Yearly Archives: 2005

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) -ATM, the financial market watchdog for the Netherlands said it is worried over the lack of transparency of hedge funds. While the industry regulator stopped short of introducing new regulations for hedge funds operating in […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Hurricane Katrina’s recent action in the southern part of the United States is fueling complex weather derivative trades by hedge fund managers. According to reports from London, many hedge fund investors have continued to […]

OF all the sectors of the financial universe, the hedge fund world is probably the most secretive and almost certainly the most alluring. … Open only to institutions and the wealthy, hedge fundsoffer sophisticated models of risk, access to the […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Wolfgang Mayrhuber, the CEO of Lufthansa Airlines said his company will fight to avert possible hedge fund attacks. According to news reports, hedge funds have bought shares in the German airline firm. Mayrhuber told […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – A Cayman Islands judge has appointed the firm, Kroll [Cayman] to help in liquidating the assets of four of the Bayou hedge fund subsidiaries operating in the country. The four funds, Bayou Offshore Master […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – An investor with the failed Bayou Hedge fund has filed a lawsuit against the asset manager for the funds invested in the firm. According to Dow Jones, South Cherry Street has logged a complaint […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Van Hedge Fund Advisors International, LLC (“VAN”) has released its September market sentiment indicators for U.S. equities, the U.S. Dollar and the U.S. Treasury 10-year Note. The VAN Macro Sentiment Indicators are “based on […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – German government authorities have stated that it will be investigating the role of hedge funds and speculators in bidding oil futures. According to news reports, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s government will look into the role […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) -Many hedge fund managers with significant cash at hand have made investments in property catastrophic insurance, a multi billion dollar business. Now with the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in the gulf, such managers are […]

West Palm Beach, FL ( www.hedgeco.net ) – Arizona authorities have seized about $101 million from an account which may be associated to the Bayou Management LLC, the Connecticut based hedge fund manager currently being investigated by regulators. According to […]

West Palm Beach, FL ( www.hedgeco.net ) – Officials in the state of Connecticut are discussing the formation of a task force to examine the possibility of reforming the state’s hedge fund laws. Such action is a response to the […]

West Palm Beach, FL ( www.hedgeco.net ) – The ongoing investigation of the Bayou Hedge Fund Group is revealing details about the problems of the fund. Eric Wilder, assistant Director of the Department of Banking’s Securities Division, confirmed to Associated […]