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Hedge Funds Reach Record High Of $1.2 Trillion | Aug 22/12 |
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Hedge funds in North America are at an all-time peak and assets under
management are at the historically high level of $1.2 trillion, according to the
August edition of The Eurekahedge Report.
Asia-based North America investi...Read more |
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KPMG Continues to Expand and Strength Its Alternative Investment Funds Practice with... | Aug 22/12 |
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KPMG Continues to Expand and Strength Its Alternative Investme...Read more |
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Hedge fund exit requests rise in August | Aug 21/12 |
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Client demands to pull money out of hedge funds rose to their second-highest
level this year in August, industry data showed, in a sign some investors may be
reassessing these freewheeling portfolios after their performance ...Read more |
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Soros holds 7.85 pct of Manchester Utd Class A shares | Aug 21/12 |
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Hedge fund titan George Soros reported a 7.85 percent passive stake in
Manchester United PLC Class A shares as of Aug. 9, according to a filing with
the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
Soros's eponymous ...Read more |
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How to Start a Hedge Fund | Aug 21/12 |
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Starting a hedge fund is much different from launching
other kinds of companies. Most significantly, there is almost no chance that you
will be able to start this business out of a garage. No -- to get a hedge fund
up and ru...Read more |
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Nominations: 2012 Canadian Hedge Fund Awards | Aug 21/12 |
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Canadian hedge funds are due to submit their data to be considered for the
Fifth Annual Canadian Hedge Fund Awards, sponsored by KPMG.
The winners will be announced on 30 October, but the judges will be meeting
in September t...Read more |
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New Hedge Funds Abound, Despite Tepid Industry Performance | Aug 20/12 |
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It’s been a rough couple of years to be a hedge fund. Weak performance,
enhanced regulation and an aggressive crackdown on insider trading have cast
a harsh spotlight on the industry.Not that you’d know it by looking at
...Read more |
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Hedge fund replication strategies increase in popularity | Aug 20/12 |
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Replication strategies have gained in popularity as investors
increasingly are looking to capture the benefits of hedge fund investing while
avoiding their associated high fees, opacity of process and holdings, and low
level...Read more |
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How to name your hedge fund | Aug 20/12 |
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Having trouble
coming up with your company or fund name?
If you’re looking for some suggestions, why not try out the
hedge fund name
generator (yes, it’s a real tool). It spits out random three-word
combinations, which end...Read more |
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Hedge funds bet on oil spike as Israel attack fears grow | Aug 17/12 |
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Hedge funds are quietly laying new bets on a potential spike in oil prices
tied to the possibility of an Israeli attack on
Iran, skewing the options market to a bullish bias for the first time in six
months.
Signs that...Read more |
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Since when does a huge hedge fund need subsidies? | Aug 17/12 |
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Since when does a huge hedge fund need subsidies? Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater
Associates, the biggest in the world with $130 billion under management, may get
up to $115 million in help from the U.S. state of Connecticut to buil...Read more |
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Gold rises on hope for U.S. easing, hedge fund bullish | Aug 16/12 |
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Gold rebounded on Wednesday from two straight losing sessions, as muted U.S.
consumer inflation raised hopes for monetary stimulus and a prominent hedge fund
manager's increased appetite for bullion brightened market sentime...Read more |
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Currencies in Your Future Portfolio? | Aug 16/12 |
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Since the economic decline in 2008, there has been a growing demand of
individual and institutional investors to consider various choices of
non-correlated investments to reduce tail risk (downside deviation)(i) and
correlat...Read more |
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Hedge funds cut back on energy, buy agriculture in 2nd quarter | Aug 15/12 |
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Philippe Laffont's Coatue
Management was bullish on Chipotle's burritos and tacos in the second quarter,
while activist hedge fund Jana Partners LLC soured on energy stocks as the firm
dumped shares in Marathon Petroleum a...Read more |
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Soros Reveals Stake In Facebook | Aug 15/12 |
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Hedge fund Soros Funds has filed his quarter
13-F report with the SEC.
According to the report, Soros completely dumped his stakes in
Citigroup (420,000 shares),
JP Morgan (701,400 shares) and
Goldman Sachs (120,000 ...Read more |
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Escape the hedges | Aug 15/12 |
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Investors have figured out another way to dump their hedge funds: sell their
partnership interests on the secondary market.
