Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Henderson backs Cartesian UK Opportunities
LONDON (Reuters) – The fund of funds team at Henderson told Reuters it has invested in the Cartesian UK Opportunities fund, a portfolio run by a Resolution Asset Management-backed boutique fund firm. Cartesian Capital Partners was set up last year […]
Profits Drop When Hedge Funds Get Involved
Hedge funds increasingly are pressuring executives to either shape things up or ship out, but a new study suggests their demands aren’t doing much to improve the financial health of the companies they target. Researchers at New York University concluded […]
Hardball hedge-fund tactics bad news for investors
NEW YORK – Hedge funds are known for playing hardball to boost their returns, and now they’re using those tactics on companies caught in the stock-option scandal. Many of those companies – which include names such as Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., […]
More Leverage Won’t Add Balance
If a hundred experts were asked to identify the 25 things that need fixing in the U.S. economy today, I doubt that increasing the amount of borrowed money available to hedge funds would be on any list. After all, we’ve […]
CONIFER SECURITIES NAMES MARKOWITZ AS PARTNER
HedgeCo.net – – SAN FRANCISCO, November 1, 2006 – Conifer Securities, LLC, a leading provider of business and operations solutions to hedge fund managers, family offices, foundations andendowments, today announced that Jerry Markowitz has joined as a Partner in New […]
Family Office Backs New Firm and Its Innovative First Fund
HedgeCo.net – Combining emerging hedge fund exposure with the experience of seasoned investment professionals, London-based fund-of-early-stage-hedge-funds manager, Hedge Funds Investment ManagementLtd, which is backed by the pioneering Dr. Nick Dhandsa’s family office, will launch the HFIM Multi-Strategy Fund in December […]
HedgeOp Compliance, LLC Joins with Chief Compliance Officers to Form the Alternative Investments Compliance Association
New York, New York– November 1, 2006 – HedgeOp Compliance LLC, a leading provider of specialized products and services to the hedge fund community, and Chief Compliance Officers from several prominent alternative investment firms announced today the formation of the […]
NorthPoint Trading Partners LLC, has today announced connectivity with Pipeline Trading Systems
HedgeCo.net — ATLANTA, GA (PRWEB) November 1, 2006 — NorthPoint Trading Partners LLC, a premier prime brokerage and fund services company, has today announced connectivity with PipelineTrading Systems, an anonymous and secure block trading venue. This connection provides NorthPoint Trading […]
Senior hedge fund exec to leave Lehman unit
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Jolyne Caruso, among the most senior women executives in the hedge fund industry, is leaving Lehman Brothers as global head of its Absolute Return Strategies business by the end of the year, a Lehman […]
Quest for next Rooney lures hedge funds to soccer
Hedge funds have invested in wine, whiskey and movies in pursuit of returns that outpace stocks and bonds. Now they’re taking on an even riskier bet – the search for soccer’s next Wayne Rooney. For $470,000, investors will have the […]
Is it really “diworsification�
Some prominent voices have maintained that there is a point in a hedge fund portfolio, where additional diversification turns from an improvement of the risk/return characteristics into a worsening. Francois-Serge Lhabitant recently referred to this process as “diworsificationâ€Â. There is […]
Dave Kelly Entertainment Signs Deal to Exclusively Rep Cinema
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dave Kelly Entertainment company has been retained as the exclusive financial advisors to the Cinema Finance Group, a private international fund representing investors from London, Zurich, Monaco and Dubai, and its newly created Entertainment Investment Fund, capped […]