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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Greg Boop submits: The hue and cry from the press regarding Hedge Funds continues unabated. Obviously a good number of funds have blown up over the past year, causing a sizeable investor headache. One recent article “ 4 Reasons Why Investors Should Avoid Hedge Funds at All Costs ” outlines issues with oversight, managerial churn, investment concentration, and short...
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Hedge Fund Jobs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Hedge Fund Investment Adviser Hedge Funds & Investment Advisers While hedge funds are showing weak capital raising numbers in 2008 a recent survey came out showing that over 95.7% of financial advisers believe that hedge funds don't understand their business needs. The same survey showed that over 88.7% of these same advisers thought that sales...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Paulson & Co. is considering launching a new hedge fund that will invest in capital-hungry banks and brokers, less than a year after the firm made billions of dollars betting against subprime-mortgage securities.
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Property investments (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
IPE.com Newsquest allocates 10% to hedge funds IPE.com, UK - 6 hours ago ... the combination of Stenham and Liongate funds of hedge funds products best suited our desire to achieve superior returns in a risk-controlled manner. ... Newsquest invests £40m in fund of hedge funds Professional Pensions Inflows to hedge...
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Property investments (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paulson Eyes Sickly Hedge Funds Forbes, NY - Jul 22, 2008 The US government can't really regulate living hedge funds , but it's looking at a way to oversee dying ones. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson ... Twisted Genius Forbes all 3 news articles Tax pitfalls of second home sales - BBC News Head of private client advisory, KPMG David Kilshaw is head of private client...
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Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The elusive Swiss private bank UBP is one of the few financial institutions to have emerged unscathed from the global credit crunch. "Globes" talked to ...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HedgeFund.net has launched the HFN Multi-Factor Ranking Model to allow hedge fund investors to screen for the best relative ranked funds in the HFN
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Property investments (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hedge funds ' £1bn HBOS killing Independent, UK - 6 hours ago By Sean Farrell, Financial Editor Hedge funds may have made more than £1bn from shorting shares in HBOS, whose £4bn rights issue faced intense pressure from ... Report: Hedge Funds May Seek Buyout of Napster - Digital Media Wire MP3 Newswire Report: Hedge Funds May Seek Buyout of Napster...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Hedge fund managers are looking to global macro funds to try to steer clear of the mess created by the credit crisis, while cautiously dipping into a small pool of more risky assets, a Reuters poll found. Stormy markets have torn through the hedge fund market this year, forcing many to shut up shop and others [...]
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Royal Bank of Scotland is embroiled in a multi-million pound lawsuit after reversing a €250m ($394m) investment by ABN Amro in a London hedge fund shortly after its takeover of the Dutch bank
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group of Delphi creditors filed a suit against Appaloosa Management, alleging investors led by the hedge fund "defrauded" the bankrupt auto-parts supplier.
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CXO Advisory (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Long/short equity hedge fund investors, if they have the flexibility, may be to able capture future alpha by chasing past alpha.
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The Jacksonville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
CSX Corp. is still bickering with the activist hedge funds that claim to have won four seats on the company's board of directors.
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Hedge Fund Jobs (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
CHA Designation Chartered Hedge Fund Associate (CHA) Designation Last week the Hedge Fund Group (HFG) began to offer the Chartered Hedge Fund Associate (CHA) Designation Program . The CHA Program is a two part designation. Level 1 ensures that participants have mastered a broad foundation of hedge fund industry knowledge across 6 learning modules. Level...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
From Bloomberg: John Paulson , the money manager whose wagers against the U.S. housing market helped him earn an estimated $3.7 billion last year, is starting a hedge fund to provide capital to financial firms hurt by mortgage writedowns.... ...`` Paulson has significant knowledge of the subprime market that has created earthquakes for the banks,'' said Ron Geffner , who represents hedge...
