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John Paulson Doubles Bet on Cadbury
AIG | November 11th 2009
John Paulson, the hedge fund manager whose wagers against the United States housing market earned him billions last year, has doubled down on his bet on Cadbury. read more
The key to this “rally” is funny-money printed by the America…
Investment-blog.net: Emerging Markets - Stock Tips - Discuss… | November 10th 2009 by Jan Paul
They have printed, or will print, up to $1.75 trillion new dollars, which will be conjured out of thin air. Of this amount of newly printed cash, most was injected into the economy in the form of mortgages, in a vain attempt to raise housing prices t read more
Hedge Fund Performance, 1H 2009
ForexHunter. Trader's Diary | November 8th 2009
Credit Suisse research on the performance of various trading strategies in 1H 2009. Link here. read more
How to Gauge a Hedge Fund: A Guide for Investment Planning
OnHub | November 8th 2009 by Steven Kim
In approaching the task of investment planning, a lot of investors get the impression that a hedge fund will outperform the benchmarks of the marketplace as well as other types of investment funds. Sadly, though, the usual outcome turns out to be exa read more
Hedge Funds
Prajna Capital | November 8th 2009 by Prajna Capital
This article explains how hedge funds use different strategies to mitigate risk Hedging means managing risk. A fund manager employs a particular hedging technique in order to mitigate a particular type of risk.For example, a market risk can be hed read more
Hedge funds move from offshore centres
Caribbean Blog International | November 8th 2009 by Dennis Dames
By Martin de Sa'Pinto: GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Luxembourg could draw hedge funds in their droves as European investors retreat from offshore vehicles and seek to rein in liquidity and counterparty risk in the post-Madoff, post-Lehman environ read more
2x Gold Exposure Without Leverage?
Amongst The Stars | November 7th 2009 by Josh
Today was the first Rotman stock pitch competition where the second year students gave the first years a chance to practice their skills in valuing and pitching companies. It was an interesting experience for all of us and there were many lessons lea read more
Calling Gordon Gekko
Square Feet Blog ...a Commercial Real Estate Blog | November 7th 2009 by J Alili
Definitely time for Gordon Gekko to do a sequel. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price of a paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of a hat while everybody sits around wondering how the hell we did it. Now you’r read more
Wall Street’s Naked Swindle
Institutional Financial Derivatives | November 6th 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Matt Taibbi – On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the venerable investme read more
Citi Said to Eye Relaunch of Hedge Fund Unit
AIG | November 6th 2009
Citigroup is preparing to relaunch its hedge fund business operations, after months of debate on the unit's future, The Financial Times reported. read more
New Book: ‘No One Would Listen: A Real Financial Thriller’
Institutional Financial Derivatives | November 5th 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Amazon – Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billio read more
How Bernie Did It
Institutional Financial Derivatives | November 5th 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Securities Industry News – Two years ago, Bob McMahon wondered why antiquated systems at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Services weren’t replaced with more modern and efficient off-the-shelf systems. The Madoff systems were expensive to m read more
CDO Trading Returns
Institutional Financial Derivatives | November 5th 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Bloomberg – Babson Capital Management LLC and GoldenTree Asset Management LP are among investors bargain- hunting in the $650 billion market for collateralized debt obligations linked to corporate debt as credit markets open. An estimated $11 b read more
The Calculus of Duration
Amongst The Stars | November 5th 2009 by Josh
We have been discussing bonds and spot rates in finance as a fairly "simple" investment vehicle (no default risk for government bonds and steady and predictable cash flows).While I had technically learned the math behind bond duration, it was after t read more
Did We Learn Anything? Carry Trade Edition
EconomPic Data | November 5th 2009 by Jake
In theory, it does look like hedge funds are BACK, though it is a bit concerning that EVERY strategy (except those neutral or short equity beta) has been a winner. Back to this in a moment...While many hedge funds make claims that they don't have any read more
Hedge Fund Investment Adviser Insurance
Hedge Fund Law Blog | November 5th 2009 by Bart Mallon
E&O or D&O Insurance For Registered Investment Advisers Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk with an insurance broker whose business focuses on providing insurance to registered investment advisers and hedge fund managers. This article i read more
