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Congress Mulls Bills on Investor Protection, Hedge Funds, National Insurance Office
Investment Advisor – Taking further steps toward financial services regulatory reform, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing October 6 to discuss three legislative discussion drafts put forth by Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania) on investor protection, registration of advisors […]
Recovery landscape brightens for F&C partner
Reuters – Francois Barthelemy has had a tough year. The F&C Partners manager saw assets under management in his hedge funds slump by 80 percent as the financial crisis gripped, and revived performance is yet to bring new inflows. Speaking […]
Congress told venture capital firms need oversight
Reuters – U.S. hedge funds and private equity firms told Congress on Tuesday that all advisers to private pools of capital should be subjected to the same level of federal scrutiny, including those managing venture capital funds. A draft U.S. […]
U.K. Church Is Unlikely Defender of Hedge Funds
WSJ – The Church of England has emerged as an unlikely defender of the hedge-fund industry against the prospect of new regulations from the European Union. Only last year, the Archbishop of York was calling hedge funds “bank robbers” for […]
The mystery investor who is turning the tin market on its head
Telegraph – A single investor – thought to be a hedge fund – is sitting on thousands of tonnes of tin in warehouses across London. According to traders almost the entire stocks of tin on the London Metals Exchange (LME) […]
Hedge Fund Manager Goldstein Loses ‘Freedom of Speech’ Case in Massachusetts
Securities Industry News – Hedge fund manager Philip Goldstein, who successfully curbed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s attempts in 2006 to regulate hedge funds, has lost a “freedom of speech” case against the state of Massachussetts. A Massachussetts court on […]
FRM Seeds Asia Focused Hedge Fund
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Global fund of hedge funds group, Financial Risk Management and its seeding arm, (FCA), has entered into a strategic relationship with an Asian hedge fund expected to launch at the beginning of December with between $50 […]
MF Global Taps Hedge Fund Founder as Equities Chief
New Yprk Times – MF Global, the futures broker spun off from British hedge fund giant Man Group two years ago, has tapped a hedge fund veteran as its new global head of equities. Peter Forlenza, founder of New York-based […]
People Moves: Ms. Sandra Urie Appointed to 100 Women In Hedge Fund’s Board
New York (HedgeCo.net) – Ms. Sandra A. Urie has been appointed to the board of 100 Women In Hedge Funds, further augmenting the organization’s network. Ms. Urie is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Associates LLC, a global […]
Hollywood studios in midst of their own horror show
Los Angeles Times – In the decade’s early years, high-net worth individuals and cash-flush hedge funds poured billions into Hollywood, backing independent productions and co-financing big-budget popcorn movies. But as those investors lost fortunes in the markets (and, too often, […]
Sheila Bair Wants To Shut Down Hedge Funds, Too
The Business Insider – FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair wants to end the too big to fail concept and extend the proposal to create the authority to shut down failing systemically important financial firms to insurers and hedge funds. No one […]
Hedge funds in Alameda? Oh my!
SF Gate – Apparently, hedge funds are so toxic in Alameda that just throwing the word around is enough to qualify as in depth criticism of the Alameda Point Revitalization initiative. The question at Alameda Point is whether or not […]