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Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Bets by Most in Seven Weeks: Commodities
BusinessWeek – Hedge funds cut bullish commodity bets by the most in seven weeks on mounting concern that Europe’s debt crisis will restrain global economic growth and demand for raw materials. Money managers reduced combined net-long positions across 18 U.S. […]
Hedge fund exit requests up in November – GlobeOp
Reuters – Redemption requests by hedge fund clients gathered pace in November as investors kick-started the traditional year-end evaluation of manager performance after a 2011 blighted by unprecedented volatility and erratic returns, recent data shows. The GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator, […]
Richard Medley, Hedge-Fund Advisory Firm Chief, Dies
Bloomberg – Richard H. Medley, founder of hedge- fund advisory firms and a former partner of George Soros, has died at age 60. Medley died Nov. 16 at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center after a brief illness, his […]
Hedge Funds Try To Buy Harvard Junior Phi Beta Kappas
Forbes – Just two days after the 20 brainy Harvard students were named Junior Phi Beta Kappas, the highest academic honor they can achieve– and a year before they are to graduate– the biggest hedge funds in Boston wrote them all letters […]
Hedge Fund Adviser Website Launch: Financial Trust
Press Release – South Florida based SEC registered Investment Advisor specializing in quantitative investment management, Financial Trust Asset Management, has launched a new website. Financial Trust’s Family of 13 investment strategies have won a combined 70 “Top Gun” awards from Informa Investment Solutions, a national […]
Gnip & StockTwits Create Micro-Blogging Data Product For Hedge Funds
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Gnip Inc announced a partnership with StockTwits, launching Gnip MarketStream, a product designed to incorporate the most relevant social media data streams into a single solution for hedge funds and high-frequency traders. “While the use of social media […]
Hedge Funds Shunning Facebook and Twitter
Advanced Trading – Hedge funds, who are known for keeping a low profile, are almost completely ignoring Facebook and Twitter. Only 1 percent of hedge fund managers use Twitter and none have a wall on Facebook, according to a survey […]
SEC: Phony hedge fund sold fake pre-IPO shares
Politico – The pitch on LinkedIn seemed too good to be true: Act now to buy pre-IPO shares of Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Zynga and other hot companies about to go public. And indeed that’s exactly what the Securities and Exchange […]
Synaptic Capital hedge fund targets healthcare sector
Med City News – Synaptic Capital is raising money for a hedge fund looking to target mid- to large-cap companies in the innovation and delivery side of the healthcare sector. The Synaptic Medical Fund uses an equity long-short strategy and […]
Hedge funds and private-equity firms have big plans for Europe
Economist – “THIS is going to be the next great trade,” one American hedge-fund executive effused early this year. For more than two years funds have been salivating over the slew of assets that Europe’s banks will have to sell. […]
Merton Says Hedge Funds Not Contributing to EU Crisis
Bloomberg – Robert Merton, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, talks about possible risks posed by hedge funds to financial markets, and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. He speaks with Carol […]
Hedge Fund Leaders To Speak At Annual Bloomberg Summit
Bloomberg – As hedge fund managers look back on a year filled with black swan events and face uncertainty heading into 2012, Bloomberg LINK will convene the brightest minds in finance to share their perspectives on the year ahead at […]