Hedge Funds

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• CNBC: Hedge Funds Take Early Lead in Warren Buffetts Big Bet

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 515
  Published: Wednesday, 25 Nov 2009 | 12:50 PM ET By: Alex Crippen Executive Producer Warren Buffett is losing his " big bet " against a collection of hedge funds, but its still early in the game. Buffett and Protégé Partners LLC of New York City started a ...
  9 hours ago

• Autonomy’s Christoffersen Returns To Goldman Sachs

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  Kasper Christoffersen’s two-year hedge fund sojourn has come to an end. read more
  10 hours ago

• Managed Futures Funds Hit The Skids In Oct.

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  While the average hedge fund has bounced back from last year’s double-digit losses with double-digit gains, managed futures funds have taken a different path. read more
  10 hours ago

• Hedge Funds Doing Their Part To Bail Out Banks

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  When the heads of the Wall Street banks sit down to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, they should be offering copious quantities of “thank you’s” to two groups: the federal government and hedge funds. Dozens of U.S. and European banks were kept afloat with billions in government bailout money. And they’re ...
  12 hours ago

• Chieftain Partners Split Over ‘Differences’

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  After 25 years together, the founders of hedge fund Chieftain Capital Management are going their separate ways. read more
  12 hours ago

• Man A Neutral Bet, Credit Suisse Says

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  With its flagship strategy continuing to struggle, the Man Group saw its outlook downgraded by Credit Suisse. read more
  12 hours ago

• Wace wades into HFT debate

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 134
  High frequency trading strategies have been in the news for all sorts of reasons recently, attracting controversy over their effect on markets, whether some other investors may be disadvantaged, or for the level of fees piled up as the trades tick through in their thousands. However, Ian Wace, co-founder of ...
  12 hours ago

• Avenue’s Lasry Attends White House State Dinner

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  There weren’t many representatives of Wall Street at President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. read more
  13 hours ago

• Samena Japan Fund Down, But Big Plans Remain

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  Samena Capital’s first foray into Japan isn’t exactly off to a fast start. But the US$300 million hedge fund firm is hardly discouraged. read more
  13 hours ago

• Calpers Investigates Hedge Fund Oversight

  
  DealBook — Authority: 774
  The California Public Employees Retirement System, the biggest U.S. pension fund with $200 billion, has launched an internal investigation into its own oversight of hedge fund deals, The Los Angeles Times reported.
  15 hours ago

• Hedge Funds Set For Rebound to Pre-Crisis Level?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 774
  Investment flows into hedge funds have turned net positive and the sector is heading toward having assets under management of around $1.75 trillion by year-end, according to Morgan Stanley.
  16 hours ago

• Hedge Funds Stock Market

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 151
  Hedge Funds Stock Market Hedge Funds Investing More in Stock Market Hedge funds invested heavily in the stock market during the third quarter of 2009.  This represents hedge funds’ biggest appetite for stock market risk in two years and may signal a broader recovery of the financial industry.  ...
  20 hours ago

• Galleon Fund Defense

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 151
  Galleon Fund Defense Galleon Fund Disputes Government’s Accusations Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Fund is disputing the government’s accusations that he participated in insider trading.  Mr. Rajaratnam’s attorneys also argued that the government misled a judge when obtaining wiretaps. Billionaire ...
  20 hours ago

• Galleon Chief Attacks Government’s Case Against Him

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group, said his hedge fund had based its investments on research and not, as the authorities claim, on inside information.
  21 hours ago

• Rajaratnam Mixes In a Little “O” with His “D”

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 728
  In his response to the SEC complaint lodged against him last month, Raj Rajaratnam defended himself, denying that that he received or traded on material, nonpublic information about Google or Hilton or other companies. But he also played offense, criticizing the governments tactics.
  1 day ago

• Lehman Administrator Implores Hedge Fund Clients To OK Asset Return Plan

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 589
  The administrator for Lehman Brothers’ London unit is once again giving hope to the bankrupt firm’s hedge fund clients. After an attempt to return some of the US$35 billion in prime brokerage assets frozen as part of Lehman’s bankruptcy proceedings in the U.K. were stymied by the British courts, ...
  1 day ago

• In Reply to S.E.C., Rajaratnam Attacks Wiretap Use

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund executive accused of masterminding a $20 million insider trading ring, responded to civil fraud charges on Tuesday, attacking investigators use of wiretaps and arguing that prosecutors omitted key facts in their original complaint.
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• John Paulson Likes Gold…More Than a Friend

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 636
  John Paulson of Paulson & Co , the legendary hedge fund manager who made tens of billions betting on the mortgage crisis between 2007 to 2009, likes gold.  He really likes it.  He likes gold more than a friend . To most market participants, this is not news, but here’s something you probably didn’t ...
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• Man Group Hit With Downgrade

  
  DealBook — Authority: 774
  Man Group, the publicly listed hedge fund giant, saw its shares take a hit Tuesday after Credit Suisse downgraded the firm to "neutral" from "outperform," on valuation grounds.
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• Is Paulson a Grump? Did It Make Him Billions?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 774
  Did John Paulsons metamorphosis from a fairly sociable individual into a grump help him transform his career from relatively lackluster to very successful?
  1 day ago

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