Monthly Archives: March 2007
TABB Group Expands Research Analyst and Client Coverage Teams
TABB Group, the financial markets research, advisory and crisis management firm with offices in New York, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. announced today the addition of two research analysts and a sales director to meet current customer demands and position the […]
Yorkville Hires Private Placement Veteran
HedgeCo.net –JERSEY CITY, NJ, March 26, 2007 – Yorkville Advisors, LLC, a firm engaged in providing structured equity financing solutions to growing companies worldwide, today announced that it has hired Richard Brand to the position of Managing Director and Jeff […]
Yorkville Hires Venture Tech Investment Veteran
HedgeCo.net — JERSEY CITY, NJ, – Yorkville Advisors, LLC, a firm engaged in providing structured equity financing solutions to growing companies worldwide, today announced that it has hired Michael J. Nowak as a Managing Director in its burgeoning Technology Investment […]
How to Beat Hedge-Fund Bullies, Part 2
CFO.com — Considering how much havoc activist hedge funds can wreak on the best-laid corporate plans and the careers of senior management, finance chiefs would do well to be on high alert when such investors gain power in their companies, […]
Hedge-fund strategies affect average investors
Baltimore Sun — Aggressive and secretive, hedge funds employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid of risk. Now, some of those strategies are trickling down to investments used by average investors. The hedge […]
S&P highlights diversification benefits of funds of hedge funds – Easier
Easier Finance – Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has warned about some of the risks of direct investment in hedge funds, thrown into sharp relief by the collapse of multi-strategy hedge fundAmaranth Advisors last September. “Perhaps the most critical lesson […]
Parker Global Launches Energy & Global Natural Resources Fund
HedgeCo.net — STAMFORD, CT, March 26, 2007 * Parker Global Strategies (PGS) today announced the launch of their first energy and natural resources fund-of-funds — PGS Global Energy Edge in responseto investor demand. The sector focused fund has initially invested […]
Hedge Funds And Private Equity Funds Are Good For Financial Markets
Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, said Thursday that both hedge funds and private equity funds are good for financial markets, dismissing recent attacks on thesectors. Speaking at a U.K. House of Commons all party parliamentary group […]
Tigue seeks hedge fund diversification for F&C trust
London – Jeremy Tigue has begun moving his talismanic Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust into the realm of hedge funds in a bid to diversify the global growth vehicle. The first steps have been taken, with purchases of Amsterdam-listed MW […]
Londinium Emerging Markets Fund Of Hedge Fund Launch
HedgeCo.net – Redi & Partners has announced the launch of its first fund of emerging markets hedge fund, the Londinium JPM Emerging Market Fund by investment manager JPMorgan. The Londinium JPM Emerging Markets Fund was created after a six months […]
European Hedge Fund Awards
HedgeCo.net – At the inaugural Who’s Who of European Hedge Fund Lawyers awards dinner, BISYS Alternative Investment Services, received the Best Single / Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund Administrator award. This ceremony celebrated the leading service providers in the European hedge fund […]
Study Shows Institutional Investors are Comfortable With Hedge Fund Investing
HedgeCo.net – State Street Corporation released its third institutional investor hedge fund study, the study was conducted late last year in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return Congress. According to the study, more than half of respondents indicated that […]