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Goldman's Flagship Hedge Fund Fell 5.7% in February (Update3) | Apr 04/07 |
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April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s flagship
hedge fund, managed by Mark Carhart and Raymond Iwanowski, lost
5.7 percent in February, hurt by wrong-way bets on stocks, global
bonds and currencies including t...Read more |
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EU Mutual Funds Push for Access to Hedge-Fund Indexes (Update2) | Apr 03/07 |
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April 2 (Bloomberg) -- 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.
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Hedge funds face growing start-up costs | Apr 02/07 |
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Budding hedge fund managers could be forced to
shelve plans to launch into the business because the minimum amount
needed to launch has trebled to $200m (€150m) in three years.
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Man Group, the Large British Hedge Fund, Plans to Spin Off Its Brokerage Unit | Apr 02/07 |
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LONDON, March 30 — The Man Group, the world’s largest publicly
traded hedge fund operator, said Friday that it would spin off its
brokerage division to focus on its asset management unit. The
step has been in the works for...Read more |
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Canada Throws Cold Water On German Plans | Apr 02/07 |
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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said
today he sees no need for any international hedge fund regulation, an
issue likely to be on the table when the G-7 meets later this month and
the G-8 convenes in June.
German Chancel...Read more |
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Is there a capacity constraint facing 130/30 strategies? | Mar 30/07 |
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A few years ago, the hedge fund industry was all abuzz about the
“capacity constraint” facing many hedge fund strategies. However,
while certain strategies (e.g. merger arbitrage) exploited a limited
set of opportunities, mo...Read more |
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Many wealthy not attracted to hedge funds | Mar 29/07 |
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Only 1 in 5 affluent U.S. investors understands hedge funds, suggesting the industry needs better marketing.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Only one in five affluent U.S. investors
understands hedge funds and other kinds of "alt...Read more |
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N.Y. Remains Center Of $2 Trillion Hedge Fund Industry | Mar 29/07 |
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Hedge funds topped the $2 trillion mark by the end of last year—at least according to one estimate.
The first global survey from Hedge Fund Intelligence
estimates that assets in hedge funds rose 30% last year, in spite of
the...Read more |
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Germany's Merkel pushes for G8 hedge fund talks | Mar 28/07 |
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German chancellor Angela Merkel has embarked on a push for closer ties between the biggest economies in the world, represented by the Group of Eight, and the hedge fund industry in an effort to lower the risks of an economic cri...Read more |
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FSA all-clear for retail investors to put money into hedge funds | Mar 28/07 |
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The Financial
Services Authority opened the door yesterday for private individuals to
invest in hedge funds, scrapping rules which prevent regulated UK
investment funds from investing more than 20 per cen...Read more |
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ING opens up alternatives | Mar 28/07 |
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ING’s has launched a new capital protected fund through its
OneAnswer platform that gives investors access to alternative
investments with the comfort of built-in safeguards.
Developed exclusively for ING by Société Générale As...Read more |
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Replicating hedge fund indices may weaken hedge fund justification | Mar 27/07 |
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The recent practice of replicating hedge fund
indices may dispel arguments for having a portfolio allocation to hedge
funds, according to a leading executive with Russell Investment Group’s
US operations.
“One
of the ration...Read more |
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Amaranth investors offer forgiveness for redemptions | Mar 27/07 |
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Investors in the hedge fund run by Amaranth Advisors,
which collapsed last year amid a $6.5bn (€4.9bn) loss, have proposed
dropping all potential litigation claims to speed up the payment of
remaining capital.
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Porsche Raises Volkswagen Stake, to Make Takeover Bid (Update5) | Mar 26/07 |
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March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Porsche AG boosted its stake in
Volkswagen AG to 30.9 percent and said it plans to defend Europe's
largest carmaker against possible influence from hedge funds and
buyout firms.
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Hedge funds go public | Mar 26/07 |
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The City watchdog is opening up this high-risk form of investment to a wider market. Report by David Budworth
Investors are being encouraged to follow the lead of the American investor
George Soros, who made over $1 bi...Read more |
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Full house at the hedge fund hotel | Mar 26/07 |
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The days when hedge funds were launched and run from the spare
bedroom are, by widespread agreement, over. The initial costs of
obtaining regulatory approval and employing lawyers and accountants are
burdensome enough. But the ...Read more |
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Janus: The Roman god of alpha/beta separation? | Mar 26/07 |
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Janus, the company whose logo looks like an early version of that
face transplant performed in France last year, has come out with an
intriguing offering that aims to separate alpha and beta investment
decisions. It’s called “...Read more |
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Merrill Lynch tries to replicate forex hedge fund strategies | Mar 23/07 |
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Hedge funds have something that Merrill Lynch & Co. wants.
