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Institutional investors spur hedge funds to | May 22/12 |
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Institutional investors spur hedge funds to grow operational infrastructure and increase transparency, says AIMA/KPMG Survey
The post-2008 influx of institutional money into hedge funds has
resulted in a marked increase in the ...Read more |
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Ackman Sends Wake-Up Call to Sleepy Canada Boardrooms | May 18/12 |
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William
Ackman’s triumph at
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) may echo across boardrooms far from the
railroad’s Calgary headquarters.
In a Canadian corporate culture long resistant to activist shareholders, the
U.S. h...Read more |
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Hedge Fund Stars Gundlach and Einhorn Have a Sixth Sense --They See Dead Countries | May 18/12 |
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At the Ira Sohn conference
Wednesday, rock star investors gave their best picks to a well-dressed group
of 2000 attendees from hedge funds and mutual funds around the world. At
the 17th Annual Conference, where procee...Read more |
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AIMA Canada Publishes new AIMA Canada Handbook | May 18/12 |
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106-page Handbook Profiles Canada's $30 Billion
Hedge Fund Industry
AIMA
Canada, the
Canada National Group of the Alternative Investment Management
Association, the global hedge fund industry association, today re...Read more |
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No big insights at "best ideas" hedge-fund event | May 17/12 |
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A highly anticipated hedge-fund conference on Wednesday where managers are
invited to share their "best ideas" with investors fell flat on that score.
Bill Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, ca...Read more |
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Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index down 0.04% in April | May 17/12 |
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The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 0.04%
for the month of April.
Four of the broad index’s 10 sub-strategies recorded positive returns - Fixed
Income Arbitrage (0.69%), Multi-Startegy (0.58%), Managed ...Read more |
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Inside secretive hedge funds | May 17/12 |
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CNBC takes a look at Appaloosa Management’s portfolio and discussing whether to invest in technology with Carol Pepper, Pepper International chief executive, and Phil Silverman, managing partner of Kingsview Capital.
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Soros’s Firm Buys JPMorgan, Suntrust in First Quarter | May 16/12 |
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Billionaire George Soros’s investment firm added to financial stocks in the
first quarter, including shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and
Suntrust Banks Inc. (STI) He sold the company’s stake in
Google Inc. (GOOG)
The ...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Up Over $11 Billion in April | May 16/12 |
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Total inflows amounted to $28.13 billion while client redemptions added to
$17.72 billion. The MSCI World Index dropped 1.62% on the back of rising
eurozone sovereign yields, weak US economic data and slow Chinese growth.
Key...Read more |
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Buy bullion, not gold stocks: top hedge fund manager | May 15/12 |
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Albert Friedberg is one of Canada’s top hedge fund managers. He keeps a low
profile, but every quarter, he hosts a conference call for clients where he
outlines his investment ideas.
His current call: We’re facing the p...Read more |
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Hedge fund investors keen to commit funds | May 15/12 |
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Hedge fund investors are keen to commit to the asset class, with
more than half making two or more investments on average per year, a Preqin
study reveals.
Just under one-third make between two and three new investments per ...Read more |
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Analysing sovereign risk for portfolio management decisions | May 15/12 |
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London, 12-13 June, 2012 – A seminar providing an overview of the
historical background and the recent trends of sovereign risks, as well as an
analysis of sovereign risk in bond portfolios, and discussing both the
assessmen...Read more |
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Bonfire of the hedge fund oil longs | May 15/12 |
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John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
Bullish investors finally abandoned hope for a recovery in oil prices, at
least in the short term, in the week ending May 8, slashing their long positions
...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Are Shadow Banks in Need of Regulation, Bafin Says | May 14/12 |
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Hedge funds act as shadow banks and should be added to the list of
organizations in need of regulation, according to Raimund Roeseler, head of
banking supervision at
Germany’s
financial regulator Bafin.
Shadow-banking def...Read more |
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Fund Managers Missing Rally Dump Bearish Bets Most Since ’08 | May 14/12 |
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As individuals bail out of U.S. stocks at the fastest rate in three decades,
professional speculators have
cut bearish bets by the most since 2008.
Money managers are net short 19,375 contracts on the Standard & Poor’s ...Read more |
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Alternative strategies resilient in April | May 14/12 |
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The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was almost flat in April with a
performance of -0.02% (+1.52% in 2012), showing resilience despite disappointing
economic news flow.
