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Ex-DKR Oasis Analyst Plans Japan-Focused Hedge Fund | Jul 21/09 |
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Frederic Eechaute, a former senior analyst at
DKR Oasis Management Co. LP, will start a Japan- focused equity hedge fund
that trades stocks using its own analyst database.
Eechaute, who will split his time between Tokyo...Read more |
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Hedging back in vogue among lucrative convertibles | Jul 21/09 |
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Hedge funds stand to make gains from convertible bonds arbitrage again after
last year's huge losses decimated the sector, though improving markets have made
the job more complicated.
Managers have been using a simple "...Read more |
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Citadel Is Said to Take U.S. Stock Exchange Strategy to Europe | Jul 21/09 |
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Citadel Investment Group LLC, the $12 billion hedge fund firm founded by
Ken Griffin, is seeking to replicate in Europe the success of its
four-year-old strategy of investing in U.S. equity markets.
The firm will buy a majo...Read more |
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Boone Pickens Seeks Investors For Hedge Funds | Jul 21/09 |
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Well, here we go again. After his energy fund lost 98% and his equities fund
lost 64% in 2008, Boone Pickens is back for more. Yep, he is raising money for
new iterations of essentially the same hedge funds that his hedge fund...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Assets Rise for First Time in Year to $1.43 Trillion | Jul 21/09 |
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Hedge-fund assets grew for the first time in a year, to $1.43 trillion, as
investment performance improved and customer withdrawals decreased in the second
quarter, according to data compiled by Hedge Fund Research Inc.
Asse...Read more |
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Ex-Pimco Palghat to Double Assets in Fixed-Interest Hedge Fund | Jul 20/09 |
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Kapstream Capital, Australia’s biggest fixed-income hedge fund, will almost
double assets under management in the next month as pension funds seek returns
in all market conditions.
The Sydney-based
firm has secured in...Read more |
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Ex-hedge fund manager sentenced for insider trading | Jul 20/09 |
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* Tom sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison
* Charges stem from $10.5 bln Citizens' deal in May 2004
BOSTON, July 17 (Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager in Massachusetts was
sentenced to a year and a day in f...Read more |
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Madoff trustee sues hedge funds in attempt to claw back $870m | Jul 20/09 |
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Irving Picard, the trustee charged with recovering money for investors in
Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, is suing four offshore hedge funds in an attempt
to claw back nearly $870m.
The filings ramp up Mr Picard's efforts to r...Read more |
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Can This Hedge Fund Trick Boost Your Returns? | Jul 20/09 |
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Sometimes investing seems so simple.
Buy stocks that will outperform their competitors.
Avoid stocks that will underperform, or even better,
sell them short. Then sit back and watch the money come pouring in.
That's the ...Read more |
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Obama bill seeks to shine spotlight on hedge funds | Jul 17/09 |
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The Obama administration on Wednesday sent Congress legislation that would
pry open hedge funds to wider scrutiny, requiring those with more than $30
million under management to register with the government and greatly boost
...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Manager Indicted In Petters Remains Jailed; Trial Delayed | Jul 17/09 |
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Gregory Bell, the Illinois hedge fund manager charged with helping cover up a
multi-billion Ponzi scheme, remains in jail despite winning bail, as the alleged
mastermind of that fraud won a delay in his trial.
Thomas Petters,...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Manager Freed! | Jul 17/09 |
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A federal magistrate judge has ordered the release on bail of an Illinois
hedge fund manager.
Gregory Bell allegedly helped Minnesota Businessman Tom Petters orchestrate what
prosecutors call a $3.5 billion ponzi scheme.
Pr...Read more |
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Pickens Said to Seek Investors for Hedge Funds After 79% Gain | Jul 17/09 |
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T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire energy investor hit by losses and client
redemptions in 2008, is raising money after his hedge funds gained as much as 79
percent this year, according to two people familiar with the matte...Read more |
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U.S. Treasury Proposes Hedge-Fund Registration Legislation | Jul 16/09 |
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The U.S. Treasury proposed legislation to require hedge-funds managing at
least $30 million to register with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The rules would require hedge funds to report on a confidential basis t...Read more |
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Bermuda reports progress in enhancing financial regulation | Jul 16/09 |
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority says it made significant
progress toward enhancing the regulatory framework for Bermuda's
financial services industry during 2008.
Its 2008 Annual Report says this involved the introduction of key...Read more |
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Invest like a hedge fund with one simple ETF | Jul 16/09 |
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The average investor has no shot at hedge-fund style
strategies. It takes big money and a staff of gurus. But ProShares is
trying to change all of that with the introduction of its latest ETF.
Did it get the job done?
By Andre...Read more |
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Investors head for cover as falling equities test nerves | Jul 16/09 |
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Investors have responded to a fall
in world equity markets by scaling back their risk taking and returning
to recession-proof stocks, according to a survey of fund managers by
Merrill Lynch.
