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Little impact of global crisis on Gulf hedge funds | Mar 12/09 |
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The Gulf has not been as badly
impacted by the turmoil as other regions around the world and regional
markets would be among the first ones to recover from the global
economic tumult, said panelists at the 10th Annual Hedge Fun...Read more |
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As Deals Get Done, a Hedge Fund Strategy Applauds | Mar 12/09 |
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Despite all the recessionary gloom and doom, deals are getting done in
the marketplace of public company mergers. That is good news for the
hedge fund strategy known as merger/risk arbitrage.
Ellen Greenspan, chief operating...Read more |
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Big Brother Bears Down | Mar 12/09 |
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Does a crackdown on one of the oldest professions spell more regulation for one of the newer ones--hedge funds?As talk swirls over how to
gain greater government oversight of banks and hedge funds, one of the
world's most ancien...Read more |
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Early data show February hedge fund flows flat | Mar 12/09 |
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Hedge funds likely held on to
most of their assets in February, with preliminary data showing
withdrawals were minimal, after investors pulled out hundreds
of billions of dollars in the preceding five months.
"Th...Read more |
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First hedge fund ETF and Russell 2000 Index fund launched on XTF | Mar 12/09 |
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Deutsche Börse has expanded its XTF segment offering for
exchange listed index funds with the admission to trading of two new
ETFs on the pan-European Xetra trading platform.
Investors now have the opportunity for the first ti...Read more |
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Hedge funds to jump at toxic asset loans | Mar 12/09 |
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Wealth managers at Citi are telling their clients to watch for a burst of hedge fund activity in bad assets.
The wealth investor says in its most recent note that the biggest
opportunity for hedge funds is probably aroun...Read more |
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Madoff Tells Judge He’s Guilty in Ponzi Scheme | Mar 12/09 |
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Bernard Madoff told a judge he pleads guilty to directing the largest Ponzi
scheme in history, defrauding thousands of clients out of billions of dollars
and becoming a symbol of investor distrust in the global recession. ...Read more |
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McMillan and Thackray Burgess Opening Calgary Office | Mar 12/09 |
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We are very pleased to announce
that the partners and shareholders of McMillan and Thackray Burgess have signed
an agreement to found the Calgary office of McMillan LLP effective May 1, 2009.
How Clients
Benefit
McMil...Read more |
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Paulson May Have Made $428 Million Shorting Lloyds | Mar 12/09 |
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Paulson & Co., the hedge fund run by
billionaire John Paulson, may have made 311 million pounds ($428
million) since September by short selling Lloyds Banking Group
Plc and HBOS Plc.
The firm took short positio...Read more |
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OSC seeks receiver for Sextant hedge fund | Mar 12/09 |
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The Ontario
Securities Commission is seeking to appoint a receiver and manager of
"all the property and assets" of Sextant Capital Management Inc. and
related entities of the hedge fund company which is the subject of...Read more |
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Hedge funds to suffer further in scramble for cash | Mar 11/09 |
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The hard-hit hedge fund industry will shrink back to 2005 levels of
around $1 trillion (728 billion pounds) this year as cash-needy
investors, rocked by the Bernard Madoff scandal and further performance losses, get a chance to ...Read more |
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Investment managers lack sufficient knowledge to manage risk optimally | Mar 11/09 |
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Current practice in the investment industry fails to
draw on widely-published and freely-available techniques in portfolio
management techniques, according to the Risk and Asset Management
Research Centre at French business sch...Read more |
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Hedge funds 'won't target financials' | Mar 11/09 |
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An independent monitor of local hedge funds has rubbished claims the
funds would target domestic financial stocks if their short selling ban
was lifted.
Australian Fund Monitors' chief
executive Chris Gosselin ho...Read more |
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Hedge funds to cut 20,000 jobs in 2009 | Mar 11/09 |
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Battered by losses and redemptions, hedge funds worldwide could
slash some 20,000 jobs this year as the outlook for investment managers
remains dim.
The Options Group, a Wall Street recruiting and compensation firm,
on...Read more |
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Economy "will put greater value on large, stable hedge funds" | Mar 11/09 |
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The uncertain economic climate will place a greater
value on larger, more stable hedge funds in 2009, according to the
hedge fund group at Global Investment House.
It says larger funds will be in a position to benefit from num...Read more |
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Pension Plans With $900B Want to Keep Investing in Alternatives | Mar 11/09 |
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U.S. pension plans that invest more than $900 billion on behalf of their members
said Tuesday that they should have freedom to invest in a full range of
opportunities, including alternative investments like hedge funds and pri...Read more |
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Hedge Shorting Success Grist For Uptick Rule | Mar 11/09 |
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Shorting the finance sector has bolstered hedge fund performance, and that in
turn has lent to the push in America for the reinstatement of the uptick rule
cited by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank today. So far in 2009, the HFN Short
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Hedge Funds Lost $11 Billion in February on Economy | Mar 11/09 |
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Investors pulled out a total of $11 billion from hedge funds in February as
stocks worldwide tumbled amid signs a global recession is deepening.
