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Stanley Fink Plans Trend Fund in Challenge to Man Group’s AHL | Feb 22/10 |
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Stanley Fink, whose investments in trend-following hedge funds
lifted Man Group Plc’s assets more than 10-fold in seven years as chief
executive officer, is starting a rival to his former employer’s largest
fund, AHL.
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Moore, Maverick join herd of hedge funds headed east | Feb 22/10 |
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With investors wanting more of Asia's stellar growth in their
portfolios, top global hedge funds such as Moore Capital, Maverick
Capital, Viking Global Investors and Stark Investments are set to open
offices in Asia over the ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Transparency: The Long-Term Implications of Separate Account Management | Feb 22/10 |
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Hedge fund managers and
investors alike have embraced separate account management as a panacea
to their operational risk concerns and a quick win in the quest for
greater transparency. But they should think again. In their ru...Read more |
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Wall Street Firms and Hedge Funds recruit CIA, Ex-Military Intelligence | Feb 22/10 |
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Wall Street firms and hedge funds are
actively recruiting former CIA and military intelligence officers in a
bid to boost their security and risk management practices by looking
for expertise outside the corporate world. Fina...Read more |
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Hedge funds increase net long positions in crude oil futures | Feb 22/10 |
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An easing of the crisis in Europe gave energy markets a firm tone last
week that enabled crude oil futures to gain nearly 8% amid mixed
economic news and some concerns about supply. A strike at French oil
refineries lifted pric...Read more |
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CFA Releases Revised Global Investment Performance Standards | Feb 22/10 |
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The CFA
Institute has just released the most comprehensive edition of the Global
Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) to date. These
standards have been under review for some considerable time.
The
new standards...Read more |
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SEC to consider New Short Sale Curbs Next Week | Feb 22/10 |
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U.S. securities
regulators will consider new short sale restrictions at an open meeting
next week, a person familiar with regulators' plans said on Friday
[Feb. 19].
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to mee...Read more |
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Brooklyn School Dean Accused of Extorting Hedge Fund | Feb 19/10 |
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A Brooklyn school dean was accused of trying to extort a hedge fund out of $4
million by claiming he could prevent a federal inmate from telling investigators
about alleged insider trades by the unidentified fund.
Milton Bal...Read more |
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Hedge fund firm GLG's assets boosted by inflows | Feb 19/10 |
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* Assets under management $22.2 bln, Q4 net inflows $723 mln
* Hedge funds return 28.1 pct in 2009
* Q4 GAAP net loss $75.3 mln
Hedge fund firm GLG Partners (GLG.N)
saw assets under management rise marginally in the f...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Still Favour London | Feb 19/10 |
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Heavy tax demands on London's under-fire hedge fund industry are unlikely to
spark an exodus of operators to rival financial hubs such as Dublin or Geneva, a
survey by property advisor Cushman & Wakefield showed.
The stud...Read more |
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Man Group pares Gains as BlackRock Bid Talk Fades | Feb 18/10 |
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Man Group shares pared gains
but were still Wednesday's top FTSE 100 riser after a source close to
BlackRock said the U.S. fund firm had no interest in buying the hedge
fund firm.
Shares in Man, the world's largest listed he...Read more |
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Investors Exit Some Europe Bets but Remain Bearish | Feb 18/10 |
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Some hedge funds have started to adjust their investment strategies as
European officials voice harsher criticism of investors who have used exotic
investments to bet against the debt of countries like Greece, traders said.
E...Read more |
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Australia Property Firms May Seek Hedge Fund Cash | Feb 18/10 |
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Australian unlisted property companies, facing a funding gap as banks cut
back on loans, may turn to alternative investors such as hedge funds as they
seek to repay maturing debt, according to Nomura Holdings Inc.
Lenders in...Read more |
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Spain tightens proposed hedge fund rules | Feb 17/10 |
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European Union president Spain tightened proposed rules to regulate hedge
funds and private equity groups, prompting accusations of protectionism from
within the industry but potentially speeding up moves towards a deal.
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U.S. presses for Rajaratnam criminal trial first | Feb 17/10 |
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U.S. prosecutors argued on Tuesday that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj
Rajaratnam, indicted on fraud charges in a sprawling insider trading probe,
would have an unfair advantage if a civil trial by market regulators went ahe...Read more |
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Prominent hedge funds jumping into financials | Feb 17/10 |
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* Hedge fund investors raise bets on financial sector
* CIT gets vote of confidence for bankruptcy turnaround
* Paulson buying big and small banks
Prominent hedge fund managers voted with their wallets in the fourth quart...Read more |
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Citigroup Proving Irresistible to Hedge Funds Led by Paulson | Feb 17/10 |
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Firms run by
John Paulson,
Eric Mindich and
George Soros purchased almost half a billion shares in Citigroup Inc. last
quarter as more than 120 hedge funds said they bought stock in the bank.
