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A Look at Q1 Hedge Fund Holdings

Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: Below we highlight the cumulative sector weights of hedge funds based on their first quarter 13Fs (from Bloomberg ). As shown in the table below, Financials make up the biggest portion of hedge fund portfolios, just as they do in the S&P 500. Energy ranks second, Technology third, and Industrials fourth. In the first chart below,...

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Hedge Funds: Jana Partners wins big as CBS buys CNet for 45% premium

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) --- Jana Partners LLC, an activist hedge fund firm run by Barry Rosenstein, generated big gains after CBS Corp. agreed to buy Internet news provider CNet Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion in cash on Thursday.

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ALPS Fund Services acquires hedge fund administrator

ALPS Fund Services Inc. has acquired the assets of Price Meadows Inc., a hedge fund administrator with more than $6 billion in assets under administration, ALPS said Thursday.

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Hedge Fund Employment

Hedge Fund Employment Hedge Funds Employment Articles The following are the articles I have written related to hedge fund employment. Roughly 20% of all the emails I receive is related to hedge fund career advice, recruiting or marketing/sales team building. This category of articles will hopefully answer some of those common questions and provide a more concise...

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Hedge Fund Performance

Hedge Fund Performance Hedge Fund Performance Reports This article category of reports was created to provide quick links to what I have written related to hedge fund performance issues and updates. I will be updating this each quarter to try to make it as comprehensive as possible. I hope to improve this area of content within my blog over the next few quarters....

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Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Is Up 0.57% in April

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index was up 0.57% in April, according to Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index Co., Inc.

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Blackstone Launches Asia-Focused Hedge Fund

Blackstone Launches Asia-Focused Hedge Fund Business May 14, 2008, 7:30 am The Blackstone Group, manager of the world's biggest leveraged buyout fund, said it had launched an Asian-focused hedge fund business to seek opportunities created by corporate events including mergers and bankruptcies. And to lead the effort, the firm named a former executive of hedge fund...

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City keeps keen eye on hedge suit

BROCKTON - The city's Retirement Board is monitoring a lawsuit filed against an Asian hedge fund that went under, hoping it can recoup some of its own money invested in the fund.

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Hedge fund ending its run

Money manager Jerry Paul will put down his lance and close Quixote Capital Management, the latest in a string of Denver hedge funds to cease tilting at windmills.

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Hedge Funds: Paulson & Co. hedge fund to back Icahn's Yahoo slate

Paulson & Co., a $33 billion hedge fund firm run by John Paulson, says it will support Carl Icahn's proxy fight with Yahoo Inc., bringing another billionaire activist investor into the technology takeover standoff.

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Paulson Hedge Fund to Back Icahn

The Paulson hedge fund said it has purchased 50 million shares of Yahoo and intends to support Icahn's slate of dissident directors.

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Paulson hedge fund firm backs Icahn's Yahoo slate

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Paulson & Co., a $33 billion hedge fund firm run by John Paulson, said on Thursday that it will support Carl Icahn's proxy fight with Yahoo Inc. . The firm revealed in a filing on Thursday that it owns 50 million shares of the Internet company. Paulson said it was "disappointed" that Yahoo failed to reach an agreement to be acquired by software giant Microsoft...

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Hedge-Fund Mogul Paulson Joins Icahn In Yahoo Siege; 30% of Proxy Vote In Bag

Carl Icahn owns 59 million Yahoo shares (YHOO), or 4% of the company. John Paulson, head of merger-arb shop Paulson & Co., who made a reported $3 billion personally shorting sub-prime last year, owns 50 million shares, Reuters says . So that's about 8% of Yahoo between them. Icahn is cleared to buy another 4%, which would make 12%. No question how those shares will vote in a proxy fight. Then there's...

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Hedge Funds: Activist firm Third Point discloses stakes in Microsoft, Yahoo

Third Point LLC discloses stakes in Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., adding another activist investment firm to the technology takeover standoff.

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Ah, Everyone Had a Commodity Hedge Fund That Year

There is impressive growth underway in the number and assets of commodity hedge funds worldwide. Check the following graph of the number of such funds extant. Doing the math, the above works out to roughly a 50% compound growth rate in the number of commodity funds per year. For those of you as fond as I am of recreational extrapolation, that means everyone on the planet...

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Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing

Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing - vedha

Focusing on the wide range of hedge fund strategy choices and their associated challenges and risks, this title presents a wealth of new research to guide you past the potential pitfalls and develop your risk assessment skills. Summary Presents cutting-edge research on hedge funds with broad coverage of investing, risk management and portfolio allocation and in-depth analysis on a variety of topics...

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Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers

Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers - vedha

Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers explores the ever-changing and dynamic hedge fund-prime broker relationship through the use of a panel comprising of some of the world's experts in investment, law and regulation. Summary You will discover: The changing relationship between prime brokers and hedge funds, the relationship they have with hedge fund service providers (such as administrators, risk managers,...

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An Introduction to Hedge Funds

An Introduction to Hedge Funds - vedha

This new introductory text, clearly explains what a hedge fund is, how it interacts with service providers, how it operates and – particularly appropriate to today's markets – what happens when things go wrong. Summary Hedge funds are one of the most dynamic, and important, players in the financial services industry and command worldwide attention. This primer, authored by a leading financial services...