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Galleon scandal: just the beginning?

in Sox First, on November 8, 2009

... The biggest prosecution of hedge fund insider trading went into overdrive this week with 20 people, including Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, getting hauled up on criminal charges....

Seen that? - Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak

in IfEnergy, on November 7, 2009

...ed and demand is ever growing especially [...] Read More logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund at The Hedge Funds Weblog Hedge fund investor, lo...

Eight New Insider Trading Arrests, Fourteen Total

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009

... The SEC’s ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms has brought allegations against 14 Wall Street professionals. The charged defendants include hedge ...

Fall Hedge Fund Networking Event At Nikki Midtown

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009

... Yesterday's Fall Networking Event attracted 200+ investors, hedge fund managers, and other industry professionals for a night of food, drink, music and mingling with other members of the alter...

Facebook and scammers

in Sox First, on November 6, 2009

Facebook has announced in its developer's blog that it is cracking down on scammers. It's not before time, given the publicity and uproar. We've had instances like phishing campaigns where users are robbed of their Facebook user names and passwords, we've had instances where users have...

OpenOffice.org Portable 3.1.1 简体中文版

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-04

... offers • Webs - Make a free website, get free hosting • 《华尔街疯人日记》连载87 • Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget • The First Mobile Device Dedicated Exclusively To Twitter • Grey...

Joel Klein To Receive The 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Effecting Change Award

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009

... 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ Board of Directors today announced that Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will receive its 2009 Effecting Change Award at its New York ...

Hedge Fund Expert To Launch Own Fund

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009

... CEO at QuantZ Capital Management, Milind Sharma, is in the process of launching his own hedge fund, sources say. The hedge fund manager is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million for the Qu...

Bankers expect bonus pay records

in Sox First, on November 2, 2009

...ontinues with the latest Bloomberg poll finding that almost three in five traders, analysts and fund managers believe their 2009 bonuses will either increase or won’t change. That's despite some p...

Rafa - "I Don't Have To Win A Trophy"

in The Soccer Weblog, on November 1, 2009

What a difference a week makes. After having romped to victory over bitterest rivals Man Utd at Anfield, somewhat taking the heat off “in-the-firing-line” manager Benitez, Liverpool have themselves imploded in dramatic fashion against a team in the Premier League which, it must be said, don’t do mu...

Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning

in On Storage, on November 1, 2009

...] Read More Evan Rapoport on Capital Introduction - Excerpt at The Hedge Funds Weblog Capital Introduction is a service usually provided by ...

Outsourcing and Security

in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2009

© CarbonNYC In a GlobalServices article published on October 29, 2009, IT managers were found to have some concerns regarding the security of their outsourced processes. It is unclear whether these concerns were based upon suspicion or actual discovery of security issues, or whether tho...

Cap & Trade 101

in IfEnergy, on October 28, 2009

© James Jordan The fact that you're reading this blog at all tells me that you're probably at least a little familiar with Cap & Trade. But just in case you have problems explaining it to other people, or in case you have friends who don't know about it, VentureBeat recently published...

Profits are a gift: Soros

in Sox First, on October 25, 2009

...nd so there’s a resentment which I think is justified." In other words, US taxpayers have been funding the pay increases at the banks because the US Government is too weak and gutless to take them on...

Seen that? - The weekly trend in US stocks

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 24, 2009

... The weekly trend in US stocks at The Hedge Funds Weblog The Major US index`s ( Dow 30 , SP 500 and NASDAQ 100 ) Closed in Weekly sells. They joined...

Seen that? - Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal

in China Venture News, on October 24, 2009

...at China Venture News Intel Corporation's $200 million China Technology Fund has wasted little time making an undisclosed investment in three companies. Although industry a...

Seen that? - Diabetes Challenges: Dealing With Diabetes On Valentine's Day

in Daily Diabetic, on October 21, 2009

...ends give you candy, when you don't want to [...] Read More Star-studded Diabetes Fundraiser at Daily Diabetic What: 2008 Carousel of Ho...

!0 more to be charged with insider trading

in Sox First, on October 21, 2009

... Charging Wall Street hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam with insider trading is just the beginning. Bloomberg reports that US investigators plan to charge another 10 securities professionals with...

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0

in Wangtam, on 2009-10-19

...r you like • Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough • iSteadii 2.0 - Image Stabilizing Unit • Managing your reputation through search results • Hulu Desktop Windows 7 Media Center Integration ...

