Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
China Beats Japan As Asia’s Top Hedge Fund Destination
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- According to Alpha Magazine’s list of the region’s biggest single-manager hedge funds, investors are rushing into China to capitalize on the country’s soaring equity market, and Asia’s native hedge funds are cashing in on the action. Tokyo-based […]
AIMA Responds To IOSCO Fund Of Hedge Funds Consultaion Paper
London 30th July 2007. The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the leading global hedge fund and alternative investment industry association, has responded to the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Consultation Report “Call for Views on Issues that could be […]
The SEC Gave Final Regulatory Approval
The Securities and Exchange Commission today gave final regulatory approval related to the consolidation of the member firm regulatory functions of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and NYSE Regulation, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange […]
Tannenbaum Helpern Names Kenneth M. Block As Partner
HedgeCo.net – NEW YORK (July 31, 2007)-Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP announced today that Kenneth M. Block has joined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate, Construction and Environmental Practice in New York. He joins from Thelen […]
Altis Partners Taps Horizon For Cash Management Services
HedgeCo.net -CHICAGO, July 31, 2007 – Horizon Cash Management LLC, a leading cash manager for alternative investment funds, announced today that Altis Partners (Jersey) Ltd. has chosen the firm toprovide comprehensive cash management solutions. Altis is based in Jersey, Channel […]
Short sellers bank on financial sector ETF
Marketwatch – Professional money managers and hedge funds have ramped up short positions in a popular exchange-traded fund tracking the financial-services sector as investors grow increasingly concerned about credit quality, interest rates and slowing corporate profits. Those moves looked prescient […]
Hedge funds focus on asset growth
Financial News Online US- Two more of the world’s best performing hedge fund managers have reopened their funds for the first time in years as the industry switches fromgenerating high returns to gathering assets. Tudor Investment Corporation, with net returns […]
Study Finds Flight Of SEC-Registered Hedge Fund Advisors
Dow Jones- After years of solid gains, the number of new federally-registered investment advisors rose just 1.5% in 2007, reflecting flight by hedge-fund advisors no longer subject to oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a study to […]
Belfast Hedge Fund Arm Launch
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- At an event last week in Belfast, chief executive of the Bank of Ireland, Brian Goggin, announced plans to establish a specialist hedge fund administration business in Belfast that will create 149 new jobs in the […]
Investment banks raising margin requirements on lending to hedge funds
Forbes – LONDON (Thomson Financial)- Investment banks are responding to rising credit concerns by imposing tougher lending terms on hedge funds, the Financial Times reported. Prime brokerage departments at several investment banks have raised their margin requirements for certain hedge […]
Top 25 U.S. Hedge Fund Foundations Reach $3.52 Billion
HedgeCo.net – New York, July 30, 2007 – Assets in the Absolute Return Top 25 U.S. Hedge Fund Foundations have ballooned to $3.52 billion, according to an analysis of recent tax filings by Absolute Return magazine. That’s a 76.8% increase […]
Hedge fund, pipeline owner fixed gas prices, FERC alleges
Los Angeles Times- U.S. regulators on Thursday charged defunct hedge fund Amaranth Advisors and pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners with manipulating natural gas markets and proposed $458million in penalties. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in its first enforcement action using […]