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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Risk Moment RES (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
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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vedha | 01/01/2008
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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vedha | 01/01/2008
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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vedha | 01/01/2008
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...
