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Day Trading for Beginners | October 20th 2009 by Barry Friedmann
There are more foreclosures in the United States right now than we have ever experienced before. But challenge always gives rise to opportunity, and opportunistic real estate investors are rising to the challenge. The real estate investing strategy d read more
From Alphaclone via SeekingAlpha: Galleon Group’s 50 Largest Ho…
Amateur Economists | October 20th 2009 by Anthony Luafalealo
My first employer on Wall Street was the world’s largest pension fund; my second, the fastest growing hedge fund. When I was at the first and interviewing for the second, I had this idea that the best hedge fund were investing on some higher read more
Flurry By hedge funds in the market
Australian Stock Watch | October 20th 2009 by jeff
Hedge funds have come out from hibernation to get the market in a bit of action today. Hedge funds have been busy buying banks as the banks look more and more attractive as they inch the australian markets higher . read more
If Galleon Unloads Their Treasures…
The Reformed Broker | October 19th 2009 by Joshua Morgan Brown
For what it’s worth, here’s a quick look at Galleon’s top ten holdings. I’d imagine that the phones are ringing off the hook with redemption requests as we speak. These are almost all mega-caps, so I wouldn’t expect read more
Public Pension Funds Hedge Fund Rip Off
Le Revue Gauche | October 17th 2009
Here is another case of a publicly funded Canadian public sector pension fund being used to take over a U.S. company forced into bankruptcy by private hedge funds. The teachers in Ontario who are shareholders in the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund hav read more
Hedge fund billionaire charged with insider trading
FinanceZee | October 16th 2009 by Bart Gatsby
Filed under: People , IBM , Google , Intel By the standards of Bernie Madoff's $60 billion swindle, the latest shenanigans from Wall Street are relatively small potatoes. But a hedge fund manager who Forbes ranked as the 236th richest person in Ameri read more
WHAT MAKES THE HEDGE FUND SO ATTRACTIVE??
kenyantykoon's blog | October 16th 2009 by moses
I have heard of this fund and I have noticed that most of the forbes billionaires that made their fortunes in finance are hedge fund managers. So I did some digging and this is what I came up with. Just like the mutual fund, this hedge fund is an inv read more
Galleon Hedge Fund Taking On Water
The Reformed Broker | October 16th 2009 by Joshua Morgan Brown
Much like the Spanish galleons of old, which sailed back to the motherland laden with the ill-gotten riches plundered from the Americas, the Galleon Group of hedge funds was nailed today for insider trading. I’ve only skimmed the indictment, bu read more
South African Hedge Funds Survey Results: South Africa’s Hedge…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 16th 2009
The South African hedge fund industry proved its resilience by remaining stable through recent market turbulence with assets under management of R29.7 billion at 30 June 2009 – just 2% lower than the previous year’s R30.3 billion. Althoug read more
Wharton School Graduate Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of Ga…
edwin jamora dot com | October 16th 2009
Here we are again. Maddoff revisited. Like we have not had enough of Wall Street scandals that plagued the world’s financial markets and sent many of us to the unemployment line and one financial crisis that enveloped the world and even sent Ic read more
Self-Regulation Helps South African Hedge Funds Survive “100-Ye…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 15th 2009
The impact of the global financial crisis on the South African hedge fund industry has been considerably less than the shockwaves felt across the international industry, and the US in particular. Despite some poor returns and a couple of funds electi read more
Hedge Fund Investors to Sue SEC
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 14th 2009 by Bart Mallon
SEC’s Madoff Failure Cited in Lawsuit Just a quick note that the New York Times has written an article about two Madoff investors who are suing the SEC for not doing its job. It will likely be a tough case for the investors/plaintiffs to prevail read more
Hedge Fund Market Exposure Back To Normal
Trader's Narrative | October 14th 2009
Here’s an interesting chart from Merrill Lunch’s recent “Hedge Fund Monitor” report. It shows that traditional long short hedge funds have returned to a historically normal market exposure after the shock late last year: With read more
Wall Street Pay Could Set Record
Boom2Bust.com | October 14th 2009 by Christopher E. Hill
Looks like Wall Street is going to have a banner year when it comes to compensation. From the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Grocer and Aaron Lucchetti this morning: Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 read more
South African Hedge Funds Poised for Next Stage of Growth, Says H…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 14th 2009
