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The European Assault on Hedge Funds | Apr 25/07 |
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If hedge funds want to avoid
heavy-handed European regulation, they must tell Europeans what they do
and why they deserve to operate with freedom.
In
a speech to NYU Law School on April 11, Federal Rese...Read more |
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Hedge funds lead European leveraged lending | Apr 25/07 |
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American hedge funds and other non-bank
credit investment groups now hold just over 50 per cent of all lending
to risky European companies - pushing banks into a minority role in
this sector for the first time.This marks a dram...Read more |
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Suddenly, Hedge Fund Fees Seem High | Apr 25/07 |
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After the average hedge
fund failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 in 2006, big investors like
CalPERS are starting to complain about fees
The
top-performing hedge funds and private equity firms have generated an...Read more |
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Wealthy say no better at finding top hedge funds | Apr 25/07 |
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BOSTON (Reuters) -
Wealthy investors say they are no better than anyone else at finding the
world's best hedge funds, loosely regulated portfolios that can enrich the
people who run them and those who invest in them.
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More Disclosure Coming Soon for Hedge Funds | Apr 24/07 |
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Given all the attention that hedge funds have received lately it should
be no surprise that some action is about to be taken. A report crafted
recently by central bankers and finance ministers from seven leading
industrial nati...Read more |
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U.S. approach to hedge funds falls short, Germany says | Apr 24/07 |
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BERLIN: Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück of Germany
said that the U.S. policy of providing guidelines to hedge funds was
"not enough" as he sought European support to subject the funds to a
code of conduct.
Germany ...Read more |
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Danish hedge fund manager: Pension fund investments harm hedge fund return potential | Apr 24/07 |
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Several Danish pension funds have started to invest in hedge
funds. But the large amounts which the funds wish to invest are most
often much too big, and ultimately, they may harm hedge fund returns.
This is the opinion of Casp...Read more |
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`It's Good to Be King' for Blackstone, Fortress | Apr 24/07 |
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April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Decked out as Louis XVI in the
comedy ``History of the World: Part I,'' Mel Brooks advised us
``It's good to be king.'' The shameless monarch didn't know the
half of it: they hadn't invented hedge ...Read more |
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Hedge fund heyday – bigger is better | Apr 24/07 |
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How computers read the markets | Apr 23/07 |
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Machines crunch news and numbers to place bets. But the info must be in their language.
To most humans, the following text makes little sense: "Symbol ticker =
'MAN' country = 'US' cusip = '56418H...Read more |
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Law closes in on hedge funds | Apr 22/07 |
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The US industry is courting politicians with donations to ward off stricter regulation, writes Dominic Rushe from New York
RUDY GIULIANI has Paul Singer, founder of Elliott Partners. Hillary Clinton
has Lisa Perry, wif...Read more |
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They can’t all be masters | Apr 22/07 |
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These days the bigger the hedge fund, the better“THE New Masters of the Universe” was the cover splash chosen by Portfolio,
a business magazine that launched last week, to highlight a feature
about hedge funds by Tom Wolfe. Th...Read more |
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Germany Pushes Hedge-Fund Code, Challenges U.S. Plan (Update1) | Apr 21/07 |
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April 21 (Bloomberg) -- German Finance Minister Peer
Steinbrueck said the U.S. policy of providing guidelines to hedge
funds is ``not enough'' as he sought European support for them to
be subjected to a code of conduct. ...Read more |
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Getting Out of Hedge Funds | Apr 21/07 |
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WHEN it comes to hedge funds, do the extremely rich know more than the rest of us? While
institutions are increasing their holdings in hedge funds — and some of
the largest hedge funds are planning to sell shares to an eage...Read more |
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NBCN presents its new off-shore managed account platform offering for investment managers | Apr 20/07 |
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Montreal, April 19, 2007 – NBCN Prime Brokerage Services, a
specialized alternative investment administration service from National Bank Financial,
and Innocap Investment Management Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nationa...Read more |
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Big Hedge Funds Get Bigger, Leaving Less for Small Rivals | Apr 20/07 |
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The largest and best-known hedge funds are elbowing out their smaller and newer rivals for the cash pouring into the business.