Eight Lyxor Strategic Indices out of 14 ended the month in posit...Read more |
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Credit Suisse's Asset Management Division launches Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Fund | May 14/12 |
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Credit Suisse's Asset Management Division has launched the Credit
Suisse Liquid Alternative Fund, which seeks to offer access to hedge fund-like
returns, with the flexibility of daily liquidity, increased transparency and
10...Read more |
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Investors inject more cash into hedge funds | May 11/12 |
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Investors grappling with volatile financial markets upped their bets on hedge
funds over the past month, data from hedge fund administrator GlobeOp shows,
indicating renewed confidence in their abilities to cash in on turbul...Read more |
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GlobeOp launches monthly Hedge Fund Performance Index | May 11/12 |
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GlobeOp Financial Services is launching an independent,
asset-weighted hedge fund performance index on 15 May, 2012. The latest in a
series of monthly GlobeOp hedge fund indices, it is transparent, consistent in
underlying f...Read more |
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Hedge funds take in USD2.3bn in March | May 11/12 |
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The hedge fund industry added USD2.3 billion (0.1% of assets) in
March, down from a USD6.8 billion inflow in February and only the fourth monthly
inflow since July 2011.
Based on data from 3,034 funds, the March TrimTabs/Bar...Read more |
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Top absolute fund of funds performance | May 11/12 |
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Here’s a list of the top 10 best performing funds of hedge funds, based on
absolute returns, for the year-to-date as of March 31 as tracked by Dow
Jones Credit Suisse. Other charts showing trailing 12-month, 3-year and
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eVestment|HFN Industry Release: April 2012 | May 10/12 |
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Hedge Fund AUM Fell in April 2012, Performance was Negative amid Mixed Flows
Hedge funds performance was mixed in April, but average returns were
negative, -0.29% after one of the best first quarters on record. Funds
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Hedge funds declined 0.38% in April | May 10/12 |
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The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index declined 0.38% in April (+4.02%
YTD), while the S&P 500 fell 0.75% (+11.16% YTD), the Dow
Jones Industrial Average increased 0.01% (+8.16% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite
Index declined 1.46...Read more |
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Investors Hedge Against Losses as Europe Fears Resurface | May 10/12 |
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The resurgence of the euro zone's debt woes as a
dominant force in the U.S. equity market has sparked a flurry of cautious bets
in the options market as investors brace for more uncertainty.
The S&P 500 may have lost only...Read more |
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Hedge funds as “guardian angels” | May 10/12 |
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Think hedge funds
are the kiss of death for companies filing for bankruptcy? Not so according to
researchers from the Sauder School of Business at UBC, which shows that hedge
funds actually have a positive influence when the...Read more |
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Telus withdraws share conversion proposal | May 09/12 |
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Telus Corp, Canada's No.2
telecommunications provider, said it is withdrawing its proposal to convert its
non-voting shares to common shares, following a run-in with dissident
shareholder Mason Capital.
Telus earlier as...Read more |
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Hedge funds trade in narrow range in April | May 09/12 |
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Hedge funds posted a narrow decline to begin Q2 2012, with the
HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index declining by 0.36 per cent in April,
according to data released today by HFR (Hedge Fund Research, Inc).
The April decline foll...Read more |
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Man Group Hires New Risk Head for Troubled Fund | May 09/12 |
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Man Group has replaced the head of risk at its embattled flagship
AHL fund as pressure mounts on chief executive
Peter Clarke to stop the rot in the British company's shares, now
trading at the lowest level in more tha...Read more |
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The Hedge Fund And Private Equity Stock Train Wreck | May 08/12 |
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When some of America’s biggest hedge fund and private equity firms started to
sell ownership through initial public offerings a few years ago, many investors
rushed to buy the stocks. The hedge fund and private equity industri...Read more |
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Transparency Runn Amok | May 08/12 |
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Form PF herds private funds into data hellIf the private fund
industry hadn't gotten the message before, the new SEC
reporting requirement - Form PF - should do the trick. For
hedge
funds and
private equity fu...Read more |
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Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index down 0.33% in April | May 08/12 |
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The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index closed down
0.33% in April as most of the index component strategies reported negative
results for April.
Event driven and long/short equity were the worst performing sub stra...Read more |
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After Strong Start to Year, Hedge Funds Fall in April | May 08/12 |
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Hedge funds lost some ground in April, after the
industry stormed into 2012 with the best first-quarter of performance since
2006.