Redemptions were about a third of the value in January, after the industry
lost...Read more |
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Hedge funds move into black | Mar 10/09 |
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After the worse year on record last year, hedge funds are making a
controversial come-back by generating stellar returns on the back of falling
financial stocks.
The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index outpe...Read more |
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Madoff To Plead Guilty Thursday | Mar 10/09 |
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Bernard Madoff, accused of orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history,
is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from the alleged $50 billion
fraud later this week.
Madoff will appear in Manhattan federal court ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds May Cut 20,000 Jobs as Losses Erode Fees | Mar 10/09 |
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Hedge funds may cut 20,000 workers worldwide this year, a record 14 percent
of the industry’s jobs, as investment losses and client withdrawals erode fees.
The dismissals will come on top of the 10,000 jobs that disappeared l...Read more |
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U.S. hedge fund takes HSBC short, repeats HBOS ploy | Mar 10/09 |
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U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital is the first company to declare a short
position in HSBC (HSBA.L)
(0005.HK)
following the bank's record rights issue, after making millions from a similar
tactic with UK bank HBOS last yea...Read more |
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Australian Hedge Funds Decline 0.7% in February | Mar 10/09 |
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Australian hedge funds lost money in February, snapping two months of gains,
as a stocks slide and ban on short selling financial shares weighed on equities
funds.
The
Australian Fund Monitors Index, which tracks the perf...Read more |
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Hedge fund hotel yields up secrets | Mar 10/09 |
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It is Mayfair's house of financial horrors. Owned by the Abu Dhabi royal
family, One Curzon Street is among London's flashiest office blocks. But behind
the elegant curves, polished white stone, sweeping windows and panoramic ...Read more |
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Funds of Hedge Funds Industry Shrinks by 30% | Mar 10/09 |
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Funds of hedge
funds
industry shrinks by
30%
Says
InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club survey
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The funds of funds industry, which until June had more than $1 trillion in
assets, lost more than $...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Beat Stock Market in February, HFR Says | Mar 09/09 |
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Hedge funds outperformed stocks and bonds last month, falling an average of
0.51 percent, according to a report by
Hedge Fund Research Inc.
The decline left funds with a 0.59 percent loss in the first two months of
the ye...Read more |
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Absolute-Return Funds Promise the Holy Grail: Jane Bryant Quinn | Mar 09/09 |
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Gather round, children, to hear about the investments you’ve been waiting
for. They suggest that you might get positive returns in any economic climate,
regardless of whether stocks are going up or down.
Wait -- don’t run! I...Read more |
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Hedge funds turn to gold | Mar 09/09 |
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Hedge fund investors who made money last year by betting against investment
banks are now buying gold as a way of betting against central banks. The gold
bulls include David Einhorn, founder of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, w...Read more |
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Hedge funds come in from the cold | Mar 09/09 |
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In little over a fortnight, the Financial Services Authority will publish
proposals that hedge funds should be allowed to be sold to small investors.
This means that at least some of these funds could be marketed directly...Read more |
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From Madoff to Stanford, sleuths chase assets | Mar 09/09 |
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While accused hedge fund swindler Arthur Nadel sits in a Manhattan jail,
Burton Wiand is busy seizing control of his assets -- a 453-acre mountainside
tract of land in North Carolina, several airplane hangars and a jumble of b...Read more |
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British Hedge Fund Manager Gets Four Years For Fraud | Mar 09/09 |
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A British hedge fund manager accused of swindling investors out of £15
million was sentenced to four and half years in prison on Friday.
Marc Duchesne pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at his trial in London.
According ...Read more |
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Hedge fund makes £13m short-selling Aviva | Mar 09/09 |
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Lansdowne Partners, the hedge fund, has made almost £13m from a short
position in Aviva – and stands to make more if the beleaguered insurer announces
a rights issue.
The London-based investor has had a net short position on...Read more |
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A fund manager who protested too much | Mar 06/09 |
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An outraged Mark Bloom claimed a hedge fund stole from his investors. Prosecutors believe he did, to.When Mark Bloom was arrested last week in New York for allegedly
bilking clients of North Hills Fund, the case marked a new low ...Read more |
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36 South Plans Inflation Hedge Fund After 236% Black Swan Gain | Mar 06/09 |
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36 South Investment Managers Ltd., a New Zealand-based hedge fund firm set up
by derivatives traders, will close its Black Swan Fund after it gained 236
percent in the last 12 months and start a fund that wagers on inflation. ...Read more |
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Colorado Foundation’s Faith in Hedge Funds Unshaken Market Rout | Mar 06/09 |
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Christopher Bittman, head of the $1 billion University of Colorado
Foundation, is committing more money to hedge funds even after the industry
handed investors record losses last year.
