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Hedge Fund Flows
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | 20 hours ago by Richard
Hedge Fund Flows Hedge Fund Flows Reach Pre-Crisis Level In the last few months we've been gathering evidence that the hedge fund industry has really recovered and today's news is a milestone in a great year for hedge funds. Clients of hedge f read more
Top 4 Hedge Fund Trends: Free Video
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | December 18th 2009 by Richard
Top 4 Hedge Fund TrendsBelow is a short video discussing what I see as the top 4 trends affecting the hedge fund industry. If you are viewing this message via email or rss please click here to watch the embedded video on our site now. Relate read more
Gold and Oil – getting ready for a surge in 2010
Contrarian Profits | December 18th 2009 by Contrarian Profits
Lee Lowell, Stock and Commodity Options Specialist with Investment U, evaluates the commodities market – specifically the demand drivers of gold and oil, and how to play them. Lee Lowell (Investment U): If you’re looking for some calm during read more
Hedge Funds Help Scuttle Biogen's Facet Bid
AIG | December 18th 2009
Two hedge funds helped Facet Biotech fend off a $420 million unsolicited bid from Biogen Idec. read more
Art Hedge Fund
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | December 17th 2009 by Richard
Art Hedge Fund First Art Hedge Fund Closes | Hedge Fund Notes Artistic Investment Advisers will liquidate its more than $6 million Art Trading Fund this month. Artistic Investment Advisers attracted a lot of attention over the last two and a ha read more
LCH Begins Backing Interest Swaps for Bank Client
Lehman Lotto | December 17th 2009 by TROY UHLMAN
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- LCH.Clearnet Ltd., Europe’s largest clearinghouse, began guaranteeing trades today between banks and their clients in the $342 trillion interest-rate swaps market.The London-based clearinghouse’s SwapClear Client Clearing S read more
100 Women in Hedge Funds partners with Prince William in support…
Hedge Fund Blog | December 17th 2009 by Dave
100 Women in Hedge Funds announced during Prince William’s visit to a Centrepoint hostel that, as part of the Prince’s patronage of 100 Women in Hedge Funds, it has chosen to partner with Centrepoint as well. Centrepoint is the UK’s leading nat read more
18 Lessons From Shooting Star Hedge Funds
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | December 17th 2009 by Richard
18 Lessons from Shooting Star Hedge Funds Fast growing hedge funds are unlike most large hedge funds and emerging hedge fund managers. They have figured something out and are positioned to grow unlike 90%+ of the industry. Here are some lesson read more
Excellent forex trading tools
Trade Real Currency | December 17th 2009 by Tami
The standard indicators are one of the most efficient tools in forex market. These have been in the business for quite a few years now. The effectiveness of such tools may astonish anyone. The tool finds usage in various parts of the world and is qui read more
The Short Case For General Growth Properties (GGWPQ)
Market Folly | December 16th 2009 by marketfolly
Over the course of this year we've shared various presentations on the potential bullish prospects for mall REIT General Growth Properties (GGWPQ) courtesy of Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management. These have included a recent read more
NETHERLANDS: 'Pension funds took too many risks'
Seniors World Chronicle | December 16th 2009
.AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands / DutchNews / December 17, 2009Many Dutch pension funds took too many risks with their investments and were too optimistic about the prospects, the central bank said in its quarterly economic report on Wednesday. Pension f read more
Goldman and GLG Funds Win Lehman Ruling
Lehman Lotto | December 16th 2009 by TROY UHLMAN
Hedge funds controlled by Goldman Sachs and GLG Partners came out on the winning end of a significant court ruling Tuesday in London, over how to properly distribute billions of dollars of clients money held by Lehman Brothers when it collapsed, The read more
Hedge Funds Win London Lehman Case
Hedge Fund News - Creative Volatility | December 16th 2009 by Alex Akesson
Hedge funds controlled by Goldman Sachs and GLG Partners won a significant court ruling yesterday, over how to properly distribute billions of dollars of clients money held by Lehman Brothers when it collapsed, The Financial Times reported.The High C read more
Rajaratnam and Chiesi Indicted In Hedge Fund Fraud Case
Hedge Fund News - Creative Volatility | December 16th 2009 by Alex Akesson
HedgeCo.net News Archives - Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, an executive at New Castle Funds LLC were indicted Tuesday on multiple counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.“Mr. Rajaratnam is innocent and looks forwar read more
RBC Hedge 250 Index Brings Good Return
BankNerd.ca | December 16th 2009 by Matt Goulart
RBC Capital Markets reported on December 14th that for the month of November 2009, the RBC Hedge 250 Index had a net return of 1.02%. This has brought the year to date return of the RBC Hedge 250 Index to 18.48%. These returns are estimated and will read more
Best Practices of Giant $1B+ Hedge Funds
Richard Wilson Hedge Fund Blog | December 16th 2009 by Richard