It has been a difficult year for all involved in the financial services sector, but recovery, albeit slow, seems to be on the horizon. For South Africa, the impact of the crisis has been much less than that experienced in other counties such as the U read more
South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry Can Benefit from Growth Oppo…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 14th 2009
Finally the dust is settling and financial players are refocusing on future growth strategies. In all likelihood we will look back on 2008 as the watershed year for the South African hedge fund industry, which had its origins in the directionally tre read more
South African Hedge Fund Service Providers Take on Enhanced Role…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 13th 2009
The efficient structuring and ongoing operational efficiency of hedge funds is very reliant on a group of supporting professionals, the services providers, and in South Africa as elsewhere most hedge funds carry out their operations with assistance f read more
South African Hedge Fund Industry Presents a Compelling Case thro…
Business News about Nigeria, Africa, and Emerging Markets | October 13th 2009
South Africa’s market architecture has withstood the seismic shocks unleashed by the global financial market collapse. While the rest of the world, including the in-favor quartet of Brazil, Russia, India and China, dusts itself off and revisits read more
Raising Hedge Fund Assets | New Market Requires New Strategies
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 13th 2009 by Bart Mallon
http://www.hedgefundlawblog.com As part of our ongoing discussion on how to raise assets for hedge funds, today we have another guest post from Karl Cole-Frieman who specializes in providing legal advice to hedge funds and other alternative asset man read more
What is a Hedge Fund?
Successful Investment Articles | October 11th 2009 by Audrina Majella
To become a good businessman, you should make a lot of researching and study. You better read more helpful business management articles to have a firm background of the area you want to explore. There maybe words that will appear unfamiliar to you. A read more
Purchasing an ERISA Fidelity Bond
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 11th 2009 by Bart Mallon
Information on How to Buy ERISA Bond Purchasing an ERISA Fidelity Bond is essentially the same as purchasing a fidelity bond for an investment advisory firm and this article is meant to serve as guide as to cost and timing to secure one of these bon read more
Hedge Funds and Insider Trading
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 10th 2009 by Bart Mallon
Hedge Fund Manager/Trader Settles Charges with SEC Insider trading cases pop up every now and again and most cases do not warrant highlighting - post-Boesky everyone in the securities industry is well aware that trading on inside information is illeg read more
Raising Hedge Fund Capital | Fund of Funds Investors
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 9th 2009 by Bart Mallon
http://www.hedgefundlawblog.com Please see below an article contributed to our website by Strategic Asset Management, a full service hedge fund administration firm providing accounting, tax, administration, compliance, web creation and marketing mate read more
San Francisco Hedge Fund Industry Event
Hedge Fund Law Blog | October 8th 2009 by Bart Mallon
BAHR Panel Discussion on Global Investing Trends By Bart Mallon of Mallon P.C. The Bay Area Hedge Fund Roundtable convened again today at the Sens Restaurant in San Francisco to discuss the global investing trends and how those trends are affecting t read more
Hedge Funds: Up, Up, and Away
EconomPic Data | October 7th 2009 by Jake
Source: Barclay Hedge read more
Why go after the Oil companies ?
Random ramblings on the market | October 7th 2009 by Derivatives Guru
Higher oil prices have all the politicians eyeing the profits of oil companies. I am happy with the oil companies making some profits. That will encourage more capital to be invested in these companies, which is what we all want. We need to invest in read more
Altura: nace la mayor agencia de intermediación en España
Blog Financiero | October 4th 2009 by www.100Blogs.com
BBVA y Newedge (la más renombrada agencia de intermediación bursátil multiactivos) han creado Altura, la mayor agencia española de intermediación bursátil y liquidación de España. Altura nace para proporcionar servicios de contratación y read more
Lecturas de domingo.
Easy trader | October 4th 2009 by Javier Moreno
Flavio Briatore, el buscavidas de las gafas oscuras, Peregrinación a CarrefourComienza el baile de las plusvalíasCómo marcarnos objetivosLa directiva europea sobre 'hedge funds' causa alarma en la CityLas grandes fortunas de EE UU, con Bill Gates read more
Hedge Funds Assets Update
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | October 2nd 2009 by Richard
Hedge Funds Assets Update Hedge Funds Assets on the Rise in 2009 | Video Hedge funds have continued to do well through August, surprising some analysts. The following video is an update of the industry and how hedge fund assets have risen in Au read more
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