Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Year 2015: Trends Favor the Investor as Technology & Transparency Level Wall Street’s Playing Field
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Insiders are forecasting a fully connected and transformed financial markets industry by 2015, as three rapidly emerging forces combine to create a rate of changeunseen since the 1970s. And, in a notable new twist, […]
Hedge funds – an alternative asset class to offset volatility
Reporting is all about absolute return these days, which is no surprise to most small investors. While all the chart comparisons of risk, return, and performance are compared to some benchmark, what the client really wants to know is one […]
DOW Jones Indexes Further Expands its European Country Select Dividend Index Series
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Europe Country Select Dividend Indexes for France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. These indexes further […]
Floyd Norris: How real are results from hedge funds?
International Herald Tribune – For those who favor open markets and open investment management, it may look like the best of times. But it may really be the worst, and we may not learn just how badit is until something […]
Goldman gurus strike it rich with hedge fund
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – In early 1997, Mark Carhart was an academic at the University of Southern California. His big claim to fame was his doctorate work at the University of Chicago onmutual-fund performance. Today, the 40-year-old Mr. Carhart and another […]
Trader death knell sounds
Globe and Mail – Traders, advisers and fund managers  the middle men that stand between investors and their money  are a becoming a dying breed as massive changes brought on by the need for speedand transparency sweep through […]
SEC filings show Boston is a leader in hedge funds
Boston Globe – New federal filings show that Massachusetts financial firms help manage more than $150 billion in hedge funds and other private investments, about 10 percent of the $1.5 trillion that the Securities and Exchange Commission estimates is held […]
Jockey Club, Hong Kong’s Gambling Monopoly, Bets on Hedge Funds
Bloomberg – The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Chinese territory’s only legal gambling forum, is raising its bets on hedge funds. The club, which leads investing trends in Hong Kong, has amassed $164 million in the loosely regulated funds since […]
Hedge Funds Collect over $24 Billion in Q1 2006
HedgeCo.Net – Reversing a small decline in the fourth quarter of 2005, hedge funds saw inflows totaling $24.04 billion, or 2.17 percent, in the first quarter of 2006, according to data released today by Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR), the […]
Cazenove to Launch Equity Hedge Fund
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Cazenove Capital Management is preparing to launch a new equity hedge fund on May 31, 2006. The hedge fund is to be managed by investment specialist Tim Love who has over 20 years of […]
Alissa Grad joins High Profile Hedge Fund Lineup
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) – Alissa Grad has become part of multi-billion dollar hedge fund; D.B. Zwirn & Co. as the Director of Marketing and Investor Relations. The hedge fund has attracted other high profile figures such as Sandy […]
Funds of hedge funds need new tools
Scotsman – Fund of hedge fund firms will have to be more creative about the products they offer to survive in an overcrowded sector, said Bill Maldonado, head of alternative investments at HSBC Halbis Partners. Funds of hedge funds invest […]