Bittman plans to add as much as $30...Read more |
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Are hedge funds banking on insurance killing? | Mar 06/09 |
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Are life insurance companies the new banks? They seem to think so. Aviva, the
largest British insurer, was blaming bear raids by short-sellers yesterday
for the astonishing 33 per cent plunge in its share price. Investors seem...Read more |
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Hedge-Fund Destruction Is the Route to Salvation: David Reilly | Mar 06/09 |
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Like plenty of financial players,
hedge funds are taking a beating.
Many once-high-flying managers have been swamped by losses.
Others have abandoned the business after discovering it wasn’t
such an easy path to r...Read more |
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Crude May Reach $60 Should OPEC Cut, BlueGold Says | Mar 06/09 |
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Oil may rise 35 percent to $60 a
barrel should OPEC agree to cut production this month, according
to BlueGold Capital Management LLP, the London hedge fund that
returned 31 percent this year on energy trades.
The O...Read more |
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Hedge fund take a beating | Mar 06/09 |
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The crash of '08 carved almost a trillion dollars out of the global
hedge fund industry, as a report released Thursday shows the sector
lost a third of its assets in the last half of the year.
Hedge fund assets fell 33 per cent...Read more |
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Hedge fund closures up sharply in 2008, assets down more than 30% | Mar 06/09 |
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Driven almost entirely by declines in the second half of the year,
global hedge fund assets dropped more than 30% in 2008 to just over
US$1.8-trillion. While many hedge funds outperformed equity markets and
other asset classes,...Read more |
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Judge Takes Sports Car from Nadel's Hedge Fund | Mar 06/09 |
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Mark down one less toy for the boys at the hedge funds run by Arthur G. Nadel.
A federal judge has approved ending a lease for a 2008 Maserati
GranTurismo with Viking Management LLC, whose principals are Neil and
Christopher Mo...Read more |
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Hedge Funds: A Manager's View | Mar 05/09 |
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BusinessWeek reader and hedge fund manager Eric Jackson considers the pros and cons of his industry.
Not too long ago, practically every newly minted MBA wanted to be a
hedge fund manager, and investors—including many conservati...Read more |
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Bridgewater Tops List of Biggest U.S. Hedge Funds | Mar 05/09 |
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Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates
Inc. overtook JPMorgan Chase & Co. to become the biggest U.S.
hedge-fund manager, even as the firm lost assets during the
industry’s worst year, according to a survey.
Bridge...Read more |
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Hedge fund managers in portfolio are net short | Mar 05/09 |
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* Says economies in "disastrous cycle", things to get worse
* Hedge fund managers in portfolio are net short
* Says credit a "terrible thing to buy"
By Laurence Fletcher
LONDON, March...Read more |
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When Hedge Funds High-Flyers Crash | Mar 05/09 |
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Not that long ago, hedge fund managers oozed money and power,
snapping up contemporary art like chewing gum and basking in attention
from investors eager to part with their cash.
It’s a different world now. In the latest issue ...Read more |
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Institutions largest hedge fund investors: AIMA | Mar 05/09 |
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Institutions such as pension funds and university endowments now
account for more than half of the $1.4 trillion hedge fund industry's
assets, surpassing wealthy individuals, trade body AIMA said on
Wednesday.
The Alte...Read more |
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Global Hedge Fund Assets Drop More Than 30% in 2008 to $1.8 Trillion | Mar 05/09 |
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GLOBAL HEDGE FUND ASSETS DROP MORE THAN 30% IN 2008 TO $1.8 TRILLION * Sharp decline in the second half of the year* Further fall in assets anticipated for 2009* Over 300 firms globally still run $1 billion or more in hed...Read more |
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Hedge Funds: Clipped | Mar 05/09 |
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Hedge funds lost a record 21.44% in 2008 according to
the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.
“2008 hedge fund losses were widespread, with
...Read more |
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Latest Alleged Ponzi Scheme Unravels In Texas | Mar 05/09 |
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Another day, another alleged Ponzi scheme uncovered. This time, it’s
from the heart of Texas, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
accusing Ray White and his hedge fund of stealing $10.8 million from
investors.
U.S. D...Read more |
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Bernanke Says Insurer AIG Operated Like a Hedge Fund | Mar 04/09 |
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Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben S. Bernanke said American International Group Inc. operated like a hedge
fund and having to rescue the insurer made him “more angry” than any other
episode during the financial crisis.
“If the...Read more |
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