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index fell 0.36 percent last month,
according to data relea...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Long Money in Commodities Up After 4 Weeks | May 08/12 |
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Hedge funds and other money managers made more positive
wagers on commodities than negative bets for the first time in five weeks, the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission reported Friday [May 4], as softening U.S.
data rais...Read more |
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Ontario Teachers to Back Ackman in CP Rail Vote | May 08/12 |
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Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, a large Canadian Pacific Railway shareholder,
will vote for
William Ackman's slate of directors instead of the incumbent board,
strengthening the activist investor's hand ahead of next week...Read more |
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Eze Castle Integration Opens Hong Kong Office to Further Expand Availability of its ... | May 08/12 |
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Eze Castle Integration Opens Hong Kong Office to Further Expand Availability of its Premier Hedge Fund IT Services in Asia
Eze Castle Integration,
Inc., a leading provider of strategic IT services, technology sol...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Bet Wrong Before Biggest Slump Since October | May 07/12 |
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Hedge
funds raised bets on higher commodity prices for the first time in six
weeks, just before the biggest three-day slump since October as U.S. jobs data
fell short of expectations and European manufacturing contracted.
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Hedge Funds Fell 1% in April as Global Markets Decline | May 07/12 |
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Hedge funds
fell 1 percent in April, tracking stocks worldwide, as renewed concern that the
European sovereign-debt crisis would worsen and global economic growth would
stall halted an equity-market rally earlier in the year...Read more |
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Funds Made Big Hike in Bullish Oil Bets Before Rout | May 07/12 |
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Hedge funds and big speculators boosted their bullish
bets on U.S. crude oil price by the most since October in the week to May 1,
just before the steepest fall in crude this year, regulatory data showed on
Friday [May 4].
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Regulator hands out “parking ticket” | May 07/12 |
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On January 26, 2011, a FINRA
hearing panel found that Hedge Fund Capital Partners LLC and Howard G. Jahre,
its president and majority owner, violated numerous FINRA rules and
provisions of the Securities Exchange Ac...Read more |
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Hedge Funds Up 0.12% In April | May 04/12 |
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Hedge funds were up slightly in April, with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index
reporting a gain of 0.12%.The positive performance was due, in part, to
the showings of macro and relative value strategies and came as equity
...Read more |
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The End is Nigh for Smaller Funds of Hedge Funds | May 04/12 |
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For some time there have been questions raised about the sustainability of
the business models of funds of hedge funds as a category. There is no doubt
that they will continue to exist and that there will be winners as...Read more |
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BCSC won’t intervene in dispute between Telus and hedge | May 04/12 |
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Securities regulator says Mason Capital Management disclosures comply with
requirements
By Canadian Press | May 03, 2012 10:45
Source: The Canadian Press
The British Columbia Securities Commission says it won't look in...Read more |
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A Call To Cut Hefty Hedge Fund Fees | May 03/12 |
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Here’s more evidence of a fundamental shift in the hedge fund industry: an
influential pension consultant wants to see a big shake up in the way hedge
funds charge investors.
Towers Watson, one of the world’s largest institut...Read more |
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The Coming Hedge-Fund Merger Wave | May 03/12 |
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Hedge-fund marketing leads to mergers and consolidation: That’s the short
version of
the argument voiced this week by Larry Tabb, founder and
chief executive of the Tabb Group. And smaller hedge funds, the
ones some voice...Read more |
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Now unhappy investors turn the heat on struggling Man Group | May 02/12 |
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The struggling hedge fund giant Man Group became the
latest blue chip to face an investor revolt over pay yesterday, as fresh
evidence of the firm's stumbling performance sent its shares tumbling again.
Its chief execu...Read more |
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Struggling Hedge Fund Under a Cloud | May 02/12 |
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The Man Group, a London institution known for its computer-driven trading
and famed literary prize, has taken a pounding in the eyes of investors and
clients, raising questions about whether the $59 billion firm could be ...Read more |
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Best Way To Restore Risk? | May 02/12 |
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What is the best way to add risk back to portfolios?, asks Johanna
Kyrklund, head of multi-asset investments at Schroders, in a May Day
message. She then very helpfully answers her own question.“With
events in E...Read more |
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Man Group Has $1 Billion Outflows; Shares Slide on Cash Concern | May 01/12 |
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Man Group Plc (EMG), the world’s biggest publicly traded hedge fund manager,
said clients withdrew a net $1 billion in the first quarter and costs such as
employee bonuses ate up more cash than analysts expected.
The
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Regulatory Focus on Hedge Funds Continues | May 01/12 |
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The regulatory focus on hedge funds continued during the first quarter of
2012, as new iniatives continued to roll out, and milestones in the
implementation of rules put on the books last year were hit.For “large”
hedg...Read more |
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Exchange clearing of OTC derivatives likely to reduce counterparty risks for hedge funds | May 01/12 |
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The move to more standardised OTC derivatives
as products go to exchange clearing could reduce counterparty risk but may
also hit hedge fund strategies reliant on customised vehicles.
Many issues are still outstanding ...Read more |
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