The change is making it harder for smaller funds to attract
deep-pocketed investors and is reducing ...Read more |
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Aussie funds eye new strategies | Apr 20/07 |
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Cash-rich Australian mutual funds are exploring a
broader range of strategies, and hedge funds are eyeing overseas
markets, driving growth in the country's increasingly competitive prime
brokerage market.Australia's mandatory...Read more |
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Beware Of Hedge Funds Bearing Small Caps | Apr 20/07 |
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The attraction of small caps to hedge funds may be cause for worry, according Reuters. "If the stock market plummets and [hedge funds] want to get out, [investors] could get hosed," Tabb Group senior analyst Adam Sussman...Read more |
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Diversification Top Hedge Fund Goal | Apr 20/07 |
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More than four out of 10 institutional investors say
diversification is their primary reason for putting money in hedge
funds, according to a survey by SEI Investments Co. The Oaks,
Pa.-based firm found 43% sought to spread exp...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Face Call to Detail Risks, Draft Report Shows | Apr 20/07 |
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April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds will be urged to
disclose more information about their strategies and the risks
they involve, according to a report commissioned by central
bankers and finance ministers from the Group ...Read more |
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Hedge funds, banks need risk standards: Fed official | Apr 19/07 |
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NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said
on Wednesday that hedge funds, their lenders, and investors have
"considerable work" to do to adopt consistent standards for managing
ri...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Raised $60 Billion Last Quarter, a Record (Update4) | Apr 19/07 |
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April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds globally attracted
$60 billion in new money in the first quarter, almost half what
they raised all of last year, as institutions shrugged off the
industry's subpar investment gains. ...Read more |
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CSX Says TCI Fund May Buy $500 Million of Its Stock (Update5) | Apr 18/07 |
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April 18 (Bloomberg) -- CSX Corp., the third-largest U.S.
railroad, said U.K. hedge fund TCI Fund Management LLP holds a
``significant'' stake in the company and filed to buy more than
$500 million of its stock. The share...Read more |
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One-Two Punch May Knock Out Hedge Fund Threat | Apr 17/07 |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan for promoting closer trans-Atlantic trade ties has gotten Rep. Barney Frank
to thinking of a possible way to defang hedge fund’s threat to take
their business elsewhere if the regulatory go...Read more |
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G7 looks at global code of conduct for hedge funds | Apr 17/07 |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Group of Seven leaders, increasingly wary of the
growing financial clout of hedge funds, will probably push for a global code of
conduct for the industry, Germany's
central bank president said on Sund...Read more |
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Zurich's tax lure for hedge funds | Apr 17/07 |
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Switzerland
is mulling over plans for a special 10pc tax rate for hedge fund managers in a
radical move to lure the booming industry away from London.
Hans-Rudolf Merz, the finance minister, has held a series of meetings
...Read more |
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London sees rise in hedge funds | Apr 17/07 |
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London has doubled its share of global
hedge fund assets over the past four years, according to the findings
of a survey by International Financial Services London.The
industry association report says that between 2002 and 2006...Read more |
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Moody's to rate hedge fund debt | Apr 17/07 |
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Moody's, the ratings agency, has
developed a methodology for rating the unsecured debt of hedge funds in
preparation for a predicted rush to the public debt markets by
alternative investment firms.The move comes after Citadel
...Read more |
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Big funds' tastes fuel Wall St hedge fund buys | Apr 13/07 |
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Institutional investors' preferences to work
with the big investment banks they have long known is one reason Wall
Street titans are snapping up the loosely regulated portfolios, a hedge
fund manager said.
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AIMA Launches New Due Diligence Questionnaires | Apr 13/07 |
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The Alternative Investment
Management Association (AIMA), a global hedge fund and alternative
investment industry association has produced a new set of illustrative
due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) for use by those investing...Read more |
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Regulation – Hedge fund hawks fight back | Apr 13/07 |
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In March it appeared that hedge funds and private equity firms were
going to escape tight regulations and that both sides of the Atlantic
would go with looser, principles-based regulatory regimes for this
professional market, (...Read more |
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Hedge fund valuations ‘problematic’ say investors | Apr 13/07 |
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Nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of institutional investors say that
accurately valuing their hedge fund holdings is problematic, according
to a new report issued by State Street.
Of those who expressed concerns about the pr...Read more |
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G7 to discuss hedge fund risk report | Apr 13/07 |
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WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - G7 officials say a draft version of a
report on potential risks posed by hedge funds will be discussed at a gathering
of rich industrial countries in Washington this week.
Finance official...Read more |
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Hedge funds worry emerging market regulators | Apr 13/07 |
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At
the 32nd annual meeting of the International Organization of Securities
Commissions in Mumbai, one constant theme is hedge funds regulations.