Even such big names as SAC Capital Advisors and Elliott Management are on the
block as investors cla...Read more |
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Hedge funds profit from Facebook, oil in July | Aug 14/12 |
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Trading oil, the euro and shares in Facebook (FB.O)
were among the bets to help drive gains for hedge funds in July, meaning the
industry has largely shrugged off the euro zone debt crisis to make money every
month so far ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Have $74 Billion as Europe Fire Sale Delayed | Aug 14/12 |
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Hedge funds
and private-equity firms have amassed an unprecedented 60 billion euros ($74
billion) to invest in distressed debt in anticipation that Europe’s
sovereign-debt crisis will push banks into the biggest fire sale in...Read more |
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Hedge fund flows advance 1.36% in August, says SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index | Aug 14/12 |
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Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement
Index advanced 1.36% in August.
"Net inflows resumed in August taking the cumulative Index to a new high
despite the continued uncertainty in European...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Reduce Wagers After Longest-Ever Rally: Commodities | Aug 13/12 |
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Hedge
funds trimmed bets on a commodity rally for the first time in nine weeks as
signs of U.S. growth and speculation that central banks will do more to
stimulate economies drove prices to a three-month high.
Money manage...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Capitulate on European Shorts | Aug 13/12 |
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Hedge funds that base investment decisions on economic trends are unwinding
bets against
European stocks (SXXP) at the fastest pace in three years, speculating
policy makers will step up the fight against the debt crisis.
...Read more |
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Drought drives investors back to grain funds after long exodus | Aug 10/12 |
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Investors who had fled agricultural commodity funds for more than a year
rushed back in droves last month as the worst U.S. drought in more than half a
century caused prices to surge, data from fund tracker Lipper showed on ...Read more |
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Hedge funds redeem USD4.9bn in June 2012 | Aug 10/12 |
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The hedge fund industry redeemed USD4.9bn (0.3 per cent of
assets) in June, compared with inflows of USD1.1bn in May, according to
BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research.
The hedge fund industry redeemed USD4.9bn (0.3 ...Read more |
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CI Financial Q2 Profit Drops as Markets Sour | Aug 10/12 |
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CI Financial Corp. said on Thursday [Aug. 9] that its profit fell in
the second quarter, despite efforts to cut costs, as gloomy global markets and
net redemptions sideswiped assets under management.
Canada's No. 3 invest...Read more |
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Macro hedge funds lead broad-based July gains | Aug 09/12 |
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Hedge funds posted gains for the second consecutive month in July
as Macro CTA managers captured strong trending dynamics across multiple asset
classes, pushing the HFRI Macro: Systematic Diversified Index to a gain of 2.8
p...Read more |
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Fund funds’ funk | Aug 09/12 |
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Fed-up investors yanked $8B+ in JuneInvestors are sick and tired of paying fees for little in return, and in no
place is that more evident than in the fund-of-funds industry.
In June, investors pulled $8.7 billion from such fir...Read more |
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S&P 500 bests hedge funds for second consecutive month-HFR | Aug 08/12 |
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Hedge funds on average gained 1.05
percent in July, trailing the benchmark S&P 500 Index for the second straight
month, according to data from research firm Hedge Fund Research Inc.
Hedge funds in the $2.1 trillion in...Read more |
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The Long And The Short Of It | Aug 08/12 |
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by Gilles Sitbon,
fund Manager of Sycomore L/S Opportunities, and Olivier Mollé,fund
manager of Sycomore L/S Market NeutralWhat place do equity
long/short strategies have in an investment portfolio? The current marke...Read more |
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Some smaller hedge funds outshine their bigger rivals | Aug 07/12 |
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A number of hedge fund industry spin-outs are showing up their bigger and
better-known brethren by delivering eye-popping returns in a year marked mainly
by lackluster performance.
After a horrible 2011, this year is not ...Read more |
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The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index closed up 1.02% in July | Aug 07/12 |
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The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index closed up 1.02%
in July as six of the seven index component strategies reported positive results
for July.
The top perfuming strategy was managed futures (3.26%) while Fixed i...Read more |
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Six out of seven IndexIQ hedge fund indices positive in July | Aug 07/12 |
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IndexIQ, a developer of index-based
alternative investment solutions, has reported positive performance for six out
of seven of its proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative
beta indices.
The IQ Hedge Glo...Read more |
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Macro hedge funds take investors' fancy | Aug 03/12 |
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Asian institutional investors plan to increase allocations to global macro,
relative-value credit and fixed-income arbitrage hedge funds, but hold a dimmer
view on EM-related strategies, a survey finds.
