Monthly Archives: January 2008

HEDGE FUNDS Menta Capital co-founder leaves firm

MarketWatch- George Patterson, co-founder of Menta Capital LLC, said on Tuesday that he has left the San Francisco-based quantitative hedge fund firm. Patterson started Menta in late 2006 with Asriel Levin and Laurent Dubois. The three were formerly portfolio managers […]

Menta Capital Co-founder Leaves Firm

SAN FRANCISCO— George Patterson, co-founder of Menta Capital LLC, said on Tuesday that he has left the San Francisco-based quantitative hedge fund firm. Patterson started Menta in late 2006 with Asriel Levin and Laurent Dubois. The three were formerly portfolio […]

Hedge Funds May Help Solve Market Turmoil, SEC Comissioner Says

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins recommended that European and US regulators should learn from each other’s approach to regulating hedge funds, particularly as the hedge fund industry became more international. Atkins said he also expects hedge funds […]

Indian Policymakers Looking At Hedge Funds To Neutralize Rupee Appreciation

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- India has been looking to hedge funds and loans since this year’s decline began in industrial growth from 11% a year ago to 9.5% in the first half of 2007-08, coupled with a fall in the […]

Hedge funds seek to shake up board of the New York Times

Independent- Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times and the chairman of its family-controlled parent company, picked out one of the most irritating thorns in his side in October when, after a two-year campaign to shake up the […]

Hedge funds seek to shake up board of the New York Times

CNNMoney.com Hedge funds seek to shake up board of the New York TimesIndependent, UK – 6 hours agoA pair of hedge funds has amassed a 5 per cent stake and wants to impose a slate of new directors and a sharp new […]

Chinese-style hedge funds lure top managers

Reuters- After he resigned as chief investment officer of JPMorgan’s China fund venture last August, Lu Jun was inundated with offers of senior posts at other asset management firms. But Lu, widely known in the country’s 3.2 trillion yuan ($445 […]

Hedge funds fuel volatility

InvestorDaily- Hedge fund participation in the share market downturn has only intensified the markets’ rapid fall, according to Australian Unity chief investment officer David Bryant. "They make a lot of money very quickly on the downside and unfortunately the Australian […]

Northern Trust FoHF’s To Recieve Daily, Instead of Monthly Data

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Northern Trust has announce the setup of a worldwide partnership with financial applications company youDevise, it will offer funds of hedge funds daily portfolio management data. Typically, funds of hedge funds ("FoHF") can only get this […]

Funds of funds braced for fall in returns

Reuters- Funds of hedge funds managers are bracing themselves for poor returns in the first half of the year across many portfolios as fears of a U.S. recession seep into the global economy, a Reuters poll showed. The quarterly survey […]

Hedge funds flex muscles

Philadelphia Inquirer- The lousy January start for the U.S. stock market is giving activist hedge funds plenty of company in the misery they see. You don’t have to look far for local examples. Comcast Corp. and its chairman and CEO […]

Crisis grips European hedge funds

Times Online- A RAFT of European hedge funds have been forced to introduce emergency measures to protect their businesses from collapsing in the wake of the turmoil in financial markets. Up to 10 European hedge funds have suspended redemptions after […]