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Hockin nominated as IMF executive director | Dec 01/09 |
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced on Monday the
nomination of Tom Hockin as executive director of the International
Monetary Fund, representing the constituency of Canada, Ireland and the
Caribbean. Hockin’s nomination wi...Read more |
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STATE STREET TO EXPAND ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT SERVICING CAPABILITIES | Dec 01/09 |
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AGREES TO ACQUIRE LEADING EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATOR
Acquisition
Expected to Make State Street Largest Alternative Asset Servicing Provider
Globally With $600 Billion in Assets Under Administration
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Lyxor Says It May Turn Bullish on Japanese Hedge Funds in 2010 | Nov 30/09 |
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Lyxor Asset Management, an investment arm of
Societe Generale SA, said it may start investing more in Japanese hedge-fund
managers next year as it expects a rebound after the recent sell-off in the
country’s stock marke...Read more |
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Furious investors warn troubled Dubai it will 'never raise a penny again' | Nov 30/09 |
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Hopes Abu Dhabi will ride
to the rescue of troubled state as experts fear crisis could plunge
world back into recessionFurious bondholders have arranged emergency talks with
Dubai officials this
week in an effort ...Read more |
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Hedge funds mull ditching UK for Switzerland, Asia | Nov 30/09 |
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Recent British tax hikes spurred talk of funds' exodusLONDON — They're getting nervous in Mayfair and Belgravia, London's hedge
fund heartlands.
Luxury car dealerships, designer boutiques and high-end restaurants have
thrive...Read more |
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Hedge funds eye Asian growth as Bolton heads east | Nov 27/09 |
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Fidelity's Anthony Bolton is unlikely to be the last top UK investor to move
to Asia as hedge funds eye up attractive investment opportunities and cash-rich
clients hungry for absolute returns.
While not strictly a hedge fu...Read more |
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Sparx Aims to Raise as Much as 20 Billion Yen for Ecology Fund | Nov 27/09 |
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Sparx Group Co., Asia’s biggest hedge-fund company, plans to raise 20
billion yen ($230 million) for a fund aimed at investing in Japanese
environmental technology firms as mandates to cut carbon emissions spur demand.
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Black might face fraud charge | Nov 26/09 |
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Case involves Bermuda fund. Swiss investors have filed two lawsuitsMontreal money manager Hans Black is in hot water in Bermuda.Bermuda
newspaper The Royal Gazette reported that police in the tax haven have
recommended he be pro...Read more |
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Keells to Invest $100 Million in Sri Lanka Hotels | Nov 26/09 |
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John Keells Holdings Plc., Sri
Lanka’s biggest diversified company, plans to invest about $100
million building new resorts to benefit from an economic
resurgence after the end of the South Asian island’s civil war.
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AIMA Statement on Report By AIFM Directive Rapporteur | Nov 26/09 |
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“We appreciate the work Jean-Paul Gauzès has put
into this report on the AIFM Directive, and we are grateful for his
recognition of the importance of alternative investment funds (AIFs) in
financing the European economy. We agr...Read more |
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Rise in demand for hedge funds fails to benefit managers | Nov 25/09 |
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Compensation for regional fund managers, which declined an estimated 50
per cent in 2008, has failed to pick up in spite of the continued
growth in performance that hedge funds have seen this year, industry
players told Emirate...Read more |
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Hedge Funds May Account for 40% of Bank Capital, Report Says | Nov 25/09 |
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Hedge funds provided as much as 40
percent of the money raised this year by U.S. and European banks
as they sought to offset losses and meet government capital
requirements, according to Morgan Stanley.
Financial f...Read more |
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Doing the Diligence | Nov 25/09 |
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It has becoming glaringly clear, in the wake of Ponzi schemes
(Bernard Madoff, Arthur Nadel, Nicholas Cosmos, Alan Stanford),
hedge-fund insider trading scandals (Raj Rajaratnam at Galleon Partners
being the latest as of press ...Read more |
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Northern Trust's Hedge Fund Monitor(TM) Solution Provides Greater Transparency for Hedge Fund Invest | Nov 25/09 |
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Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS)
has enhanced its offering to clients investing in hedge funds -
including funds of hedge funds managers and direct institutional
investors - with the launch of a new set of compliance monitoring
c...Read more |
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Managed futures hedge funds hit by volatility -Lipper | Nov 25/09 |
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* Managed futures funds down 1.41 pct in October
* Down 0.97 pct year-to-date, some big names struggle
* Best-performing strategy of 2008
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Recent volatility ...Read more |
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Long-thawed ABCP market simmering to a boil | Nov 25/09 |
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Hedge funds snap up notes in elusive search for double-digit return
Almost a year after the completion of the
landmark deal to save the $32-billion asset-backed commercial paper sector,
one of the key pledges of the de...Read more |
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Hedge funds may get $11 bln frozen at Lehman | Nov 24/09 |
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* Lehman Brothers Intl (Europe) sets plan to return assets
* LBIE would permit return of $11 bln by end of March
* PwC says plan needs approval by 90 percent of clients
Lehman Brothers International (Europe), where
...Read more |
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SEC to Focus on Derivatives as Insider Probes Expand | Nov 24/09 |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will focus on financial
instruments such as derivatives as it broadens a crackdown on insider trading by
hedge funds, enforcement director
Robert Khuzami said.
