Yearly Archives: 2005
More Mutual funds copy Hedge Fund trading tactics
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – A growing number of traditional mutual fund companies now offer hedge fund type portfolios according to news reports. Such change in tactics resulted from manyyears of poor market performance by mutual fund companies, following […]
Merrill Lynch analysis shows Hedge Funds are buying Blue-Chip Growth Stocks
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – New research conducted by Merrill Lynch shows that hedge fund managers trading equities concentrated their trading activities on blue-chip and growth stocksduring the month of February 2005. Merrill also showed that hedge funds now […]
Princeton Economics Professor worried about future Hedge Fund returns
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Burton Malkiel, professor of economics at Princeton University told the ICBI conference in Geneva that he is worried about future hedge fund returns. Malkielbelieves that hedge fund indexes, which track the global hedge fund […]
FX Concepts Launches New Fund
New York-based currency manager FX Concepts announced today that it is launching a new fund based on its FX Volatility Program. The Volatility Program is an outgrowth of two specific non-directional strategies that FX Concepts has been operating since March […]
Offshore Jurisdictions – What’s the difference?
(www.hedgeco.net) – Although there are many offshore jurisdictions that cater to hedge funds, the differences between them can be hard to discern at first glance. The following is a brief descriptionof some of the salient features of three of these […]
Hedge Funds are more optimistic about the dollar rally
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Increasing numbers of FX hedge funds are more hopeful that the recent dollar gains may continue in the near future. Many of these managers seem to be changingtheir bearish views on the dollar, that […]
Mark Chambers urges European Institutions to increase Hedge Fund investments
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Man’s head of sales management in Europe, Mark Chambers said that European Institutions needs to increase their hedge fund investments. According to Chambers,such institutions have been slow in implementing hedge fund investments; as a […]
Chief Investment Officer at CalPERS fear private equity crash
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – Mark Anson, the Chief investment officer of the California Public Employees Retirement System {CalPERS, has expressed fears that the US private equity marketmay be heading for a crash. According to Anson, such crash may […]
South African Regulators to license Hedge funds within one year
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – The South African Financial Market regulator, FSB has announced its plans to license hedge funds in South Africa soon. According to chairman of the SouthAfrican Financial Services Board, Dr Cyrus Rustomjee, �the FSB plans […]
Gottex to soft close its flagship hedge fund, the Gottex Market Neutral Fund
Following the closing of the 2x and 3x leveraged share classes last year, Gottex Fund Management will soft close the non-leveraged classes in its highly successful Gottex Market Neutral Fund (the “MNFund”) on March 1, 2005. After this date, existing […]
Hedge Funds may face consolidation some suggest
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) – The global hedge fund industry has witnessed significant asset growth over the past four years, new data inflows into hedge fund managed portfolios show thatthe industry now manages well over $1 trillion. Many experts […]
Hedge Funds score victories for Air Canada
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (www.hedgeco.net) Hedge Funds have scored big victories with their acquisition of Air Canada�s distressed debt by succeeding in converting such debt instruments into stock.According to news reports, several hedge funds mostly from North America and Europe […]