The New York firm said Thursday that it's in the process of developing
a tool designed specifically to replicate the foreign exch...Read more |
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Former Morgan Stanley CIO launches hedge fund | Mar 23/07 |
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Morgan Stanley’s former chief investment officer started a hedge fund with his former colleagues just as pension plans' allocations to the asset class rises to new highs.
Joseph McAlinden, formerly chief investment officer of Mor...Read more |
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A Closer Look at State Street’s New Hedge Fund Survey | Mar 23/07 |
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On Wednesday, State Street released the findings from its survey of institutional investors at October’s Global Absolute Return Congress
(”Global ARC”) in Boston. The firm surveyed pensions & endowments
that they say were c...Read more |
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IndexIQ To Release 'Hedge Fund Replicator' ETFs At Fraction of Cost | Mar 23/07 |
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Matt Hougan (IndexUniverse) submits: The
latest rage in the financial services industry is to create “hedge fund
replicators”: computer-driven tools that combine assets in a way that
mimics hedge fund returns at a fraction of t...Read more |
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KPMG Forms Alternative Investment Group | Mar 23/07 |
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KPMG has consolidated its hedge fund, real
estate and infrastructure businesses into one unit dubbed the
alternative investment group, including staff from KPMG's corporate
finance, tax, transaction services, audit and advisory...Read more |
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Institutions More Comfortable With Hedge Funds | Mar 22/07 |
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Institutional investors are increasingly at
ease with hedge funds. According to a new survey from State Street
Corp., more than half of respondents say their boards are more
comfortable with hedge funds today than they were a y...Read more |
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Hedge fund bets bigger on Nortel | Mar 22/07 |
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Nortel Networks' biggest single shareholder, Brandes Investment
Partners, a hedge fund based in San Diego, California, increased its
ownership to 46.8 million shares last year — or 10.8 per cent of all
stock.Brandes has been th...Read more |
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Pinnacle Unveils Investor Database Aimed At Emerging Managers | Mar 22/07 |
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One of the biggest challenges for new hedge
fund managers and commodity trading advisors is finding investors.
Sensing this need for a cap intro product, consulting firm Pinnacle
Alternative Investments has put together an inve...Read more |
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Hedge fund directors on guard | Mar 21/07 |
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Offshore
directors of hedge funds are becoming more active defenders of
investors' rights as regulators pay more attention to the burgeoning
sector, according to the authors of a new set of industry guidelines.Olwyn
Alexander,...Read more |
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US funds propose transparency solutions | Mar 21/07 |
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The perception of hedge funds as high-risk
investments continues to play on the minds of US politicians, who
discussed pension investments in the asset class during US
congressional hearings last week.
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Further Transparency for Hedge Funds | Mar 21/07 |
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London 20th March 2007. The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the leading global hedge fund and alternative investment industry association has issued a new Guide to Sound Practices for Hedge Fund Valuation. T...Read more |
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Calpers eyes raising investment to hedge funds-CIO | Mar 20/07 |
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WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The California Public
Employees Retirement System, already a large investor in hedge
funds, will likely raise its allocation to these loosely
regulated portfolios in the next three years, a top...Read more |
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Yen exchange rate and hedge funds | Mar 20/07 |
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The yen and hedge funds are at centre stage, but what will happen if China diversifies into holding the yen.
In an earlier article,
I had referred to the large bets of hedge funds in the “carry trade”,
estimated at around...Read more |
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Improve your understanding of hedge funds | Mar 20/07 |
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Q: I'd like to learn more about hedge funds - how are they structured?
A The notoriety of the hedge fund has increased markedly during the past five years.
Once the reserved domain of extremely wealthy individuals and
financial...Read more |
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Investing: Hedge funds: market angels or demons? | Mar 20/07 |
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LOS ANGELES: Are hedge funds really the disruptive, destabilizing force their critics make them out to be?
