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Activists take Aim on property funds
Investors Chronicle – Activist investor Laxey has sunk its claws into yet another Aim-traded overseas property fund. Having built up a 9 per cent stake in Indian township developer Hirco, it wrote to management this week demanding they take action […]
Experts differ on effect of short-selling ban
USA Today – Markets braced for Wednesday night’s scheduled expiration of the ban on short sales of more than 900 financial stocks, as investment analysts and advisers gave differing predictions on the potential impact. The emergency ban is set to […]
Mitsubishi Asset Brains Plans to Start a Fund of Hedge Funds
Bloomberg- Mitsubishi Asset Brains Co., an investment advisory firm of the Mitsubishi financial group, plans to start a fund of hedge funds as it seeks to invest in managers that can make money in falling markets. The company aims to […]
Hedge funds prove slow to adopt best-practice valuation
Wealth Bulletin- In January, 14 of the UK’s largest hedge funds, including Man Group, Brevan Howard and Gartmore, backed the Hedge Fund Working Group’s best-practice standards. These aim to improve governance and disclosure and to promote transparent and independent valuation. […]
Info War: Turning The Regulators Back Against The Hedge Funds
DealBreaker.Com- If your memory stretches past last summer, you might recall that before the current debacle settled on Wall Street there was a lot of sound and fury raised about hedge funds. The rise of hedge funds was said to […]
Hedge fund fraud cover offered
Financial Times- When hedge fund manager and convicted fraudster Samuel Israel III disappeared this month, leaving nothing but the message "suicide is painless" scrawled in the dust on his car, you can be sure his life assurer did not pay […]