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Accused Ponzi Schemer Bailed Out By Alleged Victims | Apr 03/09 |
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The California hedge fund manager at the center of a bizarre alleged Ponzi
scheme has been released on bail, thanks in part to some of his apparent
victims.
Three of the 150 people that authorities say invested in Anthony Vas...Read more |
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G20 to regulate big hedge funds: draft communique | Apr 02/09 |
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World leaders will pledge to regulate major hedge funds for the
first time and set up a new oversight board to monitor the global
financial system, according to a draft of the G20 communique.
The draft, obtained by Reut...Read more |
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Cleaning Up After the 'Perfect Storm' | Apr 02/09 |
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Amid all the illusions that led to today's financial catastrophes,
regulation got lost amid ideological struggles. Time to fix what's
broken.This is the first of two parts.In an interview more than two decades ago, the chairman ...Read more |
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Credit rating firms are like cancer to the financial system | Apr 02/09 |
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If the mortgage meltdown teaches us anything, it's that the work of
these agencies isn't worth the paper it's on. Yet eradicating their
influence may be the toughest regulatory challenge we face.The chilling realization that som...Read more |
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Private equity fundraising takes a hit | Apr 02/09 |
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Private equity fundraising in the first three months of
2009 dropped to its lowest level in more than five years - news that
will be a surprise to few - while the number of buyout firms scrapping
plans to raise fresh capital is...Read more |
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Pedigree, More Than Ever, Crucial to Startup Success | Apr 02/09 |
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Starting a hedge fund is a tall order in this inhospitable market. But Pav Sethi
has that something extra going for him: pedigree. As the founder of
startup Gladius Investment Group, Sethi, 36, can boast a recent stint with
...Read more |
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Mass. Regulator Charges Madoff Feeder Fund | Apr 02/09 |
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Massachusetts' top securities regulator
charged hedge fund firm Fairfield Greenwich Group with fraud for
allegedly lying to investors about confessed swindler Bernard Madoff's
phony management business.
The action on Wednesda...Read more |
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Register Advisers, Not Funds: MFA | Apr 02/09 |
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U.S. hedge funds concerned about growing
Congressional momentum to regulate their opaque $1.2 trillion industry
said Tuesday [March 31] they could live with requiring fund advisers to
register, but not with requiring the funds ...Read more |
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Hedge funds generally accept Obama oversight plan | Apr 01/09 |
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Hedge funds generally accept the Obama administration's proposal to require
managers to register with regulators, but want to ensure their information will
be kept confidential when Congress acts, the head of the industry's tr...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Managers Leave Goldman Sachs | Apr 01/09 |
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Three heads of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the firm’s
quantitative investment group, left the firm on Tuesday, announcing their
retirement.
The three men, including Ray Iwanowski and Mark Carhart, ran Goldman’s Global
A...Read more |
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Madoff, Relatives, Feeder Funds Have Assets Frozen | Apr 01/09 |
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A Connecticut judge froze the assets of
Bernard Madoff, his wife Ruth, his sons and brother Peter as well as
so-called feeder funds including Fairfield Greenwich Group, said a lawyer who
obtained the order.
A state judge ...Read more |
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Fla. Hedge Fund Manager Gets 10 Years For Ponzi Scheme | Apr 01/09 |
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A federal judge has sent yet another hedge fund Ponzi schemer up the river.
Manyu Ogale was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding investors of
more than $23 million in his Den Haag Capital hedge fund. According to
pr...Read more |
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White House sets up hedge fund to deal with toxic assets | Apr 01/09 |
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London, April 1: In a move which has left Wall Street and Capitol
Hill reeling, the US administration has announced the formation of a hedge fund
with a $500 billion mandate to oversee disposal of and investment in bank toxi...Read more |
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Q and A: Eric Sprott: First, 'fix the economy' | Apr 01/09 |
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Eric Sprott, a veteran bear, sees no reason to change his outlook
BRIAN MILNER
Globe and Mail Update
When it comes to a bearish view of the markets, veteran money
manager Eric Sprott takes a back seat to no one. So...Read more |
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Dynamic Hedge Fund May Be Placed Under Liquidator’s Protection | Mar 31/09 |
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A Cayman Islands court may decide tomorrow to put Dynamic Decisions Capital
Management Ltd.’s main hedge fund under the protection of an outside firm after
investors accused the manager of “gross mismanagement and misfeasance,...Read more |
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Hedge funds stand to gain, but also face oversight | Mar 31/09 |
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Hedge funds are being offered a sweet deal to help the Obama
administration rescue the U.S. banking system: A low-risk opportunity
to scoop up soured bank assets that could one day make them a killing.