Or do these free-wheeling partnerships of wealthy and institutional
investors actually reduce volatility and help make t...Read more |
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The “Gatekeeper” Approach to Hedge Fund Oversight | Mar 20/07 |
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The “Gatekeeper” Approach to Hedge Fund Oversight
Monitoring “Gatekeepers” Can Enhance Investor Protection and Reduce Systemic Risk
March
19, 2007 – New York, NY – Hennessee Group LLC, an adviser to hedge f...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Assets Swelled 24% in 2006 | Mar 20/07 |
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Hedge fund assets rose 24% to $1.89 trillion
in 2006, driven by new allocations and performance gains, a report
showed on Monday. Hedge
funds promise to deliver positive returns in all markets for a higher
fee compared with mu...Read more |
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Hedge fund returns look unimpressive in new study | Mar 20/07 |
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University of Texas finance professor John Griffin and Jin Xu (who
works at Roger Ibbotson's Zebra Capital Management) have some bad news
for proponents of hedge funds in their new paper How Smart Are the Smart Guys? (tip o' the...Read more |
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Hedge fund law eyed in New York state | Mar 20/07 |
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Public pension plans in New York state would be allowed to invest in
hedge funds and hedge funds of funds under the terms of a bill
introduced in the state Assembly. The bill would require some level of
transparency from any he...Read more |
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Market Fall Makes Fund of Hedge Fund Managers More Optimistic | Mar 20/07 |
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The return of market volatility has made fund of hedge
fund managers more optimistic about producing better-than-average
returns over the next two quarters, according to Reuters. In its quarterly survey of the group, which repre...Read more |
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Hedge funds with $35 bln shut down in 2006 | Mar 20/07 |
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Amaranth, Archeus, Sagamore funds were biggest, survey finds
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FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. hedge funds that once managed $35
billion shut down last year as more big firms ran into trouble,
according to a survey released ...Read more |
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Hedge-fund envy | Mar 19/07 |
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Mutual funds borrow a few ideas from hedge funds
MUTUAL funds are the familiar, unexciting face of stockmarket capitalism, the financial product of choice for millions of investors. But a growing number of mutual-fund managers,...Read more |
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Credit Turbulence Puts Hedge Funds on the Spot | Mar 17/07 |
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March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Are hedge funds really the
disruptive, destabilizing force their critics make them out to
be?
Or do these free-wheeling partnerships of wealthy and
institutional investors actu...Read more |
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Subprime Defaults to Soar, Hurt Lenders, Funds Say (Update1) | Mar 16/07 |
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March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Harbinger Capital Partners and
Paulson & Co., hedge-fund managers who profited when subprime-
mortgage defaults surged, told investors that delinquent loans
will soar and more lenders will disa...Read more |
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Hedge Funds, the Usual Suspects, Blamed for Volatility in Asia | Mar 16/07 |
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The recent volatility and pullback in Asian markets have prompted
some investors to sound a familiar refrain: It’s all the fault of the
hedge funds. In the last two years, dozens of these funds
have set up shop in Asia ho...Read more |
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Wall St Trade Groups See Big Harm From Hedge-Fund Disclosure | Mar 16/07 |
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Two trade associations that count among its members Wall Street's
biggest financial-services firms asked a judge Thursday to reconsider
an order forcing hedge funds to disclose trading activity, saying it
would do "serious...Read more |
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IOSCO Offers 9 Principles For Hedge Fund Valuation | Mar 16/07 |
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The International Organization of Securities Commission has issued for a comment a report that offers nine principles for proper valuation of hedge funds – only days before the Alternative Investment Management Association
is set...Read more |
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For Now Hedge Funds Not Deemed Homeland Security Issue | Mar 15/07 |
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WASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)—The Senate declined
to take up Sen. Charles Grassley's effort to attach a mandate for the
registration of hedge funds to a homeland security bill last week, but
his office said he'll continue his eff...Read more |
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Schneeweis: Monthly hedge fund data might be leading us astray | Mar 15/07 |
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Thomas Schneeweis is an academic. So he views the primary benefits of managed accounts not as operational, but as analytical.
He argues that daily and weekly return data (usually only available via
a managed account) is superior...Read more |
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AIMA to Respond to IOSCO Consultation Report | Mar 15/07 |
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London 14th March 2007. The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA),
the leading global hedge fund and alternative investment industry
association today announced that it will respond to new IOSCO valuation
proposa...Read more |
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Funds of funds hold their own | Mar 14/07 |
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Managers’ returns compare favourably with those of their directly invested rivals
Private equity funds of funds can deliver comparable returns to buyout or venture funds. A report by Private Equity Intelligence suggests top-qua...Read more |
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IOSCO releases principles for the valuation of hedge fund portfolios | Mar 14/07 |
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Regulators seek comment
The International Organization of Securities Commissions
has released for comment a paper that proposes principles for the
valuation of hedge fund portfolios. The principles describe
techniques which a...Read more |
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February 2007 Performance Review of Dow Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks | Mar 13/07 |
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Five of the six hedge fund strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes posted net-of-fees gains in February 2007.With
net-of-fees returns of 3.71%, merger arbitrage was once again the best
performing strategy in February ...Read more |
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