Average cash balances rose to 4....Read more |
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Swindler Israel Gets Two More Years for Bail-Jumping | Jul 16/09 |
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Hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel was ordered
on Wednesday [July 15] to serve two more years behind bars for a wild
escapade in which he faked his own death in an attempt to avoid a
20-year prison sentence.
Mr. Israel's vanis...Read more |
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State Street Announces Private Equity Index Results | Jul 16/09 |
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New Page 2
STATE STREET ANNOUNCES Private Equity Index RESULTS
Please download the report from
here.
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Demand Rises for Operational Experts | Jul 15/09 |
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In the post–Bernie
Madoff era, it seems an investor can’t have too much help. At least
that’s what the emergence of independent hedge fund operations experts,
the newest group of consultants looking for a place at the table, se...Read more |
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Myners promises alternative to draft EU hedge rules | Jul 15/09 |
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The European Commission’s draft directive on hedge funds and private equity funds can and will be improved, according to
the financial services minister, Lord Myners. “The UK government does
agree there is a case for regulation ...Read more |
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Lehman’s U.K. Administrator Seeks to Return Hedge-Fund Assets | Jul 15/09 |
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. may
return hedge-fund assets as soon as next year that were frozen
when the New York-based securities firm collapsed in the largest
bankruptcy on record.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Lehma...Read more |
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HSBC Sued Over $578 Million ‘Fake’ Profit From Madoff | Jul 15/09 |
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HSBC Holdings Plc and a Cayman
Islands-based hedge fund were sued by the trustee liquidating
Bernard Madoff’s business over claims they withdrew $578 million
in “fake” profit from the con man’s firm before it collapsed.
...Read more |
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ML note - hedgies sell equities | Jul 15/09 |
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Bank of America-Merrill Lynch’s
latest “Hedge Fund Monitor” note shows managers are aggressively
selling equities and building a record net long position in 2-year
Treasuries.According to the note, hedge funds last week continu...Read more |
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100 Women in Hedge Funds Award Goes To Kathryn Hall | Jul 15/09 |
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CEO and CIO of Hall Capital Partners, Kathryn Hall, will be awarded the 100 Women in Hedge Funds 2009 Industry Leadership Award at its New York Gala, on November 18, 2009.
Each year, the organization identifies a woman whose pro...Read more |
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MFA commends CDS working group report | Jul 15/09 |
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The Managed Funds Association has commended a working
group paper analyzing US and European credit default swap clearing
solutions.
The paper, 'Report to the Supervisors of the Major OTC Derivatives
Dealers on the Proposals of...Read more |
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Integrated Asset Management Corp. Purchases Common Shares of Augen Capital Corp. | Jul 15/09 |
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hares outstanding: 36,615,615
TORONTO, July 14
/CNW/ - Augen Capital Corp. ("Augen") (TSX-V: AUG) announced today that
Integrated Asset Management Corp. ("IAM") has, since the filing of an
early warning r...Read more |
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RBC Hedge 250 Index(R) returned 0.33 per cent in June 2009 | Jul 15/09 |
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RBC Capital Markets today reported that for the month of June 2009 the RBC Hedge
250 Index® had a net return of 0.33 per cent.
This brings the year-to-date return of the Index to 10.72 per cent. These
returns are estimated a...Read more |
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Investors speak out against EU plans for fund regulation | Jul 14/09 |
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INSTITUTIONAL investors yesterday rallied
behind the hedge fund industry’s efforts to combat the European
Commission’s (EC) draft directive on the regulation of funds.The
National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), one of Eur...Read more |
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U.S. judge gives fraud lawyer 20 years in prison | Jul 14/09 |
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Marc Dreier, a high-profile New York lawyer who admitted to a $400
million investment fund fraud that unraveled at the same time as Bernard Madoff's huge swindle, was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Monday.
Dreier'...Read more |
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Ex-Morgan Stanley traders launch alternatives firm | Jul 14/09 |
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Cinneas Foreign Exchange LLC, an alternative investment management firm
specializing in momentum based trading in the foreign exchange market,
has announced the launch of a Commodity Trading Advisor. Created for
individual inve...Read more |
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First No-Load, Open-End Hedge Fund Replication Mutual Fund Marks One-Year Anniversary | Jul 14/09 |
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The IQ ALPHA Hedge Strategy Fund Posts Strong Results During
Turbulent Period
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The IQ ALPHA Hedge S...Read more |
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Madoff Sent To North Carolina Prison | Jul 14/09 |
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Bernard Madoff’s 150 years in the clink just got a little tougher.
