May 13–It’s not always the thought that counts. At a recent business plan competition at the University of Maryland College Park, young engineers and would-be chief executive officers vying for a piece of a $50,000 pot pushed everything from super-safe […]

COLUMBIA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 13, 2003– Chairman and CEO Jeb Connor to Discuss Award-Winning e-Business Management Software Firm’s Growth Plans at Region’s Most Prestigious Venture Fair Reinforcing its standing as one of the region’s most successful early stage high technology firms, […]

Clickmarks, a provider of software solutions for web and wireless application development and deployment, today announced the closing of an additional round of venture funding, investments from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures, RB Webber & […]

NEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com) – FutureTrade Technologies is adding access to the New York Stock Exchange floor brokerage services through a strategic partnership with JNK Securities, an institutionaldirect access NYSE member firm. The partnership with JNK will enhance the listed execution […]

May 13–Investors who have been hurt by the stock market have searched for anything that has been making money during the last three years. For some, the answer has been hedge funds — high-risk,largely unregulated investment pools. Indeed, hedge funds […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 12, 2003–State Controller Steve Westly today called on the federal Securities and Exchange Commission to provide reasonable safeguards for the rapidlygrowing and largely unregulated hedge fund industry. “The proliferation and increasing availability of hedge funds in recent […]

Venture funding for network start-ups hit a five-year low in the first quarter, as investors remained cautious in light of a continued industry malaise, concerns over the war in Iraq and the U.S.economy. Venture capital firms put just more than […]

HAMILTON, Bermuda (HedgeWorld.com) – Reinsurance company PXRE Group Ltd. reduced its hedge fund portfolio by US$4.2 million in the first quarter of this year. The net reduction came amid a quarterly period when its hedge funds returned 8.2% on an […]

SAN FRANCISCO (HedgeWorld.com) – Aiming for the top spot among hedge fund software providers, Advent Software Inc. is marketing its hedge fund technology as a package made up of the many pieces ofits technology arsenal. Even as the firm officially […]

May 11–United States and British securities regulators will meet leaders of the hedge fund industry this week to express growing concerns that the lightly-regulated sector could be luring lesssophisticated investors. Dozens of top managers, including Soros Fund Management and Carlyle […]

GOVERNMENT-BACKED groups are proposing to invest up to $225 million in New Zealand’s fledgling biotechnology sector. But there are doubts whether there’s enough Kiwi biotech projects worthy of suchinvestment. South Island entrepreneur Howard Paterson’s biotech venture capital firm Quest VC […]

INSURER Promina will announce the final price tomorrow for its initial public offer for which the institutional book build closed last night amid speculation the issue had been targeted by hedgefunds. Promina, which is made up of the Australian and […]