Yearly Archives: 2005
Performance and Advertising – SEC Examination Focus on Hedge Fund Managers
By February 2006, most hedge fund managers will need to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SECâ€Â) and thereby become subject to the SEC’s inspections and examinations program. It is clear from recent SEC enforcement actions that […]
Fairfield Straits Lion Launches Fairfield Fortitude Fund
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release Fairfield Straits Lion Adds Australian Exposure with: FAIRFIELD FORTITUDE AUSTRALIAN ABSOLUTE RETURN FUND LTD. 4 October 2005, Singapore. Fairfield Straits Lion Asset Management Limited (“FSLâ€Â) continues its series of fund launches in 2005 with the […]
Man Group says has supported U.S. hedge fund probe
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Man Group (EMG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it had cooperated with the receiver of a collapsed U.S. hedge fund firm and that it was surprised by his motion for the London-listed financial company […]
Hedge Funds Are Flying High
( www.forbes.com ) NEW YORK – Investors are opportunists, and both love bankruptcies. The airline industry is obliging all of them. Hedge funds and private equity groups are flocking to take on securities whose value is backed by leases on […]
Hedge Fund Jumps Into Venture Debt Investing
( www.redherring.com ) – Lending money to fast-growing startup companies that could fizzle out as quickly as they caught flame may not be thesafest investment approach in the world, but it’s a money-making strategy that seems pretty staid compared to the kind […]
Anatomy Of A Hedge Fund
( The Hartford Courant – www.courant.com ) Hedge funds have become part of the cultural landscape. But many who use the term – including some would-beinvestors – do not understand what, exactly, a hedge fund is. Hedge funds began as investment […]
Investcorp Partnership with Cura Capital Management offers clients
( www.cnn.com ) – Sophisticated investors use hedge funds to increase the overall performance of their investment portfolio. Hedge funds can generally achieve higherreturns, relative to risk, than traditional investments by using a range of innovative investment styles, hedging strategies […]
Take upmost care when choosing a hedge fund
( www.netassets.co.za ) Some of the world’s most heinous atrocities have been committed in the name of religion. However, many of the world’s most caring acts of love and compassion have also been attributed to religion. The term “hedge fund” […]
Hedge Fund CDs Insured by FDIC Bedeviled by Details
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg- John Wasik) — Suppose you wanted to invest in hedge funds and your principal was guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.? At first blush, this sounds like an easy way to anchor a risky investment within […]
Hedge Fund Report: Railing Against Registration
( www.thestreet.com ) – Paul Atkins, the SEC commissioner who tried and failed to block a rule requiring hedge fund registration, continues to rail against the notion that 500 agency examiners can effectively regulate 8,000 private partnerships. “You can’t put […]
Connecticut’s Hedge Edge
(Hartford Courant: Ritu Kalra, Courant Staff Writer) When two financiers hung out a shingle and called themselves Fairfield Partners in Greenwich four decades ago, they were pioneers able to run the state’s first hedge fund in relative obscurity. Today, Fairfield […]
Hedge funds boom led to £5bn riches
(The Guardian) Man Group is the most phenomenal money machine the City has seen for decades. Its trick was to catch the rise of hedge funds at their outset in the 1980s and pursue the growth of these”alternative” investments at […]
