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• Hedge funds, take heart!

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 132
  Many commentators have written the obituary of the hedge fund industry, or of some of its more esoteric or leverage-dependent strategies, during the credit crisis. So it may be of some encouragement to see a new launch by Invesco Perpetual , announced today. It’s not a hedge fund, but instead a split-capital ...
  3 hours ago

• John Henry slashes 8 from Hedge Fund staff

  
  Hedge Fund News From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 512
  New York (HedgeCo.net) – John Henry, perhaps best known as principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has announced the firings of roughly one quarter of the staff at his Boca Raton , FL based investment company, John W. Henry & Co. According to the Boston Globe, the layoffs included a cross-section of workers ...
  5 hours ago

• Eclectica Fund: Hugh Hendrys November Commentary

  
  market folly — Authority: 610
  Today weve got Hugh Hendrys latest market commentary through his Eclectica Fund November investor letter. We often feel its pertinent to examine both sides of the argument in any given situation. Not to mention, there are always two sides to a trade. One of the main arguments engulfing financial markets has been ...
  6 hours ago

• Super-Rich buying Gold, Commodities, Reducing Hedge Fund Exposure

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 437
  Steve Lodge, FT.com, reports that the super-rich are opting for gold and commodities, and cash, and reducing hedge funds exposure. The investment preferences of the world’s wealthiest families have shifted significantly in favour of gold and other commodities and away from hedge funds in the wake of the financial ...
  7 hours ago

• John Paulson’s Hedge fund made 20 billion from disaster. 8 tips how you can do that next time.

  
  Investment Moats - Stock Market Investing — Authority: 417
  Greg Zuckerman of the WSJ has written a book on how hedge fund manager John Paulson made $20 billion in the housing collapse (”The Greatest Trade Ever”). It can be thought out as 8 great tips: Don’t follow the crowd. When everyone else is buying something (housing, mortgage-backed securities), start ...
  9 hours ago

• Copenhagen deal to help boost climate fund flows

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - Agreement in Copenhagen next month on a new pact to fight climate change will encourage long-term investors to move into firms better placed to cope with a likely and eventual rise in the cost of carbon emissions.
  11 hours ago

• FSA to get powers to curb banker bonuses

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - City regulators are to be given new powers to stop bankers receiving bonuses that "would cause instability" to the financial system, Chancellor Alistair Darling said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.
  12 hours ago

• PensionsFirst in U-turn as products fail to sell

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - PensionsFirst, founded by former Morgan Stanley European Vice Chairwoman Amelia Fawcett, has made a strategic retreat after failing to sell any of its investment products.
  12 hours ago

• Shorts could profit in choppy 2010

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - UK stock markets are unlikely to repeat a stellar 2009 performance next year, Octopus fund manager David Crawford said, making short-selling a likely winning strategy for investors again.
  12 hours ago

• Institutional investors grow to appreciate wine

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - Funds specialising in niche assets such as art and wine, long the preserve of ultra-rich hobbyists, are seeing a spike in interest from more mainstream investors seeking an antidote to the complexity of hedge funds.
  12 hours ago

• ‘The Temp Life’ Returns, Stocked Up on Web Series Stars

  
  Tubefilter News — Authority: 606
  Not since the Streamy Awards have we seen this many web series stars in one place. Ok not really, but with the fourth season of The Temp Life , the Spherion-backed comedy about life inside a dreadful NY temp agency kicking off today, the cast is loaded up with notable web series stars. The casting moves are signs ...
  14 hours ago

• UK urged to ready veto on EU bank supervision plan

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  LONDON (Reuters) - A sweeping European Union reform of financial supervision could turn into a muddle which Britain should veto unless there are tougher national safeguards, a parliamentary report said on Monday.
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• Asian leaders blame Fed for asset bubbles not poor official data

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 480
  Asia Pacific leaders have expressed mounting concerns about a bubble in stock markets and local property being inflated by the dollar carry-trade financed by ultra-low US interest rates. They see this as a repeat of the 2003-4 Fed policy error that resulted in the US housing boom and bust. The danger is that the ...
  16 hours ago

• Private equity to review its problems in Dubai

  
  ArabianMoney.Net — Authority: 480
  Next week delegates for the annual Private Equity World conference run by Terrapinn will gather again in Dubai with top regional practitioners leading the line-up of speakers for an interesting event.But these are troubled times for firms with their borrowing capacity constrained, and business valuations sharply down ...
  17 hours ago

• Hedge Funds and Insider Trading after Galleon

  
  Hedge Fund Law Blog — Authority: 124
  By Bart Mallon, Esq. (www.mallonpc.com) High Profile Case Highlights Issues for Hedge Fund Managers to Consider Insider trading is now an operational issue for hedge fund managers.  The high profile insider trading case involving RR and the Galleon hedge fund has put the spotlight directly on hedge funds again ...
  20 hours ago

• The NAV, the whole NAV and nothing but the NAV…

  
  AllAboutAlpha.com — Authority: 422
  Gone are the days where calculating NAV was a guesstimate and where an administrators role was the rubber stamp it. Say hello to the new era of daily NAV calculations, third-party verifications and accountable administrators. Related posts: Alternative Viewpoints: The Ascendancy of Risk Management In Hedge ...
  20 hours ago

• Insider Trading Overview

  
  Hedge Fund Law Blog — Authority: 124
  In light of the recent focus on insider trading, we are publishing the SEC’s discussion on Insider Trading which can also be found here .  The information below contains a broad overview of some of the important aspects which hedge fund managers should understand about the insider trading prohibitions. For a ...
  23 hours ago

• More PR moves by top banks

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  The banking industry, at the big bank level anyway, has gotten religious when it comes to PR. Goldman Sachs and Citi group seem to have embarked on new campaigns with mixed results. Most of the lobbying campaigns are conducted out of public view. But every now and then we get an op-ed piece. The latest comes from ...
  1 day ago

• John Paulson bets on Citi

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  John Paulson, the man in the hedge fund industry the past few years, has made a big wager on Citigroup. According to a recent filing, he bought about 300 million shares for about $1.5 billion. At the same time, he dumped his $328 million stake in Goldman Sachs, and also sold off a portion of the $2.2 billion stake he ...
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• Bloomberg, still taking over the world

  
  OSHedge Blog — Authority: 154
  There was a day when the battle to colonize the desktop on Wall Street and beyond riveted many, when the players went beyond big names like Dow Jones and Reuters to upstarts like EJV (remember them?) and Bloomberg. The latter has, of course, come out on top in many ways. Theres still a lot of desktop competition, but ...
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