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*Edit: Revised Madoff Feeder Fund Letter to Investors
A letter dated December 22, 2008 and sent from Fairfield Sentry Limited to its investors recently surfaced here. The fund, part of Fairfield Greenwich Group, had invested in excess of $7 billion in Bernard Madoff Securities, making it Madoff’s largest feeder fund investor. In wake of the surrounding facts which have surfaced in the case, we have received a rough […]
Hedge My Job
It looks like the market for `financial dream jobs´ may have actually perked up amidst the financial turmoil of the past few months. Investment managers saw a 22% increase in job offers as rival firms take advantage of the increasing number of financial services workers looking for a job by “snapping up the cream of the crop on much less than […]
SPDR Explanation
In an interview with Dan Dolan of Select Sector SPDRs on how the economic crunch is affecting trading rhythms, Dolan presented a broad overview of sector SPDRs and how more hedge funds and institutional investors are utilising the option of buying baskets of securities over single stock options. The term SPDR is an acronym for Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts. […]
BHA Q1 2009 Alternative Investor Report
Working with a group of 150 alternative investment managers, alternative investor research company, Brighton House Associates,(BHA) published its Quarterly Research Report highlighting insights and trends from this research that are most pertinent to industry professionals. In summary of the report, the markets continued their downward trend in Q1, but the ability of hedge fund managers and alternative investors to adapt […]