BioAccelerate NYC Prize To Fund Translational Research

in The Biotech Weblog, on October 18, 2009

... City Economic Development (NYCEDC) Corporation have announced that the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) will provide up to $1.25 million for the BioAccelerate NYC Prize . The BioAccelerate...

No autographs, say auditors

in Sox First, on October 18, 2009

Earlier this year, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board came out with a proposal requiring engagement partners to personally sign corporate audit reports. The PCAOB writes: "A requirement for the engagement partner to sign the audit report could improve audit quality in two ...

Big Picture: Venture Capital, Private Equity Still Drying Up

in TJ's Weblog, on October 17, 2009

...d here , TechCrunch ) have stressed the continuing downturn in private equity and venture capital fundng. In the world of venture capital funds, only 17 funds even raise money in the third quart...

What is hedge fund third party marketing?

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 15, 2009

... Third party marketers (3pm's) are essentially hedge fund brokers. They represent various hedge fund products and introduce and sell these products to qualified investors. The Third Party Mark...

Starting A Hedge Fund - Seminar

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 15, 2009

... Starting A Hedge Fund In The Post-Madoff Era, a seminar organized by Andrew Schneider and Hedgeco Networks , 220 managers, investors and service providers came together at the U.S. Trust Build...

Hedge funds lied to investors

in Sox First, on October 15, 2009

... Hedge funds have been badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knee...

Seen that? - Ridge Crossing in the Dunes

in Under My Helmet, on October 11, 2009

...ust a hint of vanilla from the French oak in [...] Read More $1.45 Billion Blue Ridge Fund to Focus on China at China Venture News Private e...

Keep Yourself Sharp

in BootStrapMe, on October 11, 2009

© Photos8.com In any endeavor in life, keeping yourself mentally well tuned is extremely important if you want to be successful. Entrepreneur.com 's Scott Halford recently had some tips to help you keep yourself sharp. The foundational idea is simple: be a life long learner. Consider t...

Bankers' cocaine binge

in Sox First, on October 11, 2009

To what extent can the market's failure be blamed on cocaine? According to this alarming news report , there was a clear link between the heady trading during the boom and snorting. And professionals in the detox business in London say they've been flooded with calls since the financial cri...

Kudos to Kentucky: the Derby and the Concours

in Classical Drives, on October 10, 2009

...oner. Nigel concludes his report by reminding us that "the best part of the event is that it is a fund raiser for abused children, many of whom were seen enjoying the magnificent rolling art and autom...

Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009

... NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind at The Hedge Funds Weblog When you look at the numbers as a trader, you must shack your head and laugh.. We are wa...

Seen that? -

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2009

...expenses too high? Are you maximizing any employer sponsored savings plans? Do you have a rainy day fund socked away? Have you made an IRA contribution for 2004? [...] Read More You're o...

Seen that? - Saif Partners Picks China TV Home-Shopping Network as the Next Big IPO

in China Venture News, on October 6, 2009

...l firm in China in 2004, displays only confidence about the investment climate in the country. The fund's $35 million investment in Acorn International, illustrates Saif's home-run appeal to ...

Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund

in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009

... NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund at The Gambling Weblog Cuban says he will launch betting hedge fund In a plan that g...

Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest 2009

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 30, 2009

... As one of Wall Street's most popular annual events, Hedge Fund Rocktoberfes t features bands whose members work in the hedge fund and finance industry. All of the five bands scheduled to per...

Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase

in Sox First, on September 30, 2009

... First the good news! The International Monetary Fund has scaled back the global writedowns for banks and other financial institutions to a mere $3.4 trillion. So that's $600 billion less of w...

Recessions boost your health

in Sox First, on September 30, 2009

It seems that recessions and depressions are good for your health. According to this study , people were healthier during 1930-1933 when the Great Depression was laying the world to waste. In times of economic expansion, according to the study, mortality rates increased. "In contrast, th...

Unicom says to sell iPhones in China from October

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-30

...Journalists Have Opinions • Create Your Own "Extended Warranty Fund" • Walk or Bus? • Auto Shutdown • Todoist Anywhere • 10 easy ways to play with Linux without leaving Windows • ...

Who's the Next IT Acquirer?

in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 29, 2009

© kennethgray In a recent Computerworld article , AMR Research Director Phil Fersht suggests that there may be more consolidation in the IT Outsourcing market. Given that the big hardware players - IBM, Dell and HP - have already jumped into the mix, it is an open question as to who the nex...

