Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
Hedge Funds: Got Kleenex?
New York – Get your hankies ready: Hedge funds feel they’re the newest victims. A long-simmering issue may soon come to a boil, potentially putting Wall Street’s largest firms on the hook for billions more in liabilities years after the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Portus ignored warning
National Post – The two men behind the Portus group of funds were advised in early 2004 to stop accepting money from investors, long before the money manager’s collapse left 26,000 investors fearingthat $800-million of their funds might be gone. […]
New hedge fund sees more M&A potential in Europe
Reuters Italia – Platinum Capital Management has launched a hedge fund to focus on European, mainly French, stocks which could benefit from takeover and demerger activity, its managing director saidon Tuesday. The launch comes at a time when corporate activity […]
Dearth of talent may hit global macro hedge funds
Reuters.uk – Investors are raising their exposure to global macro hedge funds because of their potential to make money in volatile markets, but a dearth of talent in the sector means that returnscould disappoint. Global macro hedge funds take directional […]
Commodity Price Boom to Continue
Black Enterprise – EXPERTS are predicting that an unprecedented commodity price boom that has seen metal, energy and some agricultural prices – including orange juice and refined sugar – hit recordhighs, is set to continue. Copper yesterday rose to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]