Monthly Archives: June 2003

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 2, 2003–Space Holdings, a multimedia company dedicated to space, science and technology, announced today that it has closed $4 million in a new round of financingfrom four of its original investors: Blue Chip Venture Company, Gannett Co., […]

CHICAGO, June 2, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) — Ibbotson Associates, a leading provider of investment tools and knowledge, today launched a hedge fund advisory services department for financial intermediaries,including asset managers, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, brokers and private banks. The services […]

THE National Information Technology Council (NITC) is working with relevant agencies to formulate new measures in enabling information and communications technology (ICT) ventures move along theentire funding supply chain. In addition to seed funding, the NITC believes that there must […]

Abstract We investigate the claim that hedge funds offer investors a superior risk-return tradeoff. We do so using a continuous-time version of Dybvig’s (1988a), (1988b) payoff distribution pricing model. The evaluation model, which does not require any assumptions with regard […]

To help realize your organization’s financial goals, it’s important to employ an investment evaluation process based on sound, well-proven economic practices. There’s no denying times are tough. The average defined-benefit plan went from being 100 percent funded in January 3002 […]

If there is one thing investment managers agree on, regardless of vehicle, if is the value of diversification, which is experiencing new importance in an era of negative to flat equity returns. Butthe definition of diversification can vary significantly. Who’s […]

The phrase “alternative investments” usually refers to managed futures and the myriad of hedge fund strategies. But alternative investments include everything outside the traditional stock and bondportfolio. A group of managers recognizing this has put together a fund of funds […]

If you’ve lost your shirt on the stock market and you’re looking for investment alternatives, hedge funds offer an opportunity to get positive returns in falling markets explains Mark Hutchinson. Hedge funds, traditionally the preserve of institutional investors and high […]

Emerging out of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was a different kind of individual who later became known as the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur has been a driving force for change and hasbeen responsible for shaping the material lifestyle for […]

In the life cycle of growing companies, it seems that the planting and the harvest get the most attention. In East Tennessee a lot of talk focuses on seed funding – the early investments that help new companies plant roots […]

A team of young venture capitalists from Te Awamutu College has won the inaugural Venture Capital Game, organised by The Small Business Company. The team, which beat out 500 other teams from schools throughout New Zealand, amassed an impressive $22,118,294 […]

Struggling technology start-ups with real potential – even revolutionary concepts in their field – are scattered across Maine. But year-in and year-out, Maine does such a poor job of attracting venture capital that many of these firms languish and die […]