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Rich pickings ahead for hedge fund survivors
Financial Times – It is becoming clear that the hedge fund universe is set to shrink. The most obvious casualties will be highly levered funds, in particular the strategies that cannot justify their fees without that level of leverage, such […]
New European Hedge Fund Association Launch Underway
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Preparations are underway for the creation of a new European hedge fund association, hedgemeetings.com, which has the objective to communicate the public utility of this industry for wealth creation and risk management. A first meeting […]
Real Hedge Funds Don’t Need a Bull Market to Make Money
Seeking Alpha – Risk management Rule No.1: if it can happen then it will happen. Hope for the best but plan for the worst. Recent events have provided good returns for some hedge funds, hard times for other hedge funds […]
Iraqi Funds: “Business as Usual”
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Iraq and the Babylon Fund sailed fairly unscathed through the panicky financial markets in September, according to CEO Robert Torkelund. “Our strategy to focus on sticky money instead of any cheap hot money flow, has […]
Man Group year profit surges 60%
Reuters- Man Group, the world’s biggest listed hedge fund company, posted a 60 percent rise in annual profit on Thursday, riding turbulent financial markets to show strong growth in funds under management which fuelled record management fees. Chief Executive Peter […]
‘130/30’ funds come up short of long-only peers
Baltimore Sun- Mutual fund companies come up with "new ideas" all the time, but most don’t gain any traction. So when Fidelity Investments joined the latest trend this month and opened a "130/30 fund," it signaled that the newest fad […]