IT 史十大辉煌时刻

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-27

美国科技网站 TechRepublic 日前评出了 IT 史上的十大辉煌时刻排行榜,其中包括 COBOL 编程语言、ARPANET 网络、Unix 操作系统诞生和微软 Windows 95 操作系统发布等等。 TechRepublic 认为,尽管 IT 发展史并不长,但仍有不少"分水岭"式的事件值得人们记住。对于 IT 发展史上各类事件的重要程度,业界专家的看法并不尽相同。尽管如此,在已上榜的 10 大事件中,不少应该能够获得绝大多数业界人士的一致赞同,即这些产品有着不同寻常的历史意义。 以下就是 TechRepublic 所评出 IT 史上十大辉煌时刻简介: 1...

The science of retweets

in Sox First, on September 24, 2009

Is there a science to getting retweets? Viral marketing scientist Dan Zarella has studied retweets and his nine rules for getting them, as reported on the Fast Company blog . 1. Whatever you do, don't use tinyurl. That's the least likely to get retweeted. Go for bit.ly, ow.ly, su.pr...

Hedge Fund Charity Event With New Jersey Nets

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 23, 2009

...attention of representatives of The New Jersey Nets, the basketball team committed to joining hedge fund, Capstone Global Markets, on October 1st to raise money for the cause. The New Jersey Nets'...

FitForCommerce - Your Key to eCommerce Success

in TJ's Weblog, on September 21, 2009

© Fosforix In an age when ecommerce is becoming a central part of all most all retail business plans, can you find the solutions you need? A huge number of companies and consultants out there today will gladly offer you ecommerce software and then pretend to have provided you with solutions...

Cyber crime pandemic

in Sox First, on September 18, 2009

We are in a cyber crime pandemic and it's getting worse with US federal authorities telling the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee this week that the crooks are now turning their attention to small businesses, a much easier hit than larger more secure corporations...

logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 16, 2009

... Hedge fund investor, logi ENERGY LLC ., has announced the formation of The Peak Oil Value Fund. Launched September 8, the new hedge fund is the first of its kind aimed at institutional and accr...

Top Venture Capital Blogs

in TJ's Weblog, on September 15, 2009

TechCrunch had a nice resource piece last week on the top venture capital blogs. Are you reading them? It's a great way to keep up with the trends and issues involved in the VC industry today. Guy Kawasaki 's blog ( How to Change the World ) is at the top of the heap at the moment with o...

World Habitat Day - Oct. 5

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 15, 2009

The United Nations has designated the first Monday each October as World Habitat Day . This year on Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C. and around the world, Habitat for Humanity is supporting this global observance, declaring that the lack of decent, affordable housing is unacceptable. According to ...

Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest WildCard Play-Off

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 15, 2009

... A Leg To Stand On is celebrating the sixth anniversary of their annual benefit, Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest . It is being held at B.B. King Blues Club in New York on Thursday, October 8. The Rockto...

$4.5 billion go into Hedge funds in Aug 2009

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 9, 2009

... Net inflows for hedge funds reached $4.5 billion in August, with over 50% of the reporting funds attracting capital during the month. Preliminary reporting from Eurekahedge finds that August ...

Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?

in Sox First, on September 7, 2009

At the end of last year, a 61 year old New York woman Phyllis Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. Now in the wake of the an SEC internal investigation report slating the agency for missing obvious tel...

Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing

in Sox First, on September 6, 2009

...og points out, there simply isn't enough venture capital out there in this economic climate to fund electric cars. No one is investing, and no one is buying. It certainly doesn't help when A...

Unemployment boosts profits

in Sox First, on September 5, 2009

...Economic Policy Institute in Washington told the New York Times . While an International Monetary Fund official told Reuters , the spike is not unexpected and is a typical lag when a country was em...

Megan Fox bio. Sex sells

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-05

...one 和 9 个 iPod • Filoogle.com - Make A Quick And Accurate Search • RollGator: Free Wall Display Aggregator • Click to Tweet | The easy way to share your stuff on Twitter • Weegoh | Social Near...

Media misleads with Cerberus Hedge Fund Three-Year Lockup Announcement

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 3, 2009

... This morning on the HedgeCo hedge fund blog , Aaron posted this interesting piece on Cerberus and the new three-year lock up policy that they instituted for their new hedge funds. The arti...

Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals

in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009

...ty to commercialize innovation paid for by their customers. In other words, they want company A to fund innovation that will benefit company A's competitors - and remove a competitive advantage th...

Be Your Spouse's Boss? Maybe...

in BootStrapMe, on September 1, 2009

Women Entrepreneurs asked an interesting question that bootstrappers should consider: should you put your spouse on your payroll? Of course, for them the issue was complicated by our society's views of male-female authority. While adding your husband to the payroll may help him get affordable...

Investor Group to Buy Skype?

in The VoIP Weblog, on August 31, 2009

© re-ality TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay . "Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreessen Horowitz , Index Ventures (who ...

The app economy

in Sox First, on August 28, 2009

How big is the Apple iPhone economy? Fast Company tells us, there are $200 million apps from App Store downloaded every month. Multiply that by 12 and the App Store is worth $2.4 billion which makes it bigger than the economy of Somalia and Eritrea. Not combined but soon it will be. App Sto...

Hedge Fund Journal’s Funds of Hedge Funds/ Newedge Release Top 50 Research

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 27, 2009

... The top 50 funds are certainly managing less, but they are not out of the game. Smaller funds, of course, are facing an even tougher time. Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research (HFR) has reported t...

Simmons Men's Jewelry

in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 26, 2009

...ed unisex jewelry in stainless steel, green rubber and diamonds - benefits the Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF), an international, non-profit organization that raises money to educate and uplift the pe...

EM Market Moves

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 25, 2009

...9, which probably isn't surprising to anyone reading this. "Some of emerging markets hedge funds were down almost 50 percent," according to Andrew Schneider, managing partner of HedgeCo ...

Will We Soon Be Paying for Content?

in Web 2.0, on August 24, 2009

...ge volume of information about every American with Internet access, and we could produce additional funding for content sources by selling that information... Things that make you go hmmm . I...

Headed for the double dip

in Sox First, on August 20, 2009

... As reported here , the International Monetary Fund says the recovery has begun. It's just that it will be slow and unpredictable. And it's gone so deep that it will affect supply and dem...

Bankruptcies soar

in Sox First, on August 14, 2009

Earlier this week, we had the Fed announcing that the US appeared to have ended its long decline, suggesting the end of the recession. But don't go talking about a recovery yet. Not with the alarming Administrative Office of the US Courts data showing there were 1.3 million bankruptcie...

Studie: Wie klimaschädlich ist Urlaub?

in Das Reise-Weblog, on 13.08.09

...glich bekannt sein. Doch wie umweltschädlich ein Urlaub sein kann, hat nun der World Wildlife Fund (WWF) vorgerechnet. So schreibt der Focus unter Berufung auf eine WWF-Studie, dass zwei Wochen auf ...

Immigration Daily Blog

in Global Mobility Report, on August 12, 2009

If you're looking for a good source of news and opinions on immigration issues in the US, Immigration Daily is a blog you may want to consider following. The blog is nine years old and has about 35,000 readers. The ILW's main website has a number of resources for people involved in...

Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?

in Sox First, on August 12, 2009

...estion: who's next? How could his wife Ruth Madoff not know about the fraud? And what about the fund managers who sent him money from investors?...

No bail for Black

in Sox First, on August 11, 2009

You have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's chance in hell of getting it, he wasn't listening. He still maintains he is innocent. Now ...

Global Recovery

in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009

Is China leading a global recovery. BusinessWeek says that many international corporations seem to think so. That theme keeps cropping up in recent conversations with CEOs and financial executives. Among the voices extolling the strength of China are Alcoa (AA) CEO Klaus Kleinfeld, Freeport-McMoRa...

Another oil shock?

in Sox First, on August 2, 2009

Are we headed for a new crisis, one that's potentially a lot worse than the credit crunch? We're talking about oil. As Scott Nyquist writes in BusinessWeek , we are looking at a second shock to the world economy as the recovery kicks in with demand expected to grow more than 2% annual...

Is Ryanair's pee fee the answer?

in Sox First, on August 2, 2009

Yesterday, I looked at how the aviation industry was nose diving, cranking up big losses from the global meltdown and swine flu. But one airline seems to be doing okay and weathering the storm. Ryanair is posting profits and continuing to attract passengers despite the recession thanks to ...