Category Archives: Syndicated
Paamco recruits KBC Alpha pan-Asian fund of hedge funds team
Hedge Week.com – Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, an Irvine, California-based fund of hedge funds manager with USD9bn in assets has announced the recruitment of the investment team of KBC Alpha Asset Management, a USD700 million Asia-focused fund of hedge […]
Hedge Fund Tracking: Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global, Q3 2008
Seekingalpha.com This is the Third Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund tracking series. Next up, we have Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global. Andreas Halvorsen is one of the many ‘Tiger Cub’ fund managers we cover here on the blog. […]
Hedge fund Avenue Capital says now is time to buy
Forbes – Financial assets have become so cheap because of the credit crisis that now is a good time to scoop up bargains, the head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, Avenue Capital, said on Wednesday. ‘Now is […]
Hedge Funds Lower Fees, Lengthen Lockups on New Bond Funds
Bloomberg – Artradis Fund Management Pte, RAB Capital Plc’s Northwest unit and Cannizaro (Hong Kong) Ltd. are cutting fees and locking up investors’ money for longer in new hedge funds that will buy bonds after prices fell in Asia. Merrill Lynch & […]
Iceland: The country that became a hedge fund
CNNMoney.com – On a gloomy morning in early August, more than a month before Wall Street and the world’s financial system seized up, a senior aide to Iceland’s Prime Minister paid a visit to the Russian embassy in Reykjavík to […]
Hedge funds forced to adapt or die
International Herald Tribune – The mergers and acquisitions business is about to take a deep dive. For most of the financial crisis, it has remained surprisingly buoyant. This was partly because there was a lot of business to be done selling […]
Ramius Capital to close four funds
Reuters – Ramius Capital, an activist hedge fund, is informing its investors that it will close four funds with a combined $550 million in assets, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the fund. The assets of the […]
Banks more leveraged than hedge funds: Man Group CEO
Reuters – British hedge fund manager Man Group Plc said on Tuesday banks were more highly geared than hedge funds and bank deleveraging had been the main driver of asset-price declines. "Hedge fund deleveraging has put pressure on asset prices as […]
Hedge Funds And The Early Buffett Partnership
istockAnalyst.com – Mutual funds and hedge funds are very similar. An investor puts $10,000 into a mutual fund or hedge fund, and the manager uses that $10,000—along with the rest of the fund’s capital—to buy and sell securities. Though often […]
US option volume slows from record pace
Reuters – The options market suffered a setback as U.S. exchange-listed volume last month fell 21.2 percent to 224.9 million contracts down from 310.8 million contracts for the same period last year, the Option Industry Council (OIC) said on Monday. […]
Research Edge, LaBranche In Research/Trading Partnership
CNNMoney.com – When Keith McCullough left his hedge fund job last October to start an independent research company, it may have seemed like a curious move. Fourteen months, a highly prescient call on the market crash, and several key hires […]
EU moves toward new hedge fund rules
Washington Post – The European Union will this week take the first step toward new rules governing high-risk hedge funds, the EU’s financial services chief said Monday. EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, long opposed to regulating the funds, is bowing to […]