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Barclays sees $50 billion hedge fund inflows this year
Reuters – Improving markets and a need to recoup 2008 losses will prompt investors to pour $50 billion (30 billion pounds) into hedge funds this year and slow redemptions, Barclays Capital said in a report on Tuesday. More than 300 […]
Hedge funds take aim at Florida real estate
Tampa Bay Online – Some consider them good capitalists. Others see them as opportunists. Still others call them vultures. Whatever the name, hedge fund investors likely will be major players in Florida real estate in the next few years, buying […]
Sears hedge fund guru a stranger to ‘richest’ list he once headed
Chicago Sun-Times – Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman and hedge-fund guru Edward S. Lampert failed for the fourth year to make a list he once topped — the richest hedge-fund managers in the nation. Lampert, who takes no salary from the […]
Hedge fund sheds Sonesta shares
Bizjournals.com – After watching Sonesta International Hotels Corp. lose roughly 70 percent of its stock market value over the past 18 months, a Connecticut hedge fund has shed roughly a third of its holdings in the Massachusetts-based hotel operator. In […]
House panel discusses hedge funds
The Money Times – A U.S. House committee Thursday reviewed hedge funds, which the panel’s chair called "virtually unregulated." Because they aren’t required to report on their holdings, leverage or strategies, "hedge funds are virtually unregulated," said Rep. Henry Waxman, […]