Emerging market regulators are worried that hedge funds may once again
exit sudde...Read more |
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RBC Hedge 250 Index posts 0.87% return in March | Apr 13/07 |
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RBC Capital Markets reports that its hedge fund index, the RBC Hedge 250 Index, had a net return of 0.87% in March. This
gain brings the year-to-date return of the Index to 2.86%. These
returns are estimated and will be finalize...Read more |
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New Products and Strategies Shake Up Traditional Asset Allocations | Apr 12/07 |
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US pension funds and endowments
continue to shift assets out of domestic stock investments and into
hedge funds, private equity and international equities, according to
new research from Greenwich Associates. Private equity
in...Read more |
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Morgan Stanley on the hunt for hedge fund acquisitions | Apr 12/07 |
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Morgan Stanley
is to continue to pursue acquisitions of alternative asset managers
building on five hedge fund investments in the same number of months.
David Sidwell,
chief financial officer of Morgan Stanl...Read more |
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Exchange-Traded Equity Derivatives Set to Skyrocket as Absolute-Return Strategies | Apr 11/07 |
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The world of investment
management is changing with absolute-return strategies, portable alpha, hedge
funds and yield enhancement an integral part of the everyday life of traditional
portfolio management. According to TABB G...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Advance +1.01% in March | Apr 11/07 |
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Hennessee Group LLC, an adviser to hedge fund
investors, yesterday announced that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced
+1.01% in March (+3.34% YTD), while the S&P 500 rose +1.00% (+0.19% YTD),
the Dow Jones Industrial...Read more |
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Hedge funds to meet G7 on openness | Apr 11/07 |
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It is not clear who is on the guest list, but representatives of leading hedge funds are to meet
deputy finance ministers from the G7 countries on the margins of this
weekend’s spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, to discu...Read more |
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Hedge funds may see regulation revived: investor | Apr 11/07 |
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just as hedge funds think they have escaped the
tightening of loose current regulation, one large investor expects them to face
fresh regulatory pressure after the Bush administration leaves office.
&qu...Read more |
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Paladyne forms alliance with Microsoft to service hedge funds | Apr 11/07 |
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Paladyne Systems, LLC has formed an alliance with Microsoft Corp. to service the hedge fund industry with the Paladyne product line powered by the Microsoft software development platform.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Pa...Read more |
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Sextant’s Exotic Metals Hedge Fund Continues Winning Streak | Apr 09/07 |
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Sextant Capital’s Sextant Strategic Opportunities Hedge Fund is
continuing its strong performance, with the portfolio manager crediting
the fund’s returns to plays in the molybdenum market.
The exotic metals fund, which returne...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Up Almost 1% In March | Apr 09/07 |
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Hedge funds went back to their trailing-the-broader-markets way in
March, but that will be cold comfort to anyone whose investments track
the Standard & Poor’s 500.
The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index rose 0.98% in March...Read more |
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Illinois Enters Hedge Funds Through Side Doors | Apr 08/07 |
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The $39 billion Teacher’s Retirement System of
Illinois is making its first foray into the hedge fund space via
multi-strategy funds of funds, and anticipates approving one or more
finalists during its meetings in May, accordin...Read more |
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Bundesbank hails hedge funds as 'blessing' for financial markets | Apr 08/07 |
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Frankfurt - Hedge funds, highly speculative investment funds that
are currently under fire for their aggressive investment practices, are
a "blessing" and a stabilising factor on the world's financial markets,
Bundesb...Read more |
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EU mutual funds seek to emulate hedge funds | Apr 08/07 |
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BRUSSELS: European mutual funds may be able to give
ordinary investors a taste of hedge fund returns, if their managers
convince regulators to let them buy derivatives of hedge fund indexes.
Indexes linked to hedge funds' pe...Read more |
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Equity L/S, Distressed Securities Pace Dow Benchmarks In March | Apr 08/07 |
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All six hedge fund strategies tracked by the
Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks posted positive returns in
March, but most trailed the broader markets, which rebounded from late
February’s correction.
Equity long/short w...Read more |
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Navigating the Hedge Fund Maze in a Leveraged World | Apr 08/07 |
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I WAS there when Long-Term Capital Management blew up, and I was
there when Amaranth blew up. And I can tell you this: Amaranth turned
out to be no Long-Term Capital Management.”
Those words, from Jeffrey L.
Matthews, a g...Read more |
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What Institutions Really Want From Hedge Funds and Funds of Funds | Apr 08/07 |
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Institutional assets have been flowing
into the hedge fund community for the past several years, having vast
repercussions for all participants. The general expectation is that
these flows will continue and increase.
Looking...Read more |
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