“The days of insi...Read more |
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Hedge funds boost stock exposure in Q3 | Nov 24/09 |
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Hedge funds, in the third quarter, showed their greatest appetite for stock
market risk in two years, according to research from Goldman Sachs on Monday.
The investment bank's latest Hedge Fund Trend Monitor, which analyzed
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Investor Confidence Commentary | Nov 24/09 |
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Investor Confidence Commentary
24 November 2009
Andrew Capon
State Street Global Markets
Balancing act
Thirty-five years ago Philippe Petit walked between the twin towers of the World
Trade Center in New York on...Read more |
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Hedge funds plan onshore versions | Nov 23/09 |
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More than half of European hedge fund companies plan to launch
regulated, onshore versions of their strategies or have already done so,
according to HedgeFund Intelligence, a research group.A fifth of
European h...Read more |
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Trinity Hedge Fund welcomed in Cayman | Nov 23/09 |
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Speaking at the official launch of the Trinity Hedge Fund held at Grand Old
House on Wednesday 17 November, Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush said that the country
needed to expand the number of players in the industry.
Mr Bush said ...Read more |
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Horseman Capital co-founder throws in the towel | Nov 23/09 |
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John Horseman has lost his faith in markets. “The market asks questions of
us. You can either believe or leave,” said the co-founder of London hedge
fund group Horseman Capital, announcing his decision to step down from
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Pequot Employee Told His Therapist That Samberg Sought Tips | Nov 20/09 |
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The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S.
insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in
2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., ...Read more |
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Petters says he tried to "fix" fraud at his company | Nov 20/09 |
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* Prosecution begins cross-examination
* Petters accused of $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme
Federal prosecutors on Thursday
confronted Tom Petters over his claim that after he belatedly became aware of
the fraud that bankrupt...Read more |
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Spherix’s Lee Tells Judge He Got Inside Tips From Asia Source | Nov 20/09 |
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Richard Choo-Beng Lee, the co- founder of Spherix Capital LLC who is
cooperating in a U.S. probe of Galleon Group, told a judge at his guilty plea
last month that he received insider information from “one of my sources in ...Read more |
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Private equity eyes illiquid hedge fund stakes | Nov 20/09 |
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Hedge fund investors stuck in products with illiquid assets are increasingly
seeing interest in their stakes from specialist private equity or other buyers
as markets recover, according to broker Tullett Prebon (TLPR.L).
He...Read more |
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Boeing To Invest $1.7B In HFs | Nov 20/09 |
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Boeing will seek direct hedge funds for
investments, worth $1.7 billion, by early 2010, Pensions & Investments
reports. The aerospace and defense company is planning to invest in the funds,
which may include separate acc...Read more |
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Time Is Right for Hedge Funds, Manager Says | Nov 20/09 |
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Despite a tough run for hedge funds last year, at least one manager believes
a number of factors have combined to create an attractive environment for hedge
fund investing.
The Nexar Capital Group, a fund of hedge funds firm ...Read more |
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Ritchie Capital sues to recover Petters firm loans | Nov 19/09 |
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Ritchie Capital Management LLC, a Chicago hedge fund that at one time
managed $2 billion, sued two former executives of companies controlled by
indicted businessman Thomas Petters in a bid to win the return of millions of ...Read more |
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Hedge fund manager Paulson bets BofA to rise more | Nov 19/09 |
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Shares of Bank of America Corp (BAC.N)
stock rose more than 3.5 percent on Wednesday after billionaire hedge fund
manager John Paulson told investors that he expects the stock price to almost
double in the next two years.
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hibro reaches out to hedge fund investors | Nov 19/09 |
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Firm offers commodities fund through Blackstone unit Park Hill
Phibro LLC, which became
embroiled in controversy over star trader Andrew Hall's compensation, is
reaching out to hedge fund investors as Citigroup Inc. relinquis...Read more |
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Hedge fund strategies ride out stock market fall | Nov 19/09 |
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Convertible arbitrage rode out the poor
October performance of risky bonds to return 1.26%, according to the latest
set of alternative indexes from Edhec.
