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Puerto Rico Misses Debt Payment
New York (HedgeCo.net) – It seemed like it was only a matter of time, but it finally happened on Saturday—Puerto Rico missed a bond payment. The island U.S. commonwealth of 3.5 million people has been in negotiations with hedge funds […]
AQR Capital in Greenwich offers new mutual funds
Stamford Advocate – With a new regulatory regime hanging over the industry’s head and a field of shellshocked investors looking for safety, it may seem that hedge fund managers are poised to make a rush into the mutual fund arena. […]
AQR Capital in Greenwich offers new mutual funds
Greenwich Time – With a new regulatory regime hanging over the industry’s head and a field of shellshocked investors looking for safety, it may seem that hedge fund managers are poised to make a rush into the mutual fund arena. […]
J.Michael Miller To Develop Bandon’s Intermediary Market, Flagship Hedge Fund Anniversary
HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Alternative investment management company, Bandon Capital Management, LLC, has hired J. Michael Miller as Managing Director responsible for the development and management of the financial intermediary market. Miller has over 25 years of experience in […]
Can hedge funds be synthetically replicated?
Morningstar – A new breed of clone funds seeks to capture "alternative beta." It wasn’t long ago that hedge funds were on the very cutting edge of finance. Their pitch was simple: they could deliver pure alpha , rather than […]
Opalesque Exclusive: Review of hedge fund launches, closures, indices, trends, regulatory and legal events – week 21
Opalesque – Last week, we heard of fund launches from Galena (energy); Verulam (commodity); Twin Tree; Paulson & Co (distressed property); Abax (Asia macro); Odey (Ucits III); Pictet (agriculture); and Liontrust (European). The Canadian Hedge Watch Hedge Fund Composite Index […]
First Quarter Hedge Fund Report: Summary
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge funds took modest advantage of March’s upswings in the global equity and credit markets, according to Morningstar’s hedge fund performance summary for the first quarter of 2009. Equity markets around the world significantly rebounded […]
Absolute-Return Funds Promise the Holy Grail
Bloomberg – Gather round, children, to hear about the investments you’ve been waiting for. They suggest that you might get positive returns in any economic climate, regardless of whether stocks are going up or down. Wait — don’t run! It’s […]
Hedge Funds Hold Up in January
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Morningstar reported a summary of hedge fund performance for January 2009 as well as asset flows for 2008. As stocks and government bonds got clobbered in January, hedge funds held up relatively well, the report […]
Delivery on ‘absolute’ promise is relative
Lexington Herald-Leader – When does "absolute" imply something that in reality is far less than certain? When it comes to "absolute return funds." That’s the label mutual fund companies have put on hedge fund-style products that they’ve been rolling out […]