Best Practices of Large Hedge Funds Below is a bullet point list of some best practices that I have seen $1B+ hedge funds employing that are more often than not missing within small teams of hedge fund professionals. Giant well run hedge funds of read more
U.K. Ruling Spells Out Lehman Asset Protections
Lehman Lotto | December 16th 2009 by TROY UHLMAN
LONDON -- A U.K. High Court judge issued a ruling Tuesday spelling out how client money held in the main European arm of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. should be handled, benefiting some hedge funds while also serving a blow to others.The ruling relat read more
Investing with Cam Hui, Blogger and advisor to Qwest Investment M…
Investing Thesis | December 16th 2009
Cam Hui, Blogger and advisor to Qwest Investment Management Biography: Mr. Hui was employed by Merrill Lynch in New York City as a Relative Value and Technical Research Analyst. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Cam Hui held portfolio manager positi read more
Short Term Thinking Shorts Us All
Inspired Protagonist | December 15th 2009 by Seventh Generation
There's been plenty said about Wall Street's incredible collapse and the byzantine practices and illusionary (some would say delusionary) financial products that almost brought down our economy. But not enough has been said about the pervasive mindse read more
Hedge Fund Manager Jim Chanos Shorting Automakers
Market Folly | December 15th 2009 by marketfolly
Jim Chanos, the noted short-seller and manager of hedge fund Kynikos Associates was recently interviewed and provided some insight as to what he is shorting. And, we see that he has taken aim at automakers as he is short the manufacturers and said h read more
Will European policies ignite a hedge fund exodus?
Free Market Mojo | December 15th 2009 by Ariel Goldring
FINAlternatives writes, Many have predicted a hedge fund exodus should the controversial European rules—which once included draconian limits on trading and leverage, and now include equally unfriendly rules governing pay—be adopted. But few have read more
Multi-currency bank accounts as a Dollar Devaluation Hedge
Wealth Creation and Offshore Investing | December 15th 2009 by Stephen
As I’ve frequently stated, the problem with conventional asset protection is that it frequently focuses on preserving the numbers in your offshore bank account. What I mean by this, is that if you have a million dollars, your traditional asset read more
Hedge Fund Farallon Capital Adds To Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN)…
Market Folly | December 15th 2009 by marketfolly
In a 13G filed with the SEC, Thomas Steyer's hedge fund firm Farallon Capital has updated their holdings in Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN). Due to activity on December 3rd, Farallon now has a 5.6% ownership stake in with 2,525,422 shares. This is an read more
Hedge Funds Gain $14.93 Billion in November
Hedge Fund News - Creative Volatility | December 15th 2009 by Alex Akesson
HedgeCo News Archives - The hedge fund industry grew by $14.93 billion in November, according to the Eurekahedge report, with performance-based gains of $9.92 billion and net inflows of $5 billion. The total size of the hedge fund universe now stands read more
BNY Launches Independant Hedge Fund Validation Service
Hedge Fund News - Creative Volatility | December 15th 2009 by Alex Akesson
Hedge fund administrator BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services has launched a service that independently validates a hedge fund's position records to third-parties - prime brokers, custodians, trustees and agent banks - and independently verifie read more
Won Sok Lee, KL Group LLC, KL Triangulum Management LLC and Shore…
Background checks, extremely thorough & very inexpensive. | December 14th 2009 by Publishing @ www.BackgroundNow.com
Won Sok Lee, formerly of Singer Island, FL, was sentenced December 11, 2009 by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp on wire fraud charges for his participation in a massive hedge fund fraud scheme. Lee was sentenced today to 298 months in prison (60 m read more
Hedge Fund Eton Park Expands Its UK Holdings
Market Folly | December 14th 2009 by marketfolly
Eric Mindich’s hedge fund Eton Park Capital has recently extended its holdings in the UK market. When we last checked in on their US equities activity, we saw that they had established a large Verisk Analytics position (VRSK) upon its IPO. We now read more
Bears Suffer Losses as Bulls Rejoice in 2009
Roseman's Eruptions | December 14th 2009
Montreal, Canada In 2008 investors earned big profits shorting or betting against global stock markets. Reverse index funds gained more than 40% in the United States last year; exchange-traded-funds, or ETFs, that employ 2x leverage surged more than read more
Forex And Daytrading
Forex Platforms | Broker Reviews | December 13th 2009 by Zig Zag
On-line trading is nice way for serious investors to make cash, but inexperienced traders often wind up with huge losses. A good set of instructions will minimize the risks and save months of high-priced trial-and-error learning. Day Trading Day Tr read more
Forex settlement volumes slip 3.6% in November
ForexWorld | December 13th 2009 by jimzkimz
ONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) – The average number of daily foreign exchange payment instructions fell in November, data from FX settlement system CLS Bank showed on Monday.The average daily volume of payment instructions was 648,217 with an average value read more
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