Category Archives: Syndicated
Cuban may have last word
Vineland Daily Journal – So Mark Cuban — internet billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner, blogging geyser — is in the soup for alleged insider training, the feds claiming he saved himself $750,000. That’s chump change. It wouldn’t even pay his NBA […]
Dubai Real Estate Ruled by ‘Natural Selection’
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – In a recent real estate seminar, sponsored by World Class Group in Dubai, the keynote speaker said that the future of the real estate market will be based on Darwin’s law of natural selection. Michael […]
Better Breed Of Hedge Funds To Emerge
As hedge fund titans face an intense grilling by congressional committees and thousands of hedge funds around the world close their doors, perhaps it is time to consider a new approach. A hedge fund structure offers investors many advantages such […]
London Hedge Fund Alley Rents Drop for First Time Since 2005
Bloomberg – Office rents in Mayfair and St. James’s, the London districts with Europe’s biggest concentration of hedge funds, are falling for the first time since 2005 as the alternative investment industry has its worst year in two decades. The […]
Triple A seeds new hedge fund by Hong Kong’s EIP
Reuters HK – Triple A Partners, an alternative fund firm specialising in seeding new managers, said on Tuesday it would invest an initial $20 million in a new hedge fund launched by Hong Kong’s Enhanced Investment Products Ltd. Triple A, […]
Hedge Funds May Fall to $1 Trillion by Mid-2009, Citigroup Says
Bloomberg – Hedge-fund assets may fall to about $1 trillion by the middle of next year, a decline of almost 50 percent from their peak in June, because of market losses and client withdrawals, Citigroup Inc. said in a report. […]
Obama adviser lobbied to protect Fannie
The Washington Times – A transition adviser to President-elect Barack Obama earned millions of dollars overseeing an office that led a lobbying effort to prevent increased oversight of mortgage giant Fannie Mae, the company at the heart of the ongoing […]
CDS protection buyers on Lehman to get their cash
Reuters – Investors who bought protection against a Lehman Brothers default in the credit default swaps market have little to worry about getting paid on Tuesday, when an estimated $8 billion in cash payments on Lehman CDS come due. While […]
Shariah energy fund sees scope to reach $500 mln
Reuters Dubai – The outlook for investments in the oil and gas industry remains healthy as demand growth from emerging economies is expected to recover, a co-manager of a shariah compliant oil and gas hedge fund said. "There is constant […]
BNP Paribas Wins Prime Brokerage Business With Hedge Fund CQS
Bloomberg – BNP Paribas SA, France’s biggest bank, won prime brokerage business in Asia with hedge fund CQS (U.K.) LLP as it seeks to lure clients in the region from rivals. The new contract with CQS, a London-based hedge fund […]
Hedge fund exec seeks additions to vast estate
Norwalk Advocate – Hedge fund manager Steven Cohen is no stranger to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The panel has approved many additions to his Crown Lane estate since he bought it in 1998 for $14 million. The founder of […]
See acceleration in outflows from hedge funds
EPFR – Moneycontrol.com – Brad Durham, Managing Director of EPFR said there could be some acceleration in outflows from hedge funds. He added that India funds saw USD 24 million of inflows and that recently, outflows from some EMs (emerging markets) have tamed. […]