The convicted hedge fund fraudster, who admitted to running a $65
billion Ponzi scheme earlier this year, was moved from his Manhattan
jail cell to a federal pr...Read more |
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Hedge fund star to launch new UK fund | Jul 13/09 |
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LANSDOWNE PARTNERS, one of Mayfair’s largest hedge funds, is to open its
doors to fund manager Patrick Degorce, a former French navy officer who
split from the high-profile activist investor Christopher Hohn earlier this ...Read more |
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Feeder fund assets frozen in Petters Ponzi case | Jul 13/09 |
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* SEC accuses Gregory Bell, Lancelot Mgmt of fraud
* Judge orders Bell to repatriate overseas assets
* Lawsuit also accuses Thomas Petters of securities fraud (Adds details,
background)
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - A...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Record Strong First Half | Jul 13/09 |
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The Wall Street Journal reports: Hedge-fund performance
jumped in the first half of the year, easily outpacing stock-market performance
and marking a rebound from a disastrous 2008, according to data from Hennessee
Group LLC...Read more |
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Ex-Credit Suisse Trader Satchell to Start Credit Hedge Fund | Jul 13/09 |
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Stephen Satchell, the former Tokyo- based head of Asian proprietary credit
trading at
Credit Suisse Group AG, plans to start an Asia-focused credit hedge fund as
early as this month.
The GCS Asian Opportunity Fund I w...Read more |
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Opportunity to bring hedge funds onshore | Jul 13/09 |
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Europeans intent on blasting offshore hedge funds, manifested in the
somewhat misguided proposal for a European Union draft directive [on
alternative investment fund managers], should focus instead on a great
opportuni...Read more |
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Cesr plans to tighten rules for short selling | Jul 13/09 |
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Hedge funds and other short sellers of equities would be forced to reveal
short positions of as little as 0.1 per cent of a company’s outstanding
stock under proposals outlined by the Committee of European Securities
R...Read more |
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Augustus Buys Canadian, Norwegian Currencies Against Aussie | Jul 13/09 |
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Augustus Asset Managers Ltd., a
London-based money-management firm with about $7.6 billion in
assets, is betting that the Canadian and Norwegian currencies
will outperform the Australian dollar, which is “overvalued.”
...Read more |
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Sprott announces reorganization and change of name to Cadomin | Jul 13/09 |
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Sprott Molybdenum Participation Corporation announced today that it
has effected the distribution of substantially all of its assets to its
shareholders, consisting of a cash distribution of approximately $1.76
per share and on...Read more |
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Aima welcomes white paper on reforming financial markets | Jul 10/09 |
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The Alternative Investment Management Association has
welcomed comments about the hedge fund industry contained in the
Treasury's white paper on reforming financial markets.
Chief executive Richard Baker (pictured) says the Tre...Read more |
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Man Group funds under management down USD3.5bn in Q2 | Jul 10/09 |
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Man Group's funds under management totalled USD43.3bn at
30 June, a fall of USD3.5bn from the USD46.8bn reported at 31 March
2009.
However, strong private investor sales for the quarter of USD3.4bn
and reduced redemptions led ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Little Changed in June, Drew $4 Billion | Jul 10/09 |
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Hedge funds had net inflows of $4
billion in June as the index measuring their performance
remained little changed after posting its longest stretch of
monthly gains since July 2007, according to Eurekahedge Pte.
T...Read more |
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Hedge funds for Average Joes? Yes, they do exist | Jul 10/09 |
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Irish-American author J.P. Donleavy, in his wonderful book The Unexpurgated Code,
details the difficulties of social climbing in England if you are not
to the manor born. People who try to invest in hedge funds will find
themse...Read more |
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Thomson Reuters’ latest tool will give investment managers ‘an edge’ | Jul 10/09 |
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Thomson Reuters has launched an investment management software solution -
Lipper for Investment Management – that can leverage Lipper’s global fund data
and content
The solution is aimed at providing...Read more |
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Buffett Bidder Calls Lunch ‘Investment in Our Future’ | Jul 09/09 |
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The hedge fund manager that won
Warren Buffett’s annual charity auction said the $1.68 million
price for a steak lunch with the billionaire is “an investment
in our future” amid the global recession.
Salida Capital...Read more |
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Hennessee Hedge Fund Index rose 0.64% in June | Jul 09/09 |
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An index of hedge funds run by consulting firm Hennessee Group LLC rose
0.64% in June, leaving it up 11.74% in the first half of 2009, easily
out-pacing equity and bond market benchmarks. The Standard & Poor's
500 index ros...Read more |
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Penjing’s Wu to Expand Seeding of New Hedge Funds | Jul 09/09 |
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Ronnie Wu, chief investment officer
of the $400 million hedge fund of funds house Penjing Asset
Management Ltd., will start a pool of money dedicated to
providing early investments to new hedge funds next month.
I...Read more |
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NYSE Technologies secures OneTick deal with Man Group | Jul 09/09 |
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AHL, a quantitative investment manager and a division of
Man Group, has selected NYSE Technologies' OneTick solution to serve
the needs of its multi-asset class research groups.
OneTick is a tick capture and time-series analysi...Read more |
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