But the deal could ma...Read more |
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HFSB says regulators aware hedge funds not a systemic risk | Mar 31/09 |
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The Hedge Fund Standards Board
(HFSB) told Reuters it expects global regulators to propose
"sensible" rules for the freewheeling industry and said
investors were starting to return to the sector.
Antonio Borges, cha...Read more |
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Industry veterans launch independent risk advisory firm Catalina Partners | Mar 31/09 |
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With growing concerns over hedge fund due diligence and
fraudulent investment schemes, two investment industry veterans have
formed Catalina Partners to focus on the business risk management needs
of both institutional investor...Read more |
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Institutional Investors Plan to Increase Hedge Fund Allocations in 2009 | Mar 31/09 |
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A study by State Street Corporation indicates that the turbulent
financial markets have not caused major shifts in institutional asset
allocations. Three quarters of institutional investors said they do not
plan to modify portf...Read more |
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Investors and hedge funds at odds over importance of fees and regulation | Mar 31/09 |
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Investors regard fees and regulation as much more
important than hedge funds do, according to a survey by IRC
Conferences/Terrapinn.
While 43 per cent of investors rated the issue of fees as "very
important" in reviv...Read more |
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Canada's Carney urges system-wide view on reform | Mar 31/09 |
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The G20 meeting in London this week should take an approach to
financial regulation reform that looks at the system as a whole and the
interaction between banks and markets, Bank of Canada Governor Mark
Carney said on Monday.
...Read more |
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Blackstone Rejects SEC Request for Fund Data as Fortress Agrees | Mar 30/09 |
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Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, rebuffed a
request from securities regulators to publicly disclose the performance of its
buyout and hedge funds while
Fortress Investment Group LLC agreed. ...Read more |
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Aust hedge funds slip into the red | Mar 30/09 |
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Australian hedge funds slipped into the red in February,
but their declines were less than that of major sharemarket indices in Australia
and the United States, new data shows.
Research group Australian Fund Monitors said th...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Fret About Proposed Rules | Mar 30/09 |
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For years, hedge fund managers in the United States have worried that their
loosely regulated and secretive industry would one day face tougher regulations.
Now that day seems to be here.
“It was inevitable that this would ha...Read more |
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$60M Pot of Goldman | Mar 30/09 |
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A pair of Goldman Sachs partners is scoring their own personal gold-plated
bailout amid a souring stock market.
Outgoing Co-President Jon Winkelried and Gregory Palm, the bank's general
counsel, are pocketing a combined $60 ...Read more |
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G-20 Targets Hedge Funds as Leaders Near Consensus | Mar 30/09 |
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Leaders of advanced and emerging economies are closing ranks behind plans
for tougher rules on financial markets to prevent another collapse like the
one that wiped out much of Wall Street.
A global approach to regulat...Read more |
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Investors in Irish hedge fund sue over fraud by Madoff | Mar 30/09 |
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INVESTORS IN Thema International, an offshore hedge fund based in
Ireland, have filed a lawsuit in New York in an effort to claw back $3
billion (€2.3 billion)they lost in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Fabian Perrone...Read more |
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Redemptions biggest challenge facing hedge fund industry, says survey | Mar 27/09 |
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The biggest challenge facing managers in the next 12
months is primarily redemptions, according to a survey of 1,000
investors by Deutsche Bank.
The survey found that although redemptions have slowed down since
2008, manager...Read more |
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Hedge Funds, Buyout Firms Say Regulation Unstoppable | Mar 27/09 |
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Hedge funds and private-equity
firms, after opposing increased federal oversight for years,
said they can’t escape the Obama administration’s plan to
include them in an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation.
“We’...Read more |
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Treasury crackdown faces challenge | Mar 27/09 |
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Congress welcomed the Treasury's proposed crackdown on the big
financial firms and free-wheeling markets that were implicated in the
global financial crisis, but some of the country's richest and most
powerful financial inter...Read more |
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Hedge funds switch to UCITS III | Mar 27/09 |
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Hedge
funds are re-inventing themselves in the wake of the threat of
increased regulation, investor redemptions and drops in performance
levels.
Daniel Broby, chief investment officer of Silk Invest,
a Lo...Read more |
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Sprott invests in Prairie farming operation | Mar 27/09 |
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Eric Sprott's hunger for most
commodities has likely wavered after last year's market collapse,
however, the legendary hedge fund manager is still placing bets on at
least a few.
Sprott Resource Group Corp., o...Read more |
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Institutions trim hedge fund allocations: State Street | Mar 27/09 |
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Turbulent financial markets have caused institutional
investors to reduce hedge fund exposure temporarily, but not
permanently, according to State Street Corp.’s fifth institutional
investor hedge fund study. The study, conduct...Read more |
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Hedge fund industry still feeling Madoff effect | Mar 27/09 |
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Bernard Madoff is behind bars, but the effects of his fraud are
still reverberating in the hedge fund industry, with more redemptions
expected and investor confidence decimated.