Paulson & Co. reporte...Read more |
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Female touch is boosting hedge funds | Feb 17/10 |
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Women are excelling in an
industry where their innovative, 'risk-intelligent' qualities are paying
dividends
Unlike most lists of its kind, our survey
of the top 50 female hedge fund managers does not include...Read more |
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Sprott Asset Management appoints Colbourne Senior Portfolio Manager | Feb 17/10 |
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Sprott Asset Management, which manages
the Sprott family of mutual funds, hedge funds and discretionary accounts, has
appointed Scott Colbourne to the position of senior portfolio
manager.
Colbourne started his career at ...Read more |
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Arrow targets June 30 closing for Arrow High Yield Fund | Feb 17/10 |
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Arrow targets June 30 closing for Arrow High Yield Fund
Fund capped at $500 million in assets
The Arrow High Yield Fund is scheduled to close to new
investment on June 30, Arrow Hedge Partners Inc. said Tuesday. The propose...Read more |
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Hedge Funds start year in the red as global markets edge down | Feb 16/10 |
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Hedge fund strategies ended the first month of the year down 0.94
per cent as stocks pulled back amid fears about the global economy and the
fiscal health of some Eurozone countries, according to the Lipper Hedge Fund
Comp...Read more |
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UK hedge funds 'entering buying frenzy' | Feb 16/10 |
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Lloyds is expected to head up a "buying frenzy" that has hit the UK markets,
a source has reported.
Angus Rigby, chief executive officer at TD Waterhouse, reports that top
trading figures rose by 53 per cent las...Read more |
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Appeals Court to Weigh Hedge Fund Recordings Fight | Feb 12/10 |
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Court to hear appeal of order requiring defense to divulge wiretap
evidence to SECA federal appeals court has blocked an order requiring
defense attorneys in history's largest hedge fund insider trading case
to rel...Read more |
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Local manager offers BVI hedge fund to Thais | Feb 12/10 |
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Foreign investment by local investors has grown
rapidly in recent years supported by market deregulation, growing
investor sophistication and Thailand's ongoing political impasse.
Foreign investment funds managed 55...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Fashion Guru Has a Sales Boom | Feb 12/10 |
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WE ALWAYS knew women were good at multi-tasking, but Britt
Lintner really does take the concept to a new extreme.
Regular readers may remember Lintner, who heads up her own
flourishing wom...Read more |
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RBC hedge 250 index ends January with flat performance | Feb 12/10 |
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The RBC Hedge 250 Index recorded a slight
estimated fall of 0.18% in January. The return for December 2009 was
finalised at a positive 0.73%
The index is an investable benchmark of the performance of the hedge
...Read more |
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UK lawmakers: EU hedge fund plan threatens economy | Feb 11/10 |
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European Union plans to regulate managers of hedge funds and other
alternative investments need changing to avoid damaging Europe's economy and
curbing investor choice, a report by British lawmakers said on Wednesday.
In ...Read more |
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Fund Manager Stein Sentenced to Nine Years for Fraud | Feb 11/10 |
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New York hedge-fund manager Edward T. Stein was sentenced to
nine years in prison for running a $46 million Ponzi scheme that preyed upon
friends and acquaintances.
Stein pleaded guilty in June to four counts of securities
...Read more |
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Service providers shift gears as fund launches take off | Feb 11/10 |
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After a sometimes nervous period of retrenchment and consolidation, service
providers to the hedge fund industry in the British Virgin Islands such as
administrators and law firms are moving up the gears as the upsurge in ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Research Company Morningstar Acquires Regulatory Specialist Team | Feb 11/10 |
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Independent hedge fund research company, Morningstar, Inc. has acquired the
Footnoted business of Financial Fineprint Inc., a privately held firm based in
Peekskill, N.Y.
Footnoted.org was founded in 2003 by Michelle Leder, ...Read more |
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Fund Of Hedge Funds Firm IAM Sets Up Shop In Spain | Feb 10/10 |
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Fund of hedge funds firm International Asset Management Limited has opened a
branch office in Spain and is making a push to expand its client base in
Southern Europe.
The office is being headed by Marivi Lorente, who will be ...Read more |
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Survey finds public disclosure of shorts would hurt | Feb 10/10 |
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* Study: public disclosure of shorts would curb liquidity
* Study released on MFA Web site
Forcing investors, including hedge funds, to disclose their short positions
publicly would hurt equity markets by ultimately...Read more |
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Cadbury boss calls for curbs on hedge funds | Feb 10/10 |
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Roger Carr, the outgoing chairman of Cadbury, called last night for action to
curb the influence of hedge funds during hostile takeover bids.
He believes that the funds, which amassed a 30 per cent stake in Cadbury as
it was ...Read more |
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Pension funds tell hedge funds to drop fees | Feb 09/10 |
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Pension funds will fight to force down fees paid to hedge funds following
2008’s $5bn (£3.2bn) exodus after the financial crisis left hedge funds
struggling to win investors back.
