Monthly Archives: May 2006
Man heightens hedge fund fears
Independent – Man Group, the world’s largest quoted hedge fund manager, fuelled fears yesterday that some of its smaller competitors may be in serious trouble after revealing that some of its futures funds have made substantial losses this month. The […]
Canadian Tire stock soars on hedge fund praise
Edmonton Journal – Canadian Tire Corp. shares soared Wednesday after a well-known U.S. hedge fund manager lauded the company at a prestigious New York investment conference. The stock rose on much heavier than average volume after William Ackman, managing partner […]
Time to Hedge Your Bets
Motley Fool – First things first: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Fool and, not coincidentally, a buy-to-hold investor who absolutely believes that the best place for long-term money is the stock market. Noother investment vehicle — not real estate, not bonds, and […]
Horizon Cash Management Fields Best Practices Survey
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Horizon Cash Management LLC, a leading cash manager for alternative investment funds, today announced the launch of an online research study: “The 2006 Survey ofBest Practices in the Hedge Fund Industry.†Horizon invites all […]
India welcomes Hedge Fund Investments
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – India is beginning to revise its strategy as an emerging market, as hedge funds which control trillions of dollars are looking for new investment space. Emergingmarket funds have seen $30bn of inflows in the […]
AdultVest heads to Miami with 1,000 registered investors
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Beverly Hills, Tuesday, May 23, 2006, AdultVest.com, the first and only investment website serving the $57BN/yr adult industry, has set a blistering pace recruiting broker dealers, venture capital, private equity, hedge funds and accredited […]
Equity and Commodity Bets boost Hedge Fund Returns
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – French business school Edhec said in a release today that hedge funds that bet on equity and commodity prices around the world were amongst the top performers inApril. Funds of hedge funds, which invest […]
Asian stocks slide again as Hedge Funds fuel rout in Emerging Markets
FinFacts Ireland – Asian stocks continued falling on Tuesday and in Tokyo, the Nikkei-225 index closed 1.63% down, at 15,599.20 and the broader Topix index fell 2.3%. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell after the lender forecast a 37% drop […]
Hedge fund grandee sounds ‘death knell’ for the industry
Times Online – CRISPIN ODEY, one of the grandees of the London hedge fund world, said yesterday that the industry could be doomed, likening it to the disaster that was the Lloyd’s of London insurancemarket in the 1980s. Most hedge […]
Lex live: Hedge funds/Euronext
Euro2day – In early 2005 Chris Hohn was the toast of the City of London. His hedge fund, TCI, led the successful revolt against Werner Seifert, the former Deutsche Börse boss with a penchant for shouting at shareholders. Today, TCI […]
Investors face tough questions as rally begins
Euro2day – Investors in some international equity markets were handed a partial reprieve on Tuesday as a clutch of markets rebounded from the sharp falls of recent days. European markets made a strong recovery, while India’s Sensitive Index rose 3.25 […]
Volatility becomes an asset class
Financial Times – Volatility is becoming an asset class in its own right. A range of structured derivative products, particularly those known as variance swaps, are now the preferred route for manyhedge fund managers and proprietary traders to make bets […]