Traumatized investors are now more likely to cl...Read more |
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State Street Global Advisors Launches Canadian Alpha Edge | Mar 27/09 |
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State Street Global Advisors
(SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT),
today announced the launch of its new Canadian Alpha Edge strategy.
Canadian Alpha Edge
builds o...Read more |
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Sprott profit falls 26 per cent as assets tumble | Mar 27/09 |
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Sprott Inc. Thursday reported a 26-per-cent drop in fourth-quarter
profit as the investment firm suffered significant redemptions from
offshore clients, while assets tumbled in the market meltdown.
The Toronto-based investm...Read more |
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Man Group to offer fund of hedge to private investors | Mar 26/09 |
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Britain's largest listed hedge fund Man Group is to launch a new fund of hedge funds business pledging to offer transparent access to hedge funds for private investors.
The announcement comes as the group announces that its pr...Read more |
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Hedge funds ponder Obama’s carrot, fear stick | Mar 26/09 |
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Hedge funds are being offered a sweet deal to help the Obama administration rescue the U.S. banking system: A low-risk opportunity to scoop up soured bank assets that could one day make them a killing.But the deal could make for a...Read more |
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It’s an Investor’s Market as Hedge Funds Shift | Mar 26/09 |
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NOT long ago, investors lined up to write checks to hedge funds,
with visions of huge returns. But after last year’s lousy investment
performance and record levels of hedge fund closures, many are now
realizing that hedge funds...Read more |
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Pensions seen fueling hedge fund industry growth | Mar 26/09 |
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Pension funds will likely funnel more money into hedge funds and
become a powerful engine of growth for the industry in the coming
months, a hedge fund industry veteran said on Wednesday.
"We are finding that corporate p...Read more |
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Top managers' pay dropped 48% last year | Mar 26/09 |
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Top
hedge fund managers earned 48% less on average last year, but industry
chiefs James Simons, John Paulson, John Arnold and George Soros still
took home more than $1 billion each, Alpha Magazine...Read more |
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Hedge funds stand to gain, but also face oversight | Mar 26/09 |
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Hedge funds are being offered a sweet deal to help the Obama
administration rescue the U.S. banking system: A low-risk opportunity
to scoop up soured bank assets that could one day make them a killing.But the deal could make for...Read more |
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State Street HF Study Shows Institutional Investors Remain Committed to HF's | Mar 26/09 |
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Nearly Half Plan to Increase Hedge Fund Allocations in 2009Increased Focus on Accurate Valuations and Transparency RemainsParamount Boston, March 26, 2009 – State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), theworld’s leading provider of fina...Read more |
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Brosens Withdraws as Candidate for U.S. Bank-Rescue Fund Chief | Mar 25/09 |
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Frank Brosens, a hedge fund manager
who was Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s choice to run the
office overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout program,
withdrew his name from consideration.
Brosens, a foundin...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Pay May Fall 25% in 2009 as Fees Evaporate | Mar 25/09 |
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Compensation for U.S. hedge-fund
employees may drop as much as 25 percent this year as the firms
try to recoup last year’s investment losses.
The decline will cut hedge-fund paychecks to about half the
record leve...Read more |
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Top Hedge Fund Managers Do Well in a Down Year | Mar 25/09 |
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The financial crisis
may have turned much of Wall Street’s wealth into dross, but a select
group of hedge fund managers has managed to maintain a golden touch
that might make King Midas blush.
As major markets and economies c...Read more |
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Banks stone-faced on 'super regulator' move | Mar 25/09 |
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Bay Street is
mobilizing its army of lobbyists to resist moves toward a "super
regulator" that would tighten controls of the country's banks in the
wake of the financial crisis.The fresh political offensive comes
as ...Read more |
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Survey: Hedge fund cash will move back into play | Mar 25/09 |
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Hedge fund investors are sitting on nearly $300 billion in cash, 25% of
which is expected to move back into the alternative category this year,
according to the latest research from the global markets division of
Deutsche Bank ...Read more |
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For hedge funds, it’s survival of the biggest | Mar 25/09 |
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The future of hedge funds may not be as bleak as thought—as long as
a hedge fund has at least $1 billion in assets under management.Deutsche Bank’s annual Alternative Investment Survey,
released Tuesday, reveals what can only be...Read more |
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Investors still have some faith in hedge funds | Mar 25/09 |
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That, anyway, is the conclusion of a closely watched industry
survey, that was to be published Tuesday, that paints a sobering
portrait of what was once one of the highest-flying businesses on Wall
Street.
After years of explo...Read more |
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