Last year thanks to its best performan...Read more |
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Denmark's ATP to up hedge funds, private equity: CEO | Feb 09/10 |
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Pension fund ATP, which manages 609 billion Danish crowns ($112 billion), is
set to invest 1 billion crowns a year in hedge funds as part of a plan to create
an "all weather" portfolio, the fund's chief executive s...Read more |
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Australian single hedge funds return 20.81% in 2009 | Feb 09/10 |
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Australian absolute return and hedge funds enjoyed one of their best
performances on record in 2009, according to a report by Australian Fund
Monitors.
Single funds across all strategies returned 20.81 per cent for their
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FSA warns against heavy-handed EU regulation of hedge funds | Feb 09/10 |
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The chief City regulator added its weight today to growing concerns that EU
plans for regulating the hedge fund industry will prove chaotic and excessively
costly to implement.
The Financial Services Authority said a proposed...Read more |
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Hedge investors pay up for frozen funds | Feb 09/10 |
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London: Hedge funds clients are still paying lavish
fees on $100 billion of money they are unlikely to be able to touch for some
time, in a sign of the lingering damage done to the opaque industry during the
credit crisis.
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Bank of England panel condemns draft EU hedge fund legislation | Feb 08/10 |
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Draft European Union legislation designed to regulate the hedge fund industry
would trigger “systemic failure and widespread market disruption” if it became
law.
Those are the findings of the Financial Markets Law Committee (...Read more |
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Hedge funds start 2010 with small losses - HFR | Feb 08/10 |
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*January's drop follows on heels of strong 2009 returns
*Some prominent managers nurse losses
*Decline came as markets sold off
BOSTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Global hedge funds started 2010 with small losses
after markets...Read more |
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Hedge funds perform well amid business model changes | Feb 08/10 |
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Fitch Ratings says the hedge fund industry performed well in
quarter four 2009 and experienced a return of net new money inflows.
The broad HFRI composite index was up 2.7 per cent in the quarter and 20 per
cent over 200...Read more |
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Hedge-fund manager Jeff Vinik buys Tampa Bay Lightning | Feb 08/10 |
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Jeff Vinik said there really was no place to play hockey where he grew up,
not in Deal, N.J., or in New York City, where his parents moved the family when
he was in eighth grade.
Baseball? Vinik said he was a good-fielding, ...Read more |
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Ex-JPMorgan Asset Manager Osezawa Plans New Japan Hedge Fund | Feb 05/10 |
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J-Flag Investment Co., a Japanese hedge-fund advisory firm, plans to start a
new long-short fund that will target Japan’s smaller companies this year after
its first fund outperformed the benchmark since inception in 2009....Read more |
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Woori, Temasek to launch fund-of-hedge-funds | Feb 05/10 |
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* Woori to launch $30 mln fund-of-hedge-funds with Temasek
* Woori winds-up one of its two absolute return funds
* Woori to deploy capital from wound-up fund to new venture (Adds details of
plan)
By Kim Yeon-hee and P...Read more |
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UK fund firm Hermes to allow fees clawback | Feb 05/10 |
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* Performance fees to be paid over three years
* Instalments to be waived if fund underperforms
* Structure could become "landmark move"
LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Hermes Fund Managers will allow all its inve...Read more |
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Emerging Equity Funds Post Most Outflows in 24 Weeks | Feb 05/10 |
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Emerging market equity funds lost $1.6 billion in weekly withdrawals, the
biggest outflows in 24 weeks, as earnings and Greece’s debt woes raised concerns
that the global recovery may falter, EPFR Global said.
Investors ...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Manager Sprott Sees Gold at $1,500 in 2010 | Feb 05/10 |
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Eric Sprott, whose Sprott Hedge Fund increased more than
fivefold in nine years, said gold may rise to $1,500 an ounce this year and
$2,000 within two years as the U.S. government takes measures to counter the
credit crunch....Read more |
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Hedge fund manager is banned and fined by FSA | Feb 04/10 |
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A millionaire hedge fund manager was yesterday thrown out of the City for
massaging his performance figures.
Simon Treacher, an emerging markets specialist who helped run a £900m fund
for BlueBay Asset Management, was also f...Read more |
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Hedge fund industry most resilient | Feb 04/10 |
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The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA)
authorised more new hedge fund management companies than any other financial
advisory or trading sector during the last quarter of 2009, it has emerged.
Research by corporate financ...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Startup Assets Declined 36% in 2009 | Feb 03/10 |
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Assets raised by hedge-fund startups in 2009 fell 36 percent to $15 billion
from the previous year, the lowest figure on record, a survey by AR magazine
showed.
The startups that raised the most money from investors were Woo...Read more |
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