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A Guide To Understanding Hedge Fund Performance
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has published a new educational guide to understanding hedge fund performance, ‘Apples and apples: How to better understand hedge fund performance.’’ (PDF) AIMA says comparing hedge fund performance to the […]
Chicago Financial Community To Join Forces At May 8th Hedge Funds Care
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – At the 12th Annual Midwest “Open Your Heart to the Children” Benefit organized by Hedge Funds Care/Help For Children (HFC) Sheffield Asset Management will recieve the 5th Annual Kelly Lively Memorial Award for outstanding commitment to […]
Global AgInvesting opens today featuring over 115 industry expert speakers and attracting hundreds of international attendees
More than 115 expert speakers from top investment and ag companies will present at the 6th annual Global AgInvesting (GAI) conference, opening today at the iconic Waldorf Astoria here and running through Thursday, May 1. This premier agriculture investing conference […]
The Hedge Fund Kid and the Treasure Ship
BusinessWeek – On Monday, a deep-water exploration ship lingered 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, S.C. The vessel is operated by Odyssey Marine Exploration (OMEX), a company with a unique business model: It recovers treasure from shipwrecked vessels. Odyssey Marine hopes to retrieve […]
Notorious Troll Gives Interview To CNBC About TRO LLC Hedge Fund Plans
Gawker – Today Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer put on a (plaid?) suit and tie and got on CNBC to talk about his plan to form a hedge fund, TRO LLC. The fund, as we’ve told you before, will be devoted to shorting […]
Hedge funds wade into systemic risk debate
FIN – The Alternative Investment Management Association, the Hedge Fund Standards Board and Brevan Howardare among the industry members that have pushed back against regulators’ proposals. Their comments, in response to a consultation by the Financial Stability Board and the International Organization of Securities Commissions on how […]
Hedge Funds Report: Impact of Size And Age On Performance
Investing.com – A new report from eVestment looks at the relationship between the size and age of hedge funds on the one hand, and their performance on the other. Personally, though, I found the tables relating standard deviation to those […]
Hedge Funds Short Small Caps Most Since ’04
Bloomberg – Money managers are turning on stocks that have delivered the best returns during the bull market: small caps. Large speculators such as hedge funds are betting $2.8 billion this month that theRussell 2000 Index will fall. That’s the most […]
Hedge Fund Managers Back Star-Studded Climate Change Documentary Series
New York (HedgeCo.Net ) – Three hedge fund managers have accorded over $1.5 million apiece to the new series, “Years of Living Dangerously” which premiered on Showtime this month. The series highlights the effects of climate change already happening around […]
Rothschild Group Teams Up With Hedge Fund Seeder Larch Lane
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Rothschild Asset Management, the US asset management business of the Rothschild Group, and employee-owned Larch Lane Advisors have teamed up to establish the Rothschild Larch Lane Management Company LLC. Bringing together two experts in hedge fund […]
Fund of hedge funds face fight for cash with consultants
Reuters – Funds that invest in a range of hedge funds are facing a battle to win new business, as the same consultants they court to win money from pension firms are grabbing a chunk of an industry that was […]
Hedge fund manager Davide Serra alleges price manipulation in shorting attack on Quindell
Telegraph – Davide Serra, the hedge fund manager who has advised the Government on the future of banking, has complained to regulators on both sides of the Atlantic about last week’s shorting attack on country club-turned-legal outsourcer Quindell Portfolio. The […]