Monthly Archives: March 2006

Street.Com – Several notable names are in the midst of raising money for new real estate-focused hedge funds. Two weeks ago, Jay Leupp, managing director of equity research at RBC Capital Markets, became the latest to jump into the space. […]

Reuters – Hedge funds, which long tried to stay out of sight, were featured in 39,989 news stories last year as journalists wrote a record number of articles about the fast growing asset class, datareleased on Tuesday show. Intrigued by […]

 Globe and Mail – There are some signs that hedge funds — the beat-up asset class beset with scandal last year — are poised for a recovery. “On the institution side, we’re getting a lot of traction and retail is […]

New Orleans CityBusiness – Blanchard and Co., a precious commodities and rare coin brokerage in the Central Business District, has bullishly forecast gold prices climbing steadily to $300 an ounce,then $400 and $500. With gold futures for April delivery topping […]

Investors Business Daily – (MarketWatch) — Mutual funds that use sophisticated strategies to control stock-market risk are coming out from behind their hedges. Long-short funds, which attempt to profit whether stock prices are rising or falling, were recognized as a […]

New York Post – IT doesn’t take much to get Harvey Pitt going on the subject of Eliot Spitzer. The former head of the Securities & Exchange Commission clearly isn’t one of the New York Attorney General’s biggest fans. “Eliot […]

Eyewitness News – The chief operating officer of a hedge fund was sentenced Monday to one year probation and a $10,000 fine for a market manipulation scheme. J. Douglas Schmidt, 40, of New York, was sentenced in U.S. District Court […]

Times of Malta – Hedge funds are filling their boots on share speculation, as European hostile or unsolicited M&A bids reach a six-year high, fund sources say. Unsolicited bids are good news for share-speculation – the initial bid is typically […]

Globe and Mail – With interest in hedge funds exploding, some ratings agencies are starting to scrutinize the lightly regulated, opaque industry. Moody’s Investors Service in New York is one. It’s developing a methodology for rating hedge fund operations and […]

Reuters – HSBC Halbis Partners has this month launched a distressed debt hedge fund to exploit opportunities thrown up by an expected rise in corporate default rates this year. Analysts say the launch is probably the start of a trend […]