Paulson Defies Bulls, Makes $10 Million a Day on Wager
Institutional Financial Derivatives | November 4th 2009 by Douglas Kelso
Bloomberg – Smarts, good timing and a touch of the renegade. That’s what it took to pull off the investment coup that Gregory Zuckerman brings to life in “The Greatest Trade Ever.” The trade was John Paulson’s bet against the U.S. housi read more
A Money Mind at 90: Philip L. Carret, Richard Hanley
Ebooks review | November 3rd 2009 by Gardener
Editorial Reviews Published in 1991, Carret’s latest book is organized in three sections; autobiographical, personal and financial. He begins with his definition of the “money mind” and proceeds with a text that is both eloque read more
Och-Ziff Earnings Beat Expectations
AIG | November 3rd 2009
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, the big publicly-traded hedge fund run by Daniel Och, said distributable earnings for the third quarter fell 35 percent on lower assets under management, but results topped Wall Street forecasts. read more
7 Terms That Should Never Be Used To Describe A Finance Pro
The Reformed Broker | November 3rd 2009 by Joshua Morgan Brown
A successful career on Wall Street is as much about the failures as it is about the wins. Anyone who tells you differently is either hiding their past mistakes or is about to experience their own epic collapse, made even worse by the fact that it w read more
The Periodic Table of Finance Bloggers
The Reformed Broker | November 2nd 2009 by Joshua Morgan Brown
Click Image to Embiggen! http://thereformedbroker.com I’ve been asked several times to update my finance blogger list, so I figured on the week of The Reformed Broker’s first anniversary, I’d oblige. Everyone listed on The Periodic read more
Escucha al legendario gestor de Hedge Funds, Julian Robertson
Investorsconundrum | November 1st 2009 by Marc Garrigasait
Julian Robertson, durante la reciente entrevista para FT. Una de los pocas que ha ofrecido (15-oct-09). ¿Quien es Julian Robertson?, pues sencillamente uno de los gestores de inversiones mas exitosos de la historia. Es uno de los legendarios gestore read more
IBM's Moffat Leaves Company After Galleon Arrest; Adkins Named Re…
ForexHunter. Trader's Diary | October 30th 2009
Moffat, 53, was arrested in what federal prosecutors are calling the biggest insider-trading scheme involving hedge funds. The 31-year IBM veteran is accused of leaking information about the earnings of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., as well as a reo read more
Hedge Fund Manager Phil Duff: "This Is a Performance Busines…
ForexHunter. Trader's Diary | October 30th 2009
Former employees say Duff had a great idea: a hedge fund that was a one-stop shop for pension managers looking to boost returns. Duff would offer a carefully vetted, diverse group of investment strategies under one roof, rather than bet on one type o read more
Markets in a Broader Context. Audio Interview
ForexHunter. Trader's Diary | October 30th 2009
Mark Taylor, author of "Confidence Games", provides an overview of key themes in today's markets (audio interview, Nov 15, 2008):http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2008/Taylor.html read more
Kiener Hedge Fund Investigation Continues
ForexHunter. Trader's Diary | October 30th 2009
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Helmut Kiener went from selling advertising for telephone books and getting paid by the ad to starting a German hedge-fund firm that would eventually make bets using millions borrowed from such banks as Barclays Plc, JPMorgan C read more
Citadel to Allow Withdrawals Beginning Nov. 30
AIG | October 29th 2009
After nearly a year of having their cash frozen in two big hedge funds, investors in Kenneth C. Griffin's Citadel Investment Group will now be able to withdrawal their cash. read more
Citadel's Brokerage Head Is Leaving
AIG | October 29th 2009
Rohit D'Souza, a former Merrill Lynch executive hired a year ago by the Citadel Investment Group to build an investment bank and brokerage firm, is leaving the hedge fund firm. read more
Paul Tudor Jones 3rd Quarter Investor Letter: Another Gold (GLD)…
Fund my Mutual Fund | October 29th 2009 by TraderMark
Einhorn, Paulson... and now one of the legends of the hedge fund business Paul Tudor Jones... have all jumped on the gold bandwagon. [May 16, 2009: John Paulson Continues to Pile Into Gold] [Mar 17, 2009: John Paulson Joins David Einhorn as Gol read more
Time Magazine’s Who’s Who of Who is Responsible for the Finan…
Madison Who’s Who | October 29th 2009 by Matt Schwartz
Happy 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday, excuse the black humor. The catastrophic downturn of Monday, October 28 and Tuesday, October 29 in 1929 precipitated widespread alarm and the onset of an unprecedented and long-lasting economic depression for read more
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