Monthly Archives: January 2014
Great year for bread and butter strategies on Wall Street
UPI – Bread-and-butter mutual funds beat the bells-and-whistles hedge fund portfolios on Wall Street this year, data show. They may be drab, but the basic, across-the-board stocks handily out-performed those complex bets that hedge funds can’t seem to get enough […]
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Investment Europe – Projections from S&P Dow Jones Indices suggest that if current trends continue, then the total amount of capital invested in ETFs will overtake the total invested in hedge funds in 2014. Tim Edwards, director of Index Investment […]
Hedge fund adds parks to portfolio
Yorkshire Post – James Caird Asset Management (JCAM), the hedge fund founded by City trader and racehorse owner Tim Leslie, has acquired business parks in Leeds and Birmingham after agreeing a £43m funding facility with Royal Bank of Scotland. A […]
Cohen’s SAC Capital hedge fund gains 20% for year: Source
CNBC – Billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors returned 20.1 percent this year, delivering some of the industry’s best returns, even as his hedge fund pleaded guilty to insider trading charges and prepared to return outside capital. The […]
Once Thought Unlikely, MF Global Accord Goes Before U.S. Judge
Reuters – A year ago, the bankruptcy of MF Global, the collapsed brokerage run by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, seemed like it would be a long and messy affair involving plenty of courtroom drama around the world. But that […]
MAN Seeds Japan Focused Hedge Fund
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – FRM Capital Advisors, the seeding division of FRM, Man Group plc’s fund of hedge fund division, has entered into a strategic relationship with a Japan focused hedge fund. FCA will make a significant investment in a fund launched […]
Hedge fund managers say investors are constantly faced with information overload
Opalesque – Investors are faced with the constant problem of information overload and bombarded with incessant inflow of short term information that influences their long term perspective, declared Mark Levas, the Founder and Senior Managing Principal of the Olympian Group […]
Hedge funds seek day in court with IBRC
Irish Times – Two Cayman Island hedge funds have appealed a US court ruling that State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation can avail of sovereign immunity to avoid being sued in the US by bond holders who lost money in its […]
Cayman Islands aims to enhance hedge fund transparency
FierceFinance – The global push for more transparency in financial services has reached the small tax-advantaged havens that hedge funds and other investment vehicles depend on for favorable tax treatment. The Cayman Islands has joined Jersey, the Isle of Man, the […]
It’s Pensioners on the Side of Hedge Funds Making Their Case Against Argentina
DealBook – Maria Teresa Muñoz, a retired secretary from Buenos Aires, has something in common with Paul E. Singer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who is suing Argentina’s government. They are both “holdouts” — the term given to owners of […]
MarksJarvis: ‘Just trust me’ allure of hedge funds gives way to ‘buyer beware’
Chicago Tribune – Wealthy investors who thought a few years ago that brainy hedge fund managers would show them the money have shed their rose-colored glasses. Individuals are no longer enamored with the funds, and for good reason. Last year, […]
Hedge Fund Founder Warren Buffett On Women In Investing
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund founder and investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett had a few words to say about women in investing over at UK newspaper The Telegraph. “As fears grow that the United States is preparing to plunge over the […]