Category Archives: Syndicated
Look for Market to Soar When Hedge Funds Stop Selling
Seeking Alpha – A report making the rounds today detailed managers’ Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from […]
Hedge Funds May Sell At Year End As Banks Skimp On Lending
CNNMoney.com – For equity markets, 2008 will long be remembered as a year of massive selling, and it’s likely to end the same way. Hedge funds will find it increasingly difficult to obtain lending at the end of the year, […]
Hedge funds find silver lining in crisis
Norwalk Advocate – Crisis can create opportunity, and for the smart hedge fund operator, the downturn gripping the global investment community is a chance to build a respected reputation in the industry. While the financial crisis has been unprecedented, so […]
Ignore the Stock Market Until February
Wall Street Journal – Down in the morning, up in the afternoon. Or is it the other way around? The topsy-turvy stock market is tough to read. In the last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has briefly been over […]
A hedge fund that actually hedges risk
Globe and Mail – This is how bad things are for hedge funds right now. On the CanadianHedgeWatch.com website, a hub for the hedge business, the lead article one recent day was headlined "The hedge fund collapse." The article, which […]
John Paulson Buys Mortgage Bonds as Hedge Fund Losses Widen
Bloomberg – Money manager John Paulson has started buying beaten-up mortgage bonds as hedge funds stumbled for a fifth straight month. Paulson, 52, is purchasing debt backed by home loans after generating sixfold returns last year with help from bets […]
Glitzy Greenwich feels hedge fund pain
Reuters – As many hedge funds suffer big losses and anxious investors yank out their money, the town synonymous with the riches of their recent glory is now hurting. In Greenwich, Connecticut, the luxury car dealers are quiet, the prices […]
Companies and Markets Reports on Hedge Funds in Europe 2008
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Companiesandmarkets.com has released a report presenting views on the market for hedge fund investment based on a survey of 100 leading asset managers across Europe. The report, which covers mass market, high net worth and […]
More jobs axed and rents fall in hedge-fund land
Guardian Unlimited – Wolseley, the world’s biggest trade distributor of plumbing and heating supplies, said it was cutting 2,000 jobs in the UK. The group, which earlier this year said it was cutting more than 5,000 jobs, mainly in the […]
M. Stanley Asia prime broker head leaves-source
CNBC – The head of Morgan Stanley’s prime brokerage arm in Asia, Kurt Baker, has left the firm amid the slump in Asia’s hedge fund industry, a source with direct knowledge of the situation said on Wednesday. A spokesman for […]
Obama Embrace of Wall Street Insiders Points to Politic Reforms
Bloomberg – During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama’s campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief executive […]