Tag Archives: portfolios
SEC Charges Hennessee On Bayou Hedge Fund Miss
Post Chronicle – U.S. securities regulators charged a prominent hedge fund industry executive on Wednesday with failing to properly review collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group before recommending that their clients invest. Hennessee Group and its principal Charles Gradante, who runs […]
DragonBack Reopens Fund to Investors as Redemptions Cut Assets
Bloomberg – DragonBack Capital Ltd., a Hong Kong-based manager co-founded by a former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. executive, reopened its flagship hedge fund to investors after redemptions cut assets in the fund. Assets in the Asia-Pacific Equity Multistrategy Fund fell […]
Hedge Fund Managers With Largest Portfolios Face EU Regulation
Bloomberg – Hedge fund managers who run the largest 15 percent of portfolios in the European Union would have to report risks, debts and trading activities to regulators under a draft proposal to tighten oversight after the financial crisis. The […]
Hedge Funds Increase 1.37% In March
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – March was a challenging month for hedge funds, which entered the month with tight net exposures, according to research by hedge fund consultant Hennessee LLC. Technology and healthcare/biotech were bright spots for hedge funds, as […]
Pensions seen fuelling hedge fund industry growth
Reuters – Pension funds will likely funnel more money into hedge funds and become a powerful engine of growth for the industry in the coming months, a hedge fund industry veteran said on Wednesday. "We are finding that corporate pension […]
Funds Of Funds Hit Hard by Economic Downturn
CNBC – Hedge funds of funds, the middlemen that pension funds and endowments often use to create alternative portfolios, lost roughly one-third of their assets last year, according to new data released Tuesday. The industry’s largest funds of funds, managing […]
A Hedge Fund Managers Mutual Twist
CNNMoney.com – In what looks like a sign of the hard times in the hedge fund world, AQR Capital Management – one of the industry’s biggest names – is opening its doors to the retail market. In January, the investment […]
Wealthy wary of putting new money in hedge funds
Reuters – Millionaires who long put money with hedge funds are now skittish about adding fresh cash after these loosely regulated portfolios posted record losses last year, a top industry executive said on Thursday. "We have probably seen the worst […]