some key European markets are “gold-plating” the
marketing requirements for legacy national private placement regimes (NPPR) over
and above those required by the Alternative Investment Fund Managers D...Read more |
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AIMA publishes updated Guide to Sound Practices or Hedge Fund Valuation | Oct 11/13 |
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London – 9 October 2013: The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA),
the global hedge fund industry association, has updated its Guide to Sound
Practices for Hedge Fund Valuation.
The new edition of the guide ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Care Gala supporting prevention of Child Abuse | Oct 11/13 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Canada’s Hedge Fund / Alternatives Community Once Again
Open Their Hearts to Support the Prevention of Child Abuse
Tenth Annual Hedge Funds Care Canada Gala to be held October 23
Toronto ON October 10...Read more |
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Kinetic Partners offers background checks on fund managers | Oct 07/13 |
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Kinetic Partners is now offering a global background checking
service to complement its investor led fund, fund manager and service
provider operational due diligence (ODD) services.
Individuals applicable for backgrou...Read more |
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How to Look Under a Hedge Fund's Hood | Oct 04/13 |
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Seven questions investors should ask before investingNow that hedge funds are allowed to advertise their wares in the marketplace,
it will be important for investors to understand this sophisticated asset.
If you meet the incom...Read more |
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Investors turn their backs on "robot" hedge funds | Oct 03/13 |
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Investors in the $330 billion computer-driven hedge fund sector are pulling
out money for the first time since 2008, data showed on Wednesday, signaling the
possible start of a bigger exit from the industry.
These so-call...Read more |
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Hedge fund bets on falling corn prices hit record | Oct 01/13 |
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Hedge funds
hiked their positioning on corn prices to the most bearish ever, amid increasing
hopes for US harvest yields, but turned more positive on raw sugar, and on lean
hogs in which bets on rising values hit a rec...Read more |
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U.S. study says asset managers could pose systemic market risk | Oct 01/13 |
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Some activities of asset managers could pose risks to the broader
marketplace, according to a study released by the Treasury Department on Monday
that boosted the likelihood the largest such firms would face tougher fede...Read more |
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Morningstar’s Nadia Papagiannis Demystifies Alternatives | Oct 01/13 |
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The highlight of last week’s
Alternative Investments Conference for us was definitely Morningstar’s Nadia
Papagiannis’ presentation titled, “Demystifying Alternatives: The ABCs of
Alternative Assets, Strategies and Veh...Read more |
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Blackheath introduces new Managing Director, Jeff Kowal | Sep 30/13 |
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Introducing new Managing Director,
Jeffrey Kowal
I'm pleased to announce
that Jeffrey Kowal has joined the Blackheath team, as
Managing Director B...Read more |
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Sprott launches offshore fund with Zijin Mining Group | Sep 30/13 |
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Sprott has launched an offshore global mining fund with Zijin
Mining Group.
All relevant regulatory approvals have been received in Canada and the
People's Republic of China and the fund has been initially seeded with ...Read more |
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