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Evanston Capital Management Issues Report on Hedge Fund Replication

Evanston Capital Management, LLC, an alternative investment firm, today published a report examining the intricacies of hedge fund replication strategies. The white paper, Hedge Fund Replication: Is It Appropriate For You?, is available at www.evanstoncap.com. “While there are a limited number of top […]

Hedge fund manager ‘in £42,550 train fare dodge’

BBC – A city executive is believed to have dodged paying £42,550 in train fares by exploiting a loophole which meant he only paid a third of the journey cost. The hedge fund manager from Stonegate, in East Sussex, who […]

Hedge Fund Law Specialists Join Bloomberg BNA

New York (Hedge Co.Net) – The Bloomberg BNA Banking Report Advisory Board is adding hedge fund law firms and specialists to its panel of practitioners and policy experts from across the spectrum of banking law.  The Advisory Board will provide guidance […]

Hedge Fund People: FORT Opens NY Office

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund FORT Management, founded in 1993 by Yves Balcer and Sanjiv Kumar, who formerly worked together as senior fund managers at the World Bank, has expanded its operations and opened an office in New York. […]

Days of Market Calm Seen Ending in Hedge Fund VIX Bets

Bloomberg – Hedge funds are saying goodbye to the calm that blanketed U.S. stocks for the past two years. Large speculators have reduced bets on lower volatility and were net short about 1,000 contracts on VIX (VIX) futures last month, the fewest since 2011, […]

Finding wisdom in a warning from bearish hedge fund manager

Dallas News – I’m generally bullish on the U.S. stock market if for no other reason than it’s about the only game in town. I mean banks pay depositors next to nothing, and who wants to invest in the economic […]

What A Hedge Fund Failure Looks Like

Investing.com – The Twittersphere couldn’t get enough of the news last week that hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones was shutting down one of his eponymous funds, the Tudor Tensor Fund (try saying Tudor Tensor 10 times fast). And critics […]

S&P 500 Posts Worst Week Since 2012 as Hedge-Fund Favorites Sink

Bloomberg – The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite Index capped their worst week since 2012, with stocks most beloved by hedge funds plunging amid concern valuations have climbed too high as earnings season starts. Allegion Plc (ALLE:US), […]

Oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets

Opalesque – In the week ending 11 April, 2014, the oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets according to the latest data from eVestment; Capstone Investment Advisors’ Paul Britton predicted that his current $2.5bn assets will grow to $10bn within five years; […]

Court Approves $1.8 Billion Settlement In SAC Hedge Fund Case

New York (Hedge Co.Net) -Steven A Cohen’s hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors has received court approval on a record criminal settlement for insider trading on Thursday, as a US judge accepted a guilty plea from the hedge fund firm. CBS reports: […]

Hedge funds target laundered funds in Nevada by close associate of the Kirchner family

MercoPress –  The ATFA includes within its members NML Capital and Elliott Management, part of the so-called ‘vulture funds’. These hold-out investors demand full payment on Argentine titles through the US court system, a move strongly resisted by the Argentine […]

Qatar Investment Executive Said to Start Hedge Fund

NYT – A top investment executive at Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is leaving to start a hedge fund, people briefed on the development said. Kamel Maamria has served as head of the global investment portfolio at Qatar Holding, a branch […]