Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
100 Women in Hedge Funds Awards
100 Women in Hedge Funds is today presenting their 5th Anniversary event, Raising Capital: Keys to success and new trends in the industry, in Stamford, CT. The event is hosted by UBS Investment Bank and All Bar None. The speaker, […]
Reserve Liquid Performance – highest yielding Prime Money market fund
HedgeCo.net – NEW YORK, May 1, 2007 – The Reserve, the leading innovator in cash management, announced that its Liquid Performance Fund was ranked the highest yielding prime money market fund by Crane Data, as of 3/31/07.* “As hedge funds, […]
Japanese regulator to monitor hedge funds
Reuters.uk – Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) said on Tuesday it will begin monitoring hedge funds operating in Japan, seeking to ward off potential turmoil in financial markets. The regulator will ask hedge funds filing with it from around September […]
Morningstar expands hedge funds survey – Reuters.uk
Reuters- Morningstar Inc., which has already nearly doubled the number of hedge funds it tracks, wants to grow in the hedge fund industry, an executive at the well-known mutual fund rankings firmsaid on Monday. Chicago-based Morningstar, which developed a star […]
Sarkozy turns on ‘predator’ hedge funds
Telegraph.com.UK- If there is one thing that unites both candidates in France’s presidential run-off this Sunday, it is a shared belief that Anglo Saxon hedge funds are the great villains of modern civilisation. Nicolas Sarkozy, the neo-Gaullist favourite, has […]
Daido Life expands hedge stake
Tokyo – Daido Life Insurance, a unit of Japan’s only publicly traded life insurer, will increase investment in hedge funds and private equity by as much as Â¥50 billion, or $420 million, in the fiscal year that started April 1. […]
Dresdner Kleinwort Announces New Head for US based Hedge Funds
HedgeCo.net -Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment banking division of Dresdner Bank AG announced the appointment of Chris Baildon as Head of Equities Distribution for US based Hedge Funds. Baildon joins as a Managing Director and will report to Mark Small, Head […]
Sal. Oppenheim To Launch Spin-Off Hedge Fund
HedgeCo.net – Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Cie, one of Europe’s largest private banks is moving towards alternative investments and hedge funds. Oppenheim said it wants to spin off a hedge fund from itsproprietary trading book. The bank will seed the […]
Opening doors to closed hedge funds
Call it the Groucho Marx problem: Investors trying to put money into hedge funds frequently find that the managers they want do not want their cash. Just as Groucho complained that he would not join any club that would accept […]
Hedge funds gain popularity as investors reap returns
Years ago, the New York Times famously referred to financial instruments used by hedge funds as “exotic and risky.” Today, hedge funds have truly emerged as a legitimate and increasingly stableinvestment vehicle. The hedge fund industry has exploded in size […]
Hedge Fund Ritchie Capital To Sell Flagship Fund
HedgeCo.net – Hedge Fund Ritchie Capital Management, as part of a liquidation plan, is selling a significant portion of its assets in its Multi-Strategy Fund for $1 billion to New York City-basedReservoir Capital Group. Ritchie Capital, which oversees about $2.8 […]
Shortsighted hedge funds feel heat
Mumbai – Hedge funds are running scared of governor YV Reddy. It is not because he is an inflation hawk. It is because his ‘no-surprises’ credit policy resulted in such a positive jump in thestock market that many hedge funds […]