Tag Archives: commodity
Liongate Seeks $500 Million for Commodity Fund of Hedge Funds
Bloomberg – Liongate Capital Management LLP, a London-based firm managing $2.2 billion, plans to raise $500 million for a fund of commodity hedge funds. The Liongate Commodities Fund returned about 0.1 percent last year and 0.3 percent in January, when […]
Hedge fund head says times right for global macro
Reuters – In a period when volatile markets battered most hedge funds, global macro funds are proving their worth, Graham Capital Chairman Kenneth Tropin told Reuters. During one of the hedge fund industry’s worst years, Graham delivered gains of up […]
Investors play safe, park funds in gold
Economic Times – Gold, the traditional safe haven in times of economic turmoil, proved to be more a commodity that everyone loved to hate last year even amid the turbulence that engulfed world markets. But as 2009 gets under way the […]
Recovery should start by H2 FY10 post polls: Samir Arora
Moneycontrol.com – Samir Arora, Fund Manager, Helios Capital, said the markets are too volatile to predict yet, but we may be close to the bottom. "The fall in markets may be getting over, but it may take months to recover. […]
The Financial Page Greasing the Slide
New Yorker – “Death by a thousand cuts.” “Fire-sale liquidation.” “A vortex of selling.” No matter how people described the market collapse that hit a month ago, the message was the same: it felt like there was nowhere to go […]
Hedge Funds: How the Smart Money Looked Dumb
TIMES – The ups and downs of the Dow are making Wall Street’s so-called "smart money" look dopey. Hedge funds lost nearly $300 billion due to bad investments in the first nine months of the year, according to an analysis […]
