Monthly Archives: April 2006
Hedge Fund Report: Private Equity
Street.Com – Private equity firms continue to stage landings on the hedge fund beachhead. Following the lead of Texas Pacific and more recently Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, theBlackstone Group announced the creation of a new hedge fund that will focus on […]
Hedge fund gains hit 2 1/2-year high in first quarter
MarketWatch – Hedge funds had their best quarter in two and a half years during the first three months of 2006, as emerging-market and technology strategies gained more than 10%, Hedge Fund Researchsaid Monday. The HFR Fund Weighted Composite Index […]
Indexchange with new licenses for Asia Pacific Select Dividend
HedgeCo.Net – Indexchange, the German investment company that specializes in exchange-traded funds, has signed a licensing agreement with Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Ltd. and SAM Group to issuefinancial products on the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select Dividend 30 Index, the Dow […]
March 2006 Performance Review of the DOW Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks
A monthly report from Dow Jones Indexes on the performance of the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks HedgeCo.Net – All six hedge fund strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes ended the first quarter of 2006 posting net-of-fees […]
Arcelor woos the hedge funds
Around 30 per cent of Arcelor, the Luxembourg-based steel company defending itself against a hostile $24.4bn (£14bn) cash and shares bid from Mittal Steel, is now owned by hedge funds, it emerged last week. The revelation means that hedge funds, […]
Big Funds Take a Flier
Since big mutual fund firms like Fidelity and Vanguard own pretty much everything, it’s not surprising that they’re major investors in the notoriously unrewarding airline industry. However, there are also a few less likely names on the lists of the […]
An entertaining tale of hedge funds
Like many once-abstract concepts rapidly becoming reality, “globalism” may move too fast for most people to get a good grasp of how it’s progressing and why. But the folks at the McKinsey Quarterly have done a good job of lending […]
Nervousness among hedge funds? copper watchers
The “super spike†in copper prices has baffled metal watchers and caused consternation among the big copper consumers. It has also been enormously profitable for a handful of hedge funds. The price of copper, up fourfold since November 2001, has […]
EU body warns of risks from hedge funds
VIENNA (Reuters) – Hedge funds could offer a systemic risk for European Union financial stability and regulators should closely monitor the exposure of the bloc’s banking system to that risk, according to a report from an EU body. The Economic […]
Hedge Funds for the Masses
QUESTION: How can an average person invest in a hedge fund? It seems that if you’re not an institutional investor or you don’t have $1 million to invest, you’re out of luck. I thinkthat’s not fair. How can a “little” […]
Argentina-based Copernico downsizes hedge fund
LONDON, April 6 (Reuters) – Argentina-based Copernico Capital Partners said on Friday it will pay investors a dividend to reduce the size of one of its hedge funds because profit opportunities are not as common as they were. Copernico’s Argentina […]
Armstrong debunks low-risk FoF myth
LONDON (Citywire) – Research by Insight Investments’ multi-manager Patrick Armstrong challenges the commonly held perception that the inbuilt diversification from fund of funds (FoFs) offers investors good returns at a lower risk than funds that hold stock directly. Armstrong, who […]