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!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 insider trading. And who knows what comes after that? All this suggests that US authorities are f...
Restauranteur Rejects Hedge Fund Area Code
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 14, 2008
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Paula Schaap, writer for HFN reports; Editor-turned-restaurant owner Graydon Carter told The New York Times that the asset class and reality TV stars won't find a welcome at his Greenwich Village restaurant the Waverly Inn.
He was quote...
Credit Crunch Takes Out 170 Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 20, 2008
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According to the Times Online , 170 hedge funds crashed during the credit crunch in the last three months.
The article said that "the number of hedge fund closures was 23 per cent higher than the same period last year, when 138 funds were ...
Hedge Fund AUM Up To $2.65 Trillion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 17, 2008
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HedgeFund Intelligence says that global hedge fund industry assets have risen to $2.65 trillion (1.34 trillion pounds) at the start of 2008.
London is the dominant hedge fund centr...
Gibraltar Hedge Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 29, 2007
In a HedgeCo story ; Gibraltar based Sirius Investment Management is launching the Sirius Investment Fund II, a natural resource and mining-focused Fund Of Hedge Funds , which will be open to new investment on 1 November.
It will invest predominantly in hedge funds that invest in very ea...
Reuters HedgeFund Solution
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 2, 2007
Reuters and BT announced the launch of the lowest latency Proximity Hosting Solution for hedge funds trading on the Singapore Exchange Limited.
More at, Reuters Hosts Solution for Hedge Fund Trading in Singapore.
Demand for trading services that are hosted within close proximity of the exchan...
Hegde Fund Article Awards
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 28, 2007
It was announced today in a press release that Lehman Brothers' research on the classification of hedge fund investment styles is one of this year's Martello Award winners for best research article in alternative investments.
Lehman Brothers' research authors Arik Ben Dor, L...
SAM Launches Asian Hedge Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 20, 2007
Sensible Asset Management today announced the coming launch of the Asia Value Formula Fund. The new hedge fund aims to provide long-term capital growth over an investment horizon of 3 to 5 years, by investing primarily in the constituents of the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index.
The aims are to outper...
Hedge Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 19, 2007
In a HedgeCo.Net story today, the MPC Samsara Team announced the launch of a new hedge fund, the MPC Samsara Fund. The hedge fund will be run by Ajay Gambhir and he will follow the same successful strategy as the jpmorgan Europe Dynamic Long Short hedge fund of which Ajay was the sole po...
Bahrain Hedge Fund Summit
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 19, 2007
The third annual Middle East summit taking place on 5-7 th November at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manama, is the first hedge fund specific event to take place in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Developed in close conjunction with event partners, Bahrain Financial Services Development (BFSD), part of the ...
Hedge Funds Down In August
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 13, 2007
...an equal weighted average of all single manager hedge funds and CTA/managed futures products in the HedgeFund.net database.
Unlike previous months when equity markets fell and hedge funds outperforme...
First Half of 2007 up at +7.86% for Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 10, 2007
...an equal weighted average of all single manager hedge funds and CTA/managed futures products in the HedgeFund.net database. The increase was the 11th positive month in a row for hedge funds. After tra...
Hedge Fund Aggregate Average Up
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 8, 2007
...funds are still outperforming as the HFN Aggregate is +5.25% while the S&P 500TR is +5.10%. The HedgeFund.net database consists of over 7,200 current hedge fund, fund of funds, and CTA products.
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HFN Launches Benchmark For Latin American Hedge Fund Investors
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 5, 2007
HedgeFund.net (HFN) has announced the launch of a new hedge fund benchmark for funds that invest in Latin America. The HFN Latin America Average launched with 80 constituent investment vehicles, including 43 that invest specifically in Brazil and another 37 that invest in broader emerging markets in...
Hedge Fund Assets Now Over Two Trillion in Assets
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 3, 2007
... in global hedge funds have now reached more than $2 trillion according to new research compiled by HedgeFund Intelligence, publisher of the newsletters and databases of EuroHedge, AsiaHedge, South Af...
Hedge funds should open their books to regulators - Sandy Weill
in Sox First, on February 16, 2007
Hedge funds should open their books to regulator says former Citigroup chief executive officer Sandy Weill. In an interview in Der Spiegel , Weill says hedge funds should report to one regulator who oversees all the other financial institutions. The reason, he says, is that the system has deep...
Connecticut Creates Hedge Fund Oversight Unit
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 10, 2006
The Connecticut Department of Banking has had enough. After watching multiple hedge funds fail, they have decided to create an oversight unit to detect fraud and other hedge fund problems.
The unit's main objective is to help prevent or detect fraud and will give the state greater ...
How To Start Your Own Hedge Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 21, 2006
Hedge funds make a lot of money - so much that you may have wondered if you could start your own. Fortune magazine has an article explaining how.
First, I needed a lawyer to create investor contracts and such, at a charge of $400 an hour, or about $30,000 a year. Other gotta-haves are an au...
NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on December 1, 2004
Cuban says he will launch betting hedge fund
In a plan that goes against Pro-US sports and the US restrictions on gambling, internet-millionaire-come-NBA team owner, Marc Cuban , claims on his blog that he's planning to launch a gambling hedge fund - which he says is no different to the st...