Monthly Archives: June 2006
Some 450 Hedge Funds Throng Energy Bull Market
Bloomberg – Everywhere you look these days, people are scrambling for energy supplies. China is scouring the world, from the oil sands of Alberta to the oilfields of Iran. Morgan Stanley and other investment banks have spent hundreds of millions […]
Hedge Fund Inspires Deutsche Certificate
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Deutsche Bank has written a euro certificate on the QAM Global Equities Fund, a Singapore-based hedge fund advised by Quant Asset Management. In an interview with AsiaHedge one of the founders, Frank Holle said, […]
Australian Hedge Fund Bets against US Dollar
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Antipodean Capital Management is a hedge fund started by a former senior foreign exchange strategist at ANZ Bank, Craig Ferguson isbetting on a 22-year high in the next 12 months for the Australian dollar. […]
U.S. Court Of Appeals Overturns Hedge Fund Registration Rule
HedgeCo.Net (West Palm Beach, FL) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has struck down the Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring hedge funds to register. The court called hedge funds notoriously difficult to define, and […]
Court throws out SEC hedge fund rule
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — In a blow to the government’s move to regulate hedge funds, a federal court threw out a rule requiring advisers of those investment pools to register with regulators as investment advisers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
Pequot denies insider trading
Jun 23, 2006  BOSTON (Reuters) – Pequot Capital Management on Friday said its trading has always been proper and denied any wrongdoing, after the New York Times reported that U.S. regulators are investigating the $7 billion hedge fund for possible […]
Fall of the ‘Portable Alpha’
WASHINGTON – The financial world has been suffering lately from Post-Greenspan Stress Disorder. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has been accident-prone, and some investors have gotten the jitters. They might be reassured if they paid more […]
If Hedge Funds Made the Mess, They Can Fix It Too
June 23 (Bloomberg) — After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told. It probably won’t be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that struck emerging-economy […]
Case for commodities as stocks hedge intact
LONDON (Reuters) – Raw material and stock prices are likely to move together in reaction to short-term shocks, but over the longer term commodities help to hedge investment portfolios, a conference heard on Wednesday. Over the past few weeks commodity […]
Japanese fund manager Murakami indicted
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo prosecutors indicted high-profile fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami on Friday on charges of insider trading in a deal involving scandal-hit Internet firm Livedoor. Murakami, a former trade bureaucrat known for aggressively squeezing value out of the companies […]
Where Private Equity Goes, Hedge Funds May Follow
WHEN KKR Private Equity Investors raised $5 billion in Amsterdam for a publicly traded buyout fund, inspired fee-seeking competitors lined up to follow suit. When the markets started melting soon after the May offering, most of those competitors moved to […]
Hedge fund Pequot in insider trading probe
NEW YORK – U.S. regulators are investigating Pequot Capital Management, a $7 billion hedge fund, for possible insider trading, The New York Times said on Friday, citing government officials briefed on the case. A lawyer who once led the Securities […]