Globally, 63% of insti...Read more |
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Earnings surprises, price reaction and value | Aug 03/12 |
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The earnings season is upon us and each company’s earnings announcement is
eagerly awaited, traded upon and talked about. For widely followed companies
like Apple, the obsession with what the next earnings report will deliver ...Read more |
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Energy super-cycle begins to slow as US chokes on crude | Aug 02/12 |
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Looking at the smaller picture, Brent Crude had a lot of macro
risk priced in coming into 2012. Expectations of Middle East unrest – in
particular Iran – and a liquidity event coming out of the US saw prices reach
USD123/bbl...Read more |
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RIM eyes further reductions | Aug 02/12 |
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Research In Motion
may shutter its few company-owned North American retail stores and slash 3,000
jobs under a previously announced restructuring plan by the BlackBerry maker.
A source familiar with RIM’s retail presence said...Read more |
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Fund managers believe AIFMD will lead to less competitive market | Aug 01/12 |
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Fund managers believe the European Commission’s Alternative
Investment Fund Managers Directive will lead to fewer non-EU fund managers
operating in Europe resulting in a less competitive market, according to
research from De...Read more |
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Big banks act tough with hedge fund clients | Jul 31/12 |
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Major banks face growing pressure to extract more money from, or even sever
ties with, unprofitable hedge fund clients as they cut costs in the face of
tough trading conditions and try to refocus on the biggest managers.
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Average investors poised to bite into hedge funds: survey | Jul 31/12 |
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The rich may not be so different after all.
After decades of investing in exclusive hedge funds, America's super rich are
getting company as alternative investments are joining the investment management
mainstream, a repo...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Ads: What's to Crow About? | Jul 31/12 |
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In just a few weeks, the SEC is supposed to
issue new rules which will trigger the start of
hedge fund advertising under the JOBS Act. In addition to wondering what
those rules will be, industry professionals are also curi...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Add Wagers in Longest Streak Since 2009: Commodities | Jul 30/12 |
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Hedge
funds raised commodity bets in the longest bullish streak in three years as
speculation that policy makers will increase economic stimulus drove prices
toward the biggest monthly rally since October.
Money managers r...Read more |
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Investors demand hedge funds show clean hands on Libor | Jul 27/12 |
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Investors are pushing some of the world's biggest hedge funds to show that
their traders played no part in the interest rate rigging scandal plaguing major
banks.
These hedge funds have responded with in-depth internal pr...Read more |
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German govt wants to limit hedge funds to professionals | Jul 26/12 |
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to limit direct investment
in hedge funds to professionals in order to protect private investors from risky
assets, via a new bill regulating alternative investment funds, his...Read more |
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Israel belatedly joins the global hedge fund boom | Jul 26/12 |
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The number of funds has more than doubled to 60 in the last five years
and their assets have quadrupledTo join the mystery-shrouded world of hedge funds you need money -
oodles of it. Only the filthy rich can afford to fro...Read more |
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Allocation to event driven managers increases to 11.45 per cent, says Altin | Jul 26/12 |
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After a period of “risk on” in the first quarter of 2012, the
second quarter proved to be the complete opposite, says Altin, the Swiss
alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges.
The futur...Read more |
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Comment is free We need a 'bloodhound' hedge fund to sniff out financial skulduggery | Jul 25/12 |
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Forget the banking inquiry, let's assemble a crack team of activists and ex-traders to profit from exposing top-level scandals
The recent spate of banking scandals has shown how small cracks in seemingly
impenetrable corporat...Read more |
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Man reports FUM of USD52.7bn | Jul 25/12 |
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Funds under management at Man Group totalled USD52.7bn at 30 June
2012, down from USD58.4bn at 31 December 2011.
The figure reflects sales of USD7.2bn, redemptions of USD9.6bn, investment
movement of -USD0.3bn, FX translation...Read more |
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Meet the Futures Industry: A Breakdown of Terminology, Roles and Responsibilities | Jul 25/12 |
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These days, the futures
industry has been in the spotlight in a way we've never seen. Granted, we can
think of better reasons to pay attention to our corner of the world, but the
enhanced attention to our space has highlight...Read more |
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"Black box" fund may not be enough to revive Man | Jul 24/12 |
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A recent uptick in the performance of its flagship AHL fund may not be enough
of a cure for hedge fund manager Man Group after a sharp fall in assets,
analysts said.
The firm, whose shares have lost more than three quarte...Read more |
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Telus counters ‘misleading allegations’ from Globalive, dissident shareholder | Jul 24/12 |
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Telus Corp. has rebuffed claims it’s offside with Canada’s foreign-ownership
laws, filing documents with regulators on Monday denying what the wireless
carrier calls “misleading allegations” made by competitor Wind Mobile and ...Read more |
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Top Tech Picks From a Hedge Fund Guru | Jul 23/12 |
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After reporting
second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, technology bellwhether
Intel
cut its revenue forecast for 2012 amid slowing PC sales and a
wavering global economy. Despite weak demand in the PC industry the tech sect...Read more |
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