The indexes showed convertible arbitrage posted a return of 45.2...Read more |
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Hedge fund fined for compliance failures | Nov 19/09 |
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
has fined a New York-based hedge fund for making false statements about its
market positions and financing arrangements to the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).
EMF Financial Produ...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Assets Increased $7.8 Billion in October | Nov 18/09 |
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Hedge-fund assets increased by $7.8 billion in October, a sixth straight
monthly gain, led by European managers as the region emerges from recession,
Eurekahedge Pte said.
Net inflows totaled $10.2 billion, while performance...Read more |
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Citi redeems $250 mln from Claren Road after seeding firm | Nov 18/09 |
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Move comes as giant bank reorganizes its alternative investments business
Citigroup Inc. recently redeemed its investment with Claren
Road Asset Management after helping launch the hedge-fund firm in 2005,
according to two pe...Read more |
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Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index relatively flat in October | Nov 18/09 |
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The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index finished
relatively flat in October, up 0.13 per cent, as a result of increased
market volatility.
This brings year-to-date performance of the index to 15.11 per cent.
Dedicated short...Read more |
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RBC Hedge 250 Index returns -0.25 per cent in October | Nov 18/09 |
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The RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of -0.25 per
cent in October, bringing the year-to-date return of the index to 17.20
per cent.
These returns are estimated and will be finalised by the middle of
next month. The return...Read more |
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CFTC allows sale of Topix futures in the US | Nov 17/09 |
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has permitted
the offer and sale in the US of the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s mini futures
contract based on the Topix and futures contracts based on the Topix
Core30 Index and TSE Real Estat...Read more |
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Hedge funds to play bigger role but worries remain | Nov 17/09 |
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Hedge funds will soon play a
bigger role in portfolios, but investors still worry about
getting their money back and understanding what a manager is
doing, according to a new survey released on Monday.
Nearly 60 perce...Read more |
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BMO Capital Buys Assets From Paloma Hedge Fund | Nov 17/09 |
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BMO Capital Markets, the investment-
banking business of Bank of Montreal, hired a team and bought
assets from Paloma Securities LLC to expand its securities-
lending business.
Bank of Montreal added 42 people from...Read more |
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Japanese investors cautious on distressed assets | Nov 17/09 |
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Domestically there are
concerns about creditor protection, while overseas there is wariness
towards hedge funds but more interest in private equity.
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Soros Fund Management Has New 7.34 Million Share Stake in Ford | Nov 17/09 |
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Soros Fund Management LLC took a new
7.34 million stake in Ford Motor Co. as of Sept. 30, it said
today in a regulatory filing.
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Hedge funds, take heart! | Nov 17/09 |
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Many commentators have written the obituary of the hedge fund industry,
or of some of its more esoteric or leverage-dependent strategies,
during the credit crisis.So it may be of some encouragement to see a new launch by Invesco...Read more |
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Aima welcomes Swedish text for AIFM Directive | Nov 16/09 |
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The Alternative Investment Management Association has
welcomed the work of the Swedish Presidency in producing compromise
text for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
Aima says there have been significant conce...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Like Cadbury, Shorts Like Kraft | Nov 16/09 |
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The FT reports increasing hedge fund interest in Cadbury (CBY), showing growing confidence that the hostile Kraft (KFT)
bid will succeed. The short base in Kraft has risen to 3.8% from 3.5% a
week ago; analyst and media comment ...Read more |
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Galleon's Rajaratnam seeks to unseal Khan records | Nov 16/09 |
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Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, accused in the biggest US hedge fund
insider trading case, has asked a federal court to unseal records of a 2001
criminal charge against former trader Roomy Khan, one of the government's
co...Read more |
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Hedge funds on top in five-year snapshot | Nov 16/09 |
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What are we looking for?
Leaders and laggards over the past five years.
Given that some managers may engage in a game of musical chairs between
firms, five years is a decent period to look at long-term performance.
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Foot in the Door: The Art of the Hedge Fund Resume | Nov 16/09 |
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Getting your resume to the top of the pile at a hedge fund can be
tricky -- many are small elite firms that see a slew of top candidates.
But taking the time to perfect your resume can yield great rewards. For
one, there are fe...Read more |
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Hedge fund employee compensation on the rise, says report | Nov 13/09 |
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Following a year in which the hedge fund industry suffered one of its worst periods on record, there are clear signs that a recovery is underway with hedge fund employee compensation on the rise, according to a report by